Tag: depression
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Psychotherapy, Cannabis, and CBD Oil
As a psychotherapist in California, I have had the opportunity to observe the affects of cannabis and CBD cannabis first hand in my practice. Medical marijuana has been legal here in California for 20 years. I have been able to observe it’s continuing integration as a medicine for physical, mental and spiritual health. I have…
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Work Stress and Feeling Overworked
How to deal with stress at work is more complicated than we might think. Usually we “just endure” the stress at work. Endurance is an important quality to develop. However, if that is the only tool in the tool box we could exhaust our body as well as our spirit. This is one…
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Alternatives, Psychotropic Medication: Psychedelics and Cannabis
In the previous post: Psychotropic drugs: Chemical and Herbal Medicine for the Mind and Emotions, I began to describe how one goes about choosing the different chemical and herbal pathways available to treat anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other forms of mental and emotional suffering. In this post we will look into other alternatives, psychotropic medications…
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Psychotropic drugs: Chemical and Herbal Medicine for the Mind and Emotions
I need medicine to help with over-whelming emotions and thoughts. How do I decide what is best for me or my children? Some psychotropic drugs are chemical and some are herbal. How do I choose which way to go? The solution comes out of questions that I have heard many people struggle with. For example,…
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Cultural Mania in the Individual
A very large majority of people in the American culture have normalized mania. We are affected by this because we live in the culture. We participate in it, either to fuel or to heal it. “Trump is not a man apart. He is, instead, merely one of us writ large.” Michael D’Antonio who wrote the…
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New Year’s Resolutions, Will Power and Bad Habits
Who hasn’t had a problem with will power and bad habits. We all get to points in our life where we see that our habits have turned destructive. They started out fun, exciting and very satisfying and then turned to the opposite. The negative effect begins outweighing the positive effect. The negative consequences on our…
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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holidays
Usually, people who tend toward depression are very sensitive. As fall and winter pull us into our inner world of feelings, thoughts, intuitions, and sensations, it brings us closer to the subtleties of how we tick. We miss the light of spring and summer where everything is bright, clear and extroverted. I commonly hear clients,…
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Parenting a Child with Depression, 9 of the Symptoms
Parenting a Child With Depression Is my child depressed? There is probably some amount of depression if a parent even asks this question. The next question is how to determine the best way to get some relief for your child. This does not necessarily mean antidepressants. It could be changing school environment, a different style…
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Bipolar 1, Bipolar 2: Mania and Depression
When we look at the symptoms of bipolar 1 or bipolar 2, we see symptoms that are a result of unresolved emotional confusion about relationships, uncertainty about one’s place in the culture, and very little control of instinctual drives and emotions. When we move into adulthood and there is little or no guidance; mania and…
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Depression Clinics and the Success of Ketamine
Major Depression is now being treated with ketamine. Under a doctor’s supervision and in the correct dosage it is an effective treatment for depression. The success is significant, especially compared to the current treatment with antidepressants. Previously it has been used in higher dosages as an anesthetic and then also for recreational use. What…
