Garth Kroeker

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

Monday, October 31, 2016

Audio and Video recordings of Positive Affirmations

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In my last post, I was discussing a technique of practicing exposure to recordings of upsetting thoughts. This same idea can be applied to...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Exposure Therapy for Worries, Intrusive Thoughts, Ruminations, and Obsessions

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Worries, ruminations, intrusive thoughts, and obsessional thoughts can be a terrible source of suffering.  If they are mild or infrequent, t...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Garden metaphor

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This is an update of a post I originally wrote in 2008. The brain, or the mind, or your life, is like a garden. It has grown for many ye...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Virtue of Admitting Weaknesses

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I think it is a virtue to admit areas of weakness.  In our modern, competitive world, we are encouraged never to admit our shortcomings.  ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Persuasive Factors in Politics

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In my previous posts, I was describing some of Cialdini's factors which affect decision-making and persuasion. It is interesting to lo...
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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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