Garth Kroeker

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

Sunday, April 5, 2020

COVID-19 update April 5 2020

The main advice about COVID-19 is just the same as before: very strict social distancing (stay at least 2 metres, or 6 feet away from other...

Friday, April 3, 2020

Mental Health care during COVID-19

With COVID-19, we are all likely to experience great hardships: social isolation, cramped living quarters, severe financial problems, daily...

COVID update April 3, 2020

As the pandemic progresses, we see more and more abundant evidence that very strict social distancing is effective. 2 metres (or 6 feet) o...

Monday, October 7, 2019

Indistractable: Book Review

Indistractable , by Nir Eyal, is an instruction manual, teaching us how to make healthy choices with our attention and activities, in the ...

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Review: "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Lukianoff and Haidt

The Coddling of the American Mind: This is another book I recommend as an important, timely review of contemporary issues relating to mode...

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About Me

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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