Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Monday, August 18, 2025

Grocery Shopping & Mental Health

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 Good nutrition is essential for physical and mental health.   But changing one's diet is probably not going to cure depression or make ...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Reflections on Religion: Reference List

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 References for my previous post ( Garth Kroeker: Reflections on Religion: Part 2 ) Attenborough, D. (2006). Planet Earth. BBC. Attenborough...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Reflections on Religion: Part 2

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Years ago I wrote another blog post about religion (July 15, 2008:  Garth Kroeker: Religion ), and I thought it was time for an update, on t...
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GK
I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.
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