How to Handle Pandemic Weight Gain
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Pain Management
Can Electricity Relieve Your Pain?
September 16, 2021Like many of my own patients, you may be interested in doing more to treat to pain than just relying on medications, but you aren’t sure where to start. One simple and accessible treatment to consider ...
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ADHD
How Therapy Helps Me Manage My ADHD
September 16, 2021After an Instagram comment spurred me to look into whether I might have ADHD, I was eager to bring up the idea to my longtime therapist at our next appointment. Spoiler alert: I have ADHD.
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Psoriasis
Managing My Psoriasis Flares Involves Preparation, Acceptance, and Resilience
September 15, 2021While prevention may be the best medicine, sometimes flares just happen. When they do, having a plan in place to ride the wave of symptoms, speed healing, and shorten ...
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Ankylosing Spondylitis
How My Pain Became My Teacher
September 14, 2021I’ve had a long, sordid affair with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) -- over 20 years to be exact. It hasn’t been a good kind of relationship, unfortunately. But I have ...
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Deep Vein Thrombosis
My DVT Treatments Took a Toll on My Mental Health
September 13, 2021After getting diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis (or DVT -- a blood clot), my doctor put me on an anticoagulant medication. It treats dangerous blood clots and prevents new ones from forming. When I left ...
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Food and Fitness
How to Handle Pandemic Weight Gain
September 13, 2021At the doctor’s office recently, the nurse weighed me and said, “That’s five pounds heavier than last time you were here.” I was taken aback--not by the news, but that she’d actually made the comment ...
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Ulcerative Colitis
Changing My Diet Helped Me Manage My Ulcerative Colitis
September 10, 2021As with many conditions, there’s no one size fits all approach for what you can eat when you have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). My sister and I both have a form ...
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Mental Health
Considering Medication? What a Psychiatrist Wants You to Know
September 9, 2021“It felt like putting on glasses for the first time.” That is how one of my patients recently described the experience of being on medication. “I didn’t think it was ...
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Substance Abuse
How I Finally Reached Out for Help, and You Can Too
September 9, 2021I vividly remember the exact moment I decided that I’d had enough and needed to finally do something about it. You see, every addict and alcoholic has those...
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Sleep Disorders
What I Wish People Knew About Narcolepsy
September 9, 2021“How can you sleep all day and STILL be tired?” “So you can just fall asleep?” “Do you ever just pass out?” These questions are all too familiar to someone with narcolepsy...
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Migraine
How Complementary Therapies Help Me Prevent Migraines
September 8, 2021As I’ve learned more about my migraines -- and triggers -- over the years, I’ve also tried several alternative therapies to help me manage them. Some work well, especially if I’m good...
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Depression
Positive Skills I Use To Combat Depression
September 7, 2021Depression can be a very difficult thing to express and understand. You don’t WANT to feel this way, and yet, you do. You want to lay in bed all day, and...
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