When the Experts Stop Being the Experts

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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