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Monday, September 18, 2017

Author Interview: How to Find Healing with a Mental Illness

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       “Often it's deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your higher self." -Karen Salmansohn  Dorit Sasson of Giving...
Monday, September 11, 2017

Therapeutic Relationship Killers: What to Do if Your Psychiatrist is Having a Bad Day

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Your psychiatrist or psychotherapist is having a bad day and you catch them on their bad day. What do you do? Some truths:   You ...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

Are You Suffering from Negative Mindreading?

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Negative Mindreading   m eans you know for sure what your MD believes about you, and you've decided he's an indifferent fiend wh...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Clinical Relationship Killers (Part 1)

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Unrealistic Expectations, the Extremes So, you expect your psychiatrist to be M*A*S*H’s Dr. Sydney Freedman’s identical twin? Remember ...
Monday, July 24, 2017

Preparing for Your First Psychiatrist Appointment

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In the previous blog posts, I walked you through the strategy of finding your psychiatrist. Now what happens? First, check-in with yoursel...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Finding Your Psychotherapist Match: The Strategy

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Finding the right psychotherapist for you isn’t as easy as picking a name off an insurance provider list and showing up in their office...
Friday, July 7, 2017

About My Book: Finding My Voice: A 20 Year Psychiatrist-Patient Odyssey

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“ Somebody, please, tell me why am I dragging myself into my psychiatrist ’ s office every month and swallowing all these pills when it ’...