SJD PSYCH

Blog Posts and Discussions

The song says "...suicide is painless..."

...but for whom? Suicide has been on my mind for a while now. The rate has been going up steadily for decades. Physicians and nurses are...

Estrangement

I just read an interesting book, Shadow Daughter: A Memoir of Estrangement, by Harriet Brown. Ms. Brown presents individuals who have had...

Thank you for leaving the seat up

I try not to take sides when couples have a dispute. Sometimes one person is doing something that seems very wrong to me. In that case I...

The ghost of a chance

The bad old days before the Affordable Care Act Aaron was nineteen years old. This was in the bad old days before the Affordable Care Act...

Playing the "What If" Game

People, when they first come to see me, often think I’m going tell them what they should do. But this isn’t my job. My job is to help...

Treat Depression on Your Own

Medication for mood My patient told me she knew she was depressed, she’d had this problem before. However, she adamantly did not want to...

Bright light therapy and sleep

Waking too early in the morning The patient, 81 year-old Mrs. A., told me she wasn’t sleeping as she should. She routinely woke up at 3AM...

LET THERE BE LIGHT

...and improve your mood Sunny day/sunny mood It’s the time of year for feeling low, foggy thinking and no energy for many people. When...

Dramatic child rescue

It was a terrible night on call and promised to be at least as bad a morning. We had run three "codes," protocols to try to resuscitate...