Tag: living with
member name: Michael C. Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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January 21, 2008 11:06 AM EST --
Recently I had coffee with a friend who is worried about her 86-year-old mother, who lives in the Midwest. "Lately it seems like she's worried about everything," my friend told me. "She . . .
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February 04, 2008 01:32 PM EST --
Depression is so common that it is sometimes easy to overlook. This is especially true when it occurs in men, who seem to have a harder time than women recognizing it in themselves. And they also are . . .
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March 10, 2008 01:49 PM EDT --
Several patients I'm treating for depression also suffer from migraine headaches. One of them asked me recent if there is any connection between the two. Definitely—but it's a bit complicated. . . .
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October 29, 2007 12:32 PM EDT --
The people I’ve met who get panic attacks describe them as very powerful — and very negative — experiences: Sudden, intense surges of anxiety are accompanied by uncomfortable physical . . .
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October 29, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
It’s been an unseasonably warm October here in the northeast, so it is hard for me to imagine that winter is coming soon. But it is, and some of us will be taking it hard.
A sunny disposition . . .
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February 25, 2008 01:47 PM EST --
It's become a tradition in my family. After we drop our kids at camp near Augusta, Maine, we stop in Freeport on our drive back to Boston.
Freeport is the home of clothing retailer L.L. Bean, which . . .
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June 16, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
Positive psychology is sometimes dismissed as so much happy talk. But in some circumstances, these techniques provide a much-needed balance to psychiatry's traditional focus on psychic pain and pathology. . . .
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July 14, 2008 04:56 PM EDT --
As the treatment arsenal for bipolar (manic-depressive) disorder has expanded in recent years, some experts have become concerned that lithium — a mainstay of treatment since FDA approval in 1970 . . .
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July 28, 2008 04:51 PM EDT --
Although bipolar disorder is diagnosed largely on the basis of whether a manic or hypomanic episode has occurred, the condition’s most painful burden may be depression and disability.
Full recovery . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:20 AM EDT --
Some people find that the first medication they try delivers great results: their depression lifts, they feel more like themselves, and they have few or no side effects. But for many others, finding the . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:14 PM EDT --
I know some people who can’t wait to get to the gym, but I am not one of them. I do go, though, because exercise seems to have endless health benefits.
And lately I’ve been more and more convinced . . .
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October 01, 2007 03:03 PM EDT --
From time to time, people ask me whether diet really can have an effect on mood.
The answer is yes, though diet doesn’t usually provide a quick fix for depression. It may seem silly to say it, but . . .
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November 12, 2007 10:23 AM EST --
I was waiting on the checkout line at the hardware store the other day, when a man in front of me started yelling at his son, who was about six or seven years old. The boy had grabbed a candy bar, and . . .
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November 19, 2007 10:11 AM EST --
A few years ago, a patient of mine noticed some changes when he exchanged his brand-name antidepressant for the generic form. For the next month or two, he felt slightly apathetic and made some mistakes . . .
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January 04, 2008 04:52 PM EST --
About 20% of people who make an appointment with a mental health professional never show up, and another 20% never come for a second visit. Forty percent of patients who start taking an antidepressant . . .
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March 24, 2008 10:06 AM EDT --
Like many people, I enjoy a late-night snack—especially when the Boston Red Sox are playing a late game or if I'm burning the midnight oil to get some work done. The occasional late-night snack . . .
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April 07, 2008 01:02 PM EDT --
In January 2008, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published a study that seemed to question the effectiveness of antidepressants. Since then, I've been fielding occasional questions from . . .
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October 09, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
I know a lot of people who worry when a loved one — especially a spouse or a child — gets into therapy. They fear the therapist will drive a wedge in the relationship.
And in some cases there’s . . .
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October 15, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
A report in the British journal Nature provides vivid evidence that other animal species suffer from the psychological symptoms of traumatic stress that we like to think of as human disorders.
Elephants, . . .
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October 22, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
When I was first in training to be a psychiatrist in the 1970s, I was skeptical about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The procedure seemed primitive to me, and I suppose I — like many people of . . .
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