The last entry talked about the aftermath—how the music never swells, and hugs don't always come. There's no curtain call when the truth comes out. Just more fallout. I want to take a moment to circle back to why this blog started in the first place. Originally, this space was meant to be …
Category: Medications
I think I can say I am honestly shocked…
As many of you know, I work psych as a medicine person, not a psych person (believe me, you need to differentiate in psych). I have spent a great deal of time hearing that the patient has a somatic disorder in my career. Somatic symptom disorder involves a significant focus on physical symptoms, such as …
Under pressure…
Credit. CDC A new study out in the European Heart Journal. Routine ingestion by hypertensive patients of ≥1 prescribed BP-lowering medications at bedtime, as opposed to upon waking, results in improved ABP control (significantly enhanced decrease in asleep BP and increased sleep-time relative BP decline, i.e., BP dipping) and, most importantly, markedly diminished occurrence …
Podcast Antidepressants are depressing
This weeks podcast is solo by my own fault. I slept past Chris' message for many reasons. This week I will be talking my fool head off about anti-depressants both being on them and then hopefully coming off of them. This is my personal experience with doing this and may provide some insight into when …