Garth Kroeker

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

Sunday, January 29, 2023

Heavy Metals in Chocolate

Chocolate is one of my favourite foods, and may even have health benefits. But of course, we have to be wary of bias about health claims t...

Friday, December 30, 2022

Supplements for Mental Health, Part 3: Omega-3 Fatty Acids & Vitamin D

Omega-3 supplements and Vitamin D have seemed very promising for years, to help with general health, depressive symptoms, cognition, or bipo...

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Supplements for Mental Health, Part 2: Zinc

Zinc is a metallic element, and an essential nutrient. It is toxic if ingested in excess, with various side effects such as nausea, heada...

Supplements for Mental Health, Part 1: Folic Acid

The nutritional supplement industry has a global market size of over 300 billion US Dollars annually. This is comparable to all the money ...

Monday, December 26, 2022

Reflections on COVID management 2022

The COVID pandemic has been one of the most impactful world events of our lifetime. Aside from the disease itself, the community response ...

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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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