I often have patients come to me as winter approaches to talk about changes they are experiencing in energy, sleep habits, hunger patterns and even sadness. Although this may be a common reaction to the shorter days of winter, as a culture, [...]
What Is Depression? As humans, too often we seem to be struggling to maintain our balance. While modern medicine has vanquished most of the acute infectious diseases that were once our greatest threat, depression is still prevalent. I know that many of [...]
A list of antidepressants and their side effects Depression includes a wide range of normal negative emotions and often manifests physically in symptoms that won’t respond to treatment, including but not limited to weight gain, chronic pain, and digestion disorders. But clinical [...]
Postpartum depression’s silver lining The media - magazines, movies, television and the internet - often like to portray pregnancy and childbirth as an amazing picture-perfect experience. But women who have been through it often experience this time much differently. One of the [...]
Maybe you’ve never considered the idea that anxiety might be impacting menopause symptoms, but research has shown that it can play a significant role in the severity and frequency of hot flashes, one of the most annoying symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. [...]
How often do you look in the mirror and notice something wrong instead of something right? From an early age, we are taught to see our own flaws and the flaws in our lives much more readily than the beauty. We internalize [...]
It’s easy for most people to identify common emotions such as happy, sad, angry or surprised. But there is such a wide range of emotions that go beyond these well-known few; sometimes what you’re feeling is so much more than happiness or [...]
One of the first concerns that springs to mind when we lose focus is the specter of ADHD. Hardly anyone is unfamiliar with this term — the ADHD box grows bigger each year and more and more children fall into it — [...]
In many of my articles, I often talk about supporting the core foundation of your health. This foundation, much like a building’s, must be rooted to four mainstays, or corners. Most of the time, it is easier to describe (and to understand) [...]
Updated 3/07/2021 When I first met with Grace, she was in her mid-40s, juggling a career, family, the needs of her aging father, and helping her husband start his own business. Finances at home were tight since he’d quit his job, putting [...]
