I often get this question: If I stop my antidepressant, will I experience withdrawal? While the answer may surprise you, it doesn’t mean you are addicted to your medication. Antidepressants don’t create addictive like behavior such as craving, lack of control to gain the substance or negative consequences. If you have been on an antidepressant for…

If you are like me, your consumption of dark chocolate probably increased dramatically during this past holiday season. All those stacked boxes of goodies were hard to resist. Maybe now you are thinking, “Ok, enough with the sweets! Time to get back to healthy eating again.” But what if I told you that dark chocolate…

I looked at my colleague who used to feel passion and excitement for her job. Now, all she can do is make it through the day. Something has changed. She is disconnected and flat in her conversations. She has all the signs of burn out and needs recovery. It could happen to any of us if we aren’t…

By now, you may have heard the excitement about esketamine as a breakthrough new drug for treatment resistant depression. Some people call it a game changer in the treatment of depression. One of the benefits seems to be that it quickly resolves symptoms of suicidality. Esketamine is now an FDA approved medication for treatment resistant depression (depression that doesn’t respond to…

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