Garth Kroeker

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

Friday, February 19, 2016

Do Higher Doses of Antidepressants Work Better?

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It is common practice in psychiatry to increase the dose of an antidepressant if the standard dose is not helping enough.  Sometimes doses a...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Mental Health Care Organization & Advocacy

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A grave problem in the world today is the lack of timely access to mental health care. The roots of this problem are located in basic soc...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

CBT Therapists prefer Psychodynamic for themselves

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Last summer a professional colleague quoted a research finding, that CBT therapists, if they had to choose a style of therapy for themselves...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Light therapy for non-seasonal depression

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Lam et al. have published a study this month in JAMA Psychiatry  ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26580307 ) in which they show that pe...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Omega-3 supplements: update

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 A number of negative studies have come out in the past year or two, regarding various types of supplements.   I think it is good to be w...
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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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