Zen Psychiatry
By Elana Miller, MD
Hello ladies and gentlemen.Today I'm going to do something I like to do from time to time here, but haven't done in a while.I'm going to get a little bit... motivational. I'm so pumped I …
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It seems to be trendy these days to say we're all overmedicated. People say we swallow a pill to try to escape any fleeting negative feeling, or that we throw them at our kids for any bad behavior. …
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Sometimes I'm surprised I wasn't born with gills.It's like I was meant to spend more time in water than on land. I didn't discover this until I was thirteen or so, when I started high school and …
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Recently, as part of my mindfulness practice, I decided to experiment with saying "yes" to everything.It was an exercise recommended specifically for the "aversive" Buddhist personality type, with …
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I was born with a problem. Well, I suppose I'm not sure I was born with it, but it sure did manifest early on.My mom tells me a story of when I was only a few months old. I was sitting in my crib, …
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I didn't set out to become an integrative psychiatrist.Like most doctors out there, I went through medical school and residency learning a "disease-based" approach of how the human body works. …
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