NY Times: Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions, Abuse of Medications
Please see this article in the New York Times for the story of a young man who was prescribed stimulants by psychiatrists, despite his parents’ repeated warnings of their son’s abuse of the medication and repeated psychotic symptoms, until the patient committed suicide: Drowned in Prescriptions Prescription medications can often cause addiction. Often a psychiatrist […]
Clinical Tip #5 – Prevention of Relapse in Mental Illness
Clinical Tip #5: Life is a dynamically changing process, and just as health can improve, it can also deteriorate. Relapsing after a period of wellness happens when the amount of energy for maintaining health and well-being has been depleted so completely that there is no longer a way for the person to keep functioning adequately, […]
Clinical Tip #4 – Energy Medicine is Indispensable in Healing
When it comes to eliminating the most difficult symptoms, such as psychosis in schizophrenia, I find that supplements and diet alone is insufficient to do the amount of work required to help a patient heal completely. What is necessary is the integrative use of energy medicine: meditative techniques, using intention and visualization, and the use […]
Food as Medicine: Applying an Old Adage in a New Way
As Mark Hyman succinctly stated in his concluding statement at the Food As Medicine conference at Bethesda, Maryland (June, 2012), “It’s not ‘Food As Medicine.’ It’s ‘Food IsMedicine’.” As a physician, I was taught to rely on prescription, pharmaceutical medications. I made a big leap of faith when I changed my paradigm and began using […]
Clinical Tip #3 – Gentle Detoxification and Its Importance in Medication Withdrawal
Although I have known for many years that detoxification was critically important in helping to create a smooth medication withdrawal, I was faced with the problem of finding a detoxification approach that would be gentle enough for my patients. Many approaches were too strong and caused my patients to feel worse. CLINICAL TIP: Recently I […]
The Simple Idea That Is Transforming Health Care (WSJ article, April 18, 2012)
The Wall Street Journal wrote an article called “The Simple Idea That is Transforming Health Care. I like simple ideas, so I read the article. The simple idea is about clinicians asking patients how their health is affecting their quality of life. Imagine that. One patient in the article had severe asthma for over 25 […]
Clinical Tip #2 – Critical Glandular Support During Psychiatric Treatment
Glandular support is very important during psychiatric recovery. Adrenal fatigue is well documented, but in my clinical experience, there are actually five glands that are fatigued and challenged during medication withdrawal and psychiatric recovery. They are: pineal gland, parotid, liver, spleen, and adrenals. CLINICAL TIP: From clinical experience, and from information obtained through applied kinesiology, […]
Clinical Tip #1 – Critical Supplements During Antipsychotic Medication Withdrawal
Starting today, I’ve decided to leave short clinical tips on medication withdrawal that I hope will be helpful for people to know. Some will be on the process of withdrawal and some will be on the content of withdrawal. I hope that you will return to my website often to look for the latest clinical tip! CLINICAL […]
Doctors Say Vitamins are Safe and Effective
(OMNS, March 13, 2012) The news media proclaim that taking vitamin supplements is of no value and, somehow, actually dangerous. You have heard an earful from reporters. Now let’s hear from doctors. Michael Janson, M.D.: The standard American diet does not provide even the RDA. Two-thirds of all meals are eaten outside the home, and […]
The Simple ABC’s of Antidepressant Withdrawal
Antidepressant withdrawal is both complicated and simple. It was complicated when I first started in holistic psychiatry and didn’t know some of the nuances of antidepressant withdrawal, but now that I have gathered enough information to know the most important aspects of antidepressant withdrawal, it has become more straightforward. Well, as straightforward as a complicated […]