Please, somebody wake me up and tell me I’ve been having a bad dream. I didn’t just read that the District Attorney in Collin County has charged a Plano woman, Dena Schlosser, with capital murder. She can be put to death for taking a phrase in the Bible literally and […]
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They are the best of times and the worst of times, to borrow a phrase from Dickens. Parties, presents, family – and parties, presents and family. Why do so many people feel so much stress this time of year? Parties are fun to go to – mostly, but then there’s […]
On 9-14-04 I made a diary entry after the baseball incident where a pitcher threw a chair into the stands. In the baseball incident, I was most perplexed by the lack of any commentary about the fans’ roles in the problem or their inappropriate behavior. Now this weekend we had […]
I like the word "stress", and I find that patients accept the word and the concept. It helps answer the question, "why am I so screwed up?" It certainly beats words like "schizophrenia", "manic depressive" and "neurosis." "Borderline personality" never sold well. Change starts with awareness. Only when you know […]
This morning, our slogan hit me – it was too obvious, "Prescription for Mental Fitness." Penny and I have been writing a newsletter for almost nine years: "Mental Fitness Update." We give these to our patients and to health care professionals when we speak. But what exactly is "mental fitness," […]
Last week, a rep from a pharmaceutical company that manufacture a sleep medication was in my office. He said, “You have a unique practice because you see a lot of patients with sleep problems.” I said, “WRONG! I see the same patients that all psychiatrists and primary care doctors see. The […]
Jane Pauley in August of 2004 went public with the fact that she has bipolar disorder and takes a mood stabilizer (Lithium). She details the development of her illness in a new book, Skywriting. How did the "all American girl" become "mentally ill?" I don’t like the term mental illness. […]
What possessed me to take on such a huge project as this website? What makes me think that I’m qualified to do it? Maybe it’s partly being in my sixties, but mostly it’s my personality that I feel compelled to challenge the system when I see or hear things that I know […]
"Study Discovers Help for Hypochondriacs" headlined an article in the Dallas Morning News. "Advancement in Hypochondriac Therapy" announced a shorter article in USA Today. Both articles make the point that this condition is "mental not physical." A quarter of the patients in the study dropped out after being told the […]
I have been planning to keep a diary since listening to the book How to Discover Your Genius by Gelb. He chose his top ten (other than DaVinci who got a book all to himself). He noted that many of these historical geniuses kept a diary – so it must […]