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4 Signs Your Schizophrenia May Be Treatment Resistant
About 30% of people with schizophrenia continue to have psychotic symptoms even on medication. Treatment resistant is when you don’t have an adequate resolution of your symptoms after taking at least two antipsychotic medications that...
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Does Brain Stimulation Work Better Than Medication?
This video is about the devices and procedures we use in psychiatry to treat certain illnesses. We call these neuromodulation devices. There are called this because they work by directly stimulating the brain to get their effect. The...
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Do Stimulants Change Your Personality?
Do stimulants change your personality? If you look this question up on the Internet you will probably find that the short answer is no. But if you really do a deep dive into the research on how these medications affect the brain the...
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Do Antidepressants Shrink Your Brain? No but Depression Does.
Do antidepressants shrink your brain? No, but depression does. This question is based on a viewer comment. I think it’s pretty common for people to believe this. But in actuality, the illness, major depression causes brain cell loss and...
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Can You Fully Recover From Depression?
Disclaimer: All of the information on this channel is for educational purposes and not intended to be specific/personal medical advice from me to you. Watching the videos or getting answers to comments/question, does not establish a...
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Are Antidepressants Addictive?
Antidepressants are not addictive in the way that we think of or define addiction. This video addresses the following questions: If your symptoms return after you stop an antidepressant does that mean you’re addicted? What is the...
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Brain Zaps and Antidepressants - Why Do they Happen?
Brain zaps are part of what we call medication discontinuation syndrome. Medication discontinuation syndrome are symptoms that you can see when you suddenly stop your medication. In this case were talking about what you see when you stop...
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Bipolar Disorder – What Does It Mean To Have a Predominant Polarity?
Did you know that about half the people with bipolar disorder, spend more time in one phase over the other and which phase that is can make a difference in how well you do? This video explains this pattern and how it can make a...
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Emotional Blunting with Antidepressants
Emotional Blunting with antidepressants. Many people who take antidepressants will say they feel flat, numb or like they can't experience normal emotions. In this video I discuss why that happens and what can help it.
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Do You Grow Out of ADHD?
For a long time the model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been that it’s a neurodevelopmental disorder that starts in childhood. The expected course of ADHD has been that that about 50% of people with childhood ADHD,...
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Do Benzodiazepines Cause Dementia?
Benzodiazepines are a type of medication prescribed to people with anxiety and panic disorders. But do they cause dementia? In this video, I talk about the research on benzodiazepines and dementia, and what it means for people taking...
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Can You Stop Your Bipolar Medication? – Maybe Here’s How
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that involves recurring episodes of depression and either hypomania or mania. It normally requires medication to treat the acute episodes as well as keep them from coming back once they...
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Can You Have Bipolar Disorder + Borderline Personality? |Here’s Why It Matters
Can you have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder at the same time? I've been asked this question several times and the answer is yes. In fact, some people will refer to this as borderpolar. This isn’t an official term...
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Can Mental Illness Be Cured?
Most disorders both mental and physical are managed and not cured. In medicine we think of cure as a total reversal of an illness to the point where there's no evidence of it and it does not return. the closest we get to this scenario is...
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Can Antidepressants Stop Working?
It’s estimated that 25% of people develop tolerance to their antidepressant medications. This medication tolerance issue was first noticed in the early 1980’s when we were using Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, called MAOis. These were very...
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Can Anti-Inflammatories Treat Depression? - New Research
NSAIDs stands for non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. They are medications that treat inflammation in the body but are not steroids. These are drugs like ibuprofen or Motrin, naproxen or Aleve and celecoxib or Celebrex. There’s been a...
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Anxiety vs Mania – How To Tell The Difference
Anxiety disorders can occur along with bipolar disorder and there is some overlap in the way anxiety and mania look that it's not always clear which it is. Why does this matter? Because one of the ways people can remain stable with...
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Bipolar Disorder - When we use Lithium
Lithium is the first recommended treatment for bipolar disorder, but only when you have classic bipolar disorder. Classic bipolar disorder is when you have a clean separation between depressive episodes and manic episodes. I've defined...
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Benzodiazepine Dependence and Withdrawal - How To Avoid This
Benzodiazepine or benzos for short, is the class of drug that works at the GABA receptors in your brain to produce a relaxing or sedative effect. We use benzodiazepines to treat short-term anxiety and sleep. Some doctors will use them as...
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Autism Spectrum Disorder - Understanding the Sensory Crisis
In this video I define autism spectrum disorder and specifically focus on the what you can do about the sensory crisis. The way we define autism has changed over the years. It began as infantile autism in 1980 and then in 1987 it became...
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Alternative Medicine For Depression
There are natural medicines for depression that can be used as add on treatment. Some of these options for depression can be used alone to help mild to moderate symptoms. In this video I discuss some of the options for helping your...
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Let’s Talk About Drugs
Dr. Algae talks about the differences between good (legal) drugs and bad (illegal) drugs. He then explains the adverse effects bad drugs can have on the body and encourages your student to make a pledge not to use illegal drugs.
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Mental Illness and Autonomy
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks gives her views on ways of straddling the ethical divide between respecting the autonomy of mental health patients while finding ways to provide appropriate treatment for their conditions.
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Evaluating Psychotherapy
USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks describes how, despite a lack of rigorous studies demonstrating the impact of psychoanalysis, for many people - including herself - psychoanalysis played a very significant positive role in their...