Health and Psychology

                                                                                           

It's a new doctor.  They...

I usually tell patients upfront that they have limited privacy.  Therapy notes are priviliged and confidential except when they aren't.  There's a long list of circumstances when they aren't.

The times people expect:

• Suicidal
• Homicidal
• Gravely disabled
• Harming a dependent child
• Harming a dependent adult
• Billing insurance

You feel sad, listliss, have no energy, no concentration, can't sleep or sleep too much, cry easily over nothing.  Depression right?  Not so fast.

There are more than 50 medical problems that can cause these symptoms.  If you add symptoms of manic-lack of sleep, feeling on top of the world and having boundless energy, the list of medical conditions rises to 77.

So how do you know if depression is depression and needs psychological or psychoph...

CHILD ABUSE

I come from a horrific history of child abuse.  I've had some therapists refer to my history as child torture.  It started from the day I was born and adopted out, until the time 3 days later when I went to a neonatal intensive care unit with ruptured ear drums, and my adoptive parents said they didn't want me any longer.  To the adoption agency lying about my background, history, ethnicity, religious background and medical condition to the physician signing o...

Head injuries are classified as mild, moderate, or severe based on length of loss of consciousness.  There is no concussive injury that should not be taken seriously.  So the attorney that asked me in court "Your injury was only mild right?" didn't seem to understand that even a so-called "mild" head injury can produce significant and life-altering symptoms.  

The Center for Disease Control uses this definition:

• A case of mild traumatic...

I do a lot of psychological and neuropsychological testing.  I'm often asked to do screenings instead of psychological evaluation.  In many cases that's adequate.  But in other cases it leads to an inadequate and incorrect diagnosis.  

Schools, psychiatrists, general medical doctors, and pediatricians do a lot of screening measures.  These are often checklists, questionnaires, and other self-report measures that people complete themselves or on behal...

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Before 1957 in the United States, measles was a common infection.  About 5,000 people out of the 500,000 or so people that caught the infection died each year.  The first measles vaccine came out in 1963.  It was updated in 1968.  In 1971 the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine came out.  In 1970 there were about 47,000 cases of measles with 89 deaths.  By 1978 there were about 27,000 cases.  In 2007 there were 43 cases.  Measles was almost eliminated. &...

I often evaluate people requiring oxygen for psychological issues of memory problems, anxiety or depression.  So I want to talk about how memory problems, anxiety and depression are related to lung function.  The chest contains two lungs.  One on the right side and one on the left side.  Each is made up of four parts called lobes.  Lungs are protected by the ribcage.  The lungs are like balloons and are soft and inflate and expand with breathing.  The functi...

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A friend of mine Geborah, was avoiding her mamogram.  When she was finally talked into ot she was found to have stage one breast cancer.  She has since had radia...