Tag: michael c miller
member name: Michael C. Miller, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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June 02, 2008 11:20 AM EDT --
I have a neighbor who prides himself on having the perfect lawn. He spends hours each week tending, mowing, and weed-whacking his yard. I get tired just watching him.
Perfectionism can be exhausting. . . .
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May 05, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
Recently, a colleague told me about one of his patients who suffered a relapse of major depression. Her symptoms were so severe that she was hospitalized for several days. When we talked later about what . . .
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May 19, 2008 11:55 AM EDT --
I've written here in the past about the use of meditation for reducing anxiety and as part of comprehensive treatment for depression. Another technique that may help some people is hypnosis.
One . . .
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February 20, 2009 10:22 AM EST --
When I last contributed to this blog, I wrote about the field of positive psychology and how different therapies can help some people alleviate symptoms of depression. This week, I'd like to share . . .
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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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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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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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August 26, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
When it comes to panic disorder, medication alone is rarely sufficient to provide relief from symptoms.
Part of the challenge in treating panic disorder is that it has many manifestations and varied . . .
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