Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Fishing Metaphor

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I find this metaphor applicable especially to social anxiety, shyness, and frustrations finding new relationships. The aspect of this metaph...
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Defective steering wheel metaphor

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We all have the capacity to "steer" our lives. Yet the "steering wheel" never works perfectly. It may steer better at c...

Ship at Sea metaphor

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Your situation may be like a ship in the middle of the sea. You may not know where you are. You may not know if you are progressing or not. ...

Mysticism

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I like to think of myself as a non-dogmatic intellectual with an open mind. I tend to interpret stories about mystical or supernatural expe...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Healthy Eating

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-lots of fresh vegetables & fruits (except for root vegetables), in amount and variety -lots of high-fiber foods -less meat, if any -fi...
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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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