How I came up with the idea to write the book, 5 Steps to Tame the Overwhelmed Mind
What is Energy Medicine and how does it relate to psychiatry?
In psychiatry, we usually think of energy as a way to describe how we are feeling mentally and/or physically. For example, depression tends to be associated with less energy, while mania is associated with increased energy. However, we can also look at energy in a big picture kind of way. The physical world and our bodies appear through the eye of nuclear physics to be a latticework of energies, in which the body is surrounded and permeated by an energy field which carries information.
How Can I Sleep Better?
Contrary to popular wishful thinking, most of us still need about 8 hours of sleep a night which translates to 25 years of our life asleep. We live in an increasingly 24/7 society where sleep is not a priority and can be regarded as an unnecessary diversion of time that could be better spent elsewhere.
Humor is good medicine
“Here’s proof that you have a mental illness: Have you ever been in love? And then realized at a later point in time that your beliefs and feelings about that other person had no basis in reality?” so said David Granirer at a recent mental health conference where he spoke about using comedy to confront mental illness and its public stigma.
A simple supplement proven to treat behavioral addictions
Has there ever been a behavior, urge, or thought that you may have enjoyed but felt you could not control that effects your life or bothers you? These behaviors could include gambling, stealing, sexual behavior, compulsive shopping, fire-setting, Internet use, overeating, hair pulling or skin picking.
Should we all be on an anti-inflammatory diet?
Leaky Gut, Leaky Brain: A New Take on Chronic Inflammation and Mental Health
For the first time in my 25 year career in psychiatry, there seems to be some agreement among Western medicine researchers and functional medicine practitioners about the role of leaky gut (also called gut dysbiosis or intestinal permeability) as the gateway for chronic inflammation and its effects on the entire body including psychiatric and mood disorders.