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Psychiatrist or Therapist: Who Should YOU See?
Psychiatrist Dr. Tracey Marks delves into the key differences between psychiatrists and therapists, offering guidance on choosing the right mental health professional based on symptoms and treatment needs. The video also explores the...
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Drug Use and Misuse
Dr. Forrester explains the difference between drugs that are beneficial to our bodies and drugs that are harmful. She describes the negative impact that the misuse of drugs and illegal drugs can have on each of the body’s systems.
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Why Are Prescription Drugs SO Expensive?
Why are prescription drugs so expensive in the United States? Why does the same medication cost significantly less in other countries around the world? Today Danielle examines the history of pharmaceutical regulation in America and how...
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How To Use Mindfulness For Depression
Mindfulness's attention to the here and now. It's being fully present in the moment. You are experiencing the present moment and non-judgmental way. The brain model of depression is hypo-connectivity between the neurons in certain parts...
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How to Use Light Therapy
A light box can be useful for more than seasonal affective disorder. It has been recommended for use as an add-on treatment for depression. It can also help shift your body clock. This video shows you how to use a light box.
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How To Tell If Your Anxiety Is Treatment Resistant
In this video, we're going to talk about what it means when you have treatment resistant anxiety. I’m also going to define four terms for you, treatment resistance, treatment refractory, medication intolerance, target symptoms. I also...
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How To Question Your Doctor's Diagnosis
It’s no secret that people get information from the Internet. So you don’t need to tiptoe around this issue. But of course, you don’t want to say I think you got the diagnosis wrong. No one wants to start a conversation feeling...
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How Sleeping Pills Work
***My apologies for the loud music. This is an older video and I was really into background music when I made this. I've since learned my lesson for later videos. 🙂 There are few concepts I want you to know before we move on to talk...
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How Long Does Rapid Cycling Last? Switching vs Cycling
Bipolar disorder is considered to be in a rapid cycling state if you have more than four episodes of either depression or mania in one year. One study showed that 80% of people experienced a resolution of their rapid cycling within two...
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Here's Why You Want To Know About Mushrooms and Depression
Psilocybin is a compound found in mushrooms that has psychedelic properties. Psychedelic means it makes you hallucinate. Psilocybin works in the brain by activating the 5-HT2A receptor on the neuron to increase serotonin.
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Generic Medicine - Are They As Good As The Brand?
Are generic medicines just as good as the brand? In theory, yes generic medications are just as good when it comes to clinical effect and safety. But for some medications you can see differences in how they work for you. When a new drug...
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How To Help Your Loved One Get Help
It's very hard to watch a loved one need help but not get it. What you do to help depends on why they refuse help and how much they accept that they have an illness. See this video on The Imposter Syndrome for one way this looks •...
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How To Nebulize Your Bird
When your bird gets sick and needs their medication delivered by breathing it in, then you'll need a nebulizer. Archie the Amazon parrot is here to help show you how to get it done!
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Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers?
Why do you gain weight with antidepressants and mood stabilizers? In this video I discuss two way. One way is by blocking histamine 1 receptors. We usually think of histamine as something that is associated with allergies and your immune...
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Why Do Antidepressants Take So Long To Work?
Antidepressants can take anywhere from 2 -6 weeks to see a therapeutic effect. You may notice a little improvement sooner than that, but the usual is weeks. There's a couple reasons for this. The first is due to the way the drug works....
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Why Do Antidepressants Cause Vivid Dreams?
If you have taken antidepressant medication like Zoloft, Prozac or Lexapro to name a few, you may have experienced bizarre or intense dreams. This very disturbing, it does not mean the medication is making you worse. Antidepressants...
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Why Antidepressants Make You Feel Worse - At First
This problem of antidepressants making you feel worse can happen when we use it for anxiety or depression. With depression, you can feel even more depressed after you take it, but if you keep taking it, that effect wears off. The problem...
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Which Antipsychotics Cause The Most Weight Gain?
Antipsychotic medications are powerful drugs that are used to treat more than psychotic conditions like schizophrenia. Many of them are FDA-approved to treat bipolar disorder and depression. Even though they work very well and fast, they...
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When Tricyclic Antidepressants May Be Your Better Option
Depression can be a debilitating condition, but for some people, tricyclic antidepressants may be a better option. In this video, I talk about the pros and cons of tricyclic antidepressants and how they may be a better choice for some...
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What is Treatment Resistant Depression? What Do We Do about it?
Treatment resistant depression is defined as having 2 failed, 6-week antidepressant trials. Another way of putting is, you have depression, you take medication for at least 6 weeks and you don’t get better. Then you try another...
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What is Serotonin Syndrome - Is It Fatal?
Serotonin is a brain chemical, also called neurotransmitter that plays a role in controlling your mood and anxiety. Low levels of this in your brain contribute to depression and anxiety. Therefore, many of the medications we use to treat...
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Why Antidepressants Kill Your Sex Drive - And What To Do About It
Why do antidepressants kill your sex drive? Sexual side effects are a common unwanted medication side effect. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter or nerve chemical that plays a role regulating your mood. But it also does affects nerves that...
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What is Mixed Mania and How Do We Treat It?
What is Mixed Mania and How Do We Treat It? The official term for mixed mania is bipolar disorder either 1 or 2 with mixed features. With bipolar 1 disorder, you have episodes of depression and episodes of mania. With bipolar 2, you have...