Garth Kroeker

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

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Mental health issues in the workplace

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A frequent source of unhappiness I see has to do with a psychologically unhealthy work environment.  I am interested to survey the research ...

Antidepressants = Psychotherapy = Placebo ?

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Jacques Barber et al. have recently published the results of a randomized, controlled study conducted between 2001 and 2007, comparing antid...
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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Worksheets

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Here's a good site that has many links to free therapy worksheets:  http://therapyworksheets.blogspot.com/ Spending some focused time ...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Piracetam

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Piracetam is a so-called "nootropic" drug, a substance which supposedly helps improve cognitive functioning.  It is available with...
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Therapeutic approaches to irritability

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Irritability can be a challenging symptom, often present in a wide range of different clinical settings.  Unipolar depression can present wi...
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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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