Mr. C.
User Manual for Your Brain/Body–Part I
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Ami asks: I have been bipolar since the mid 80’s, probably before that. At the age of 46, I started taking medication for it. Before meds, I guess you could call it ‘what a long, strange trip it’s been’.
My question is this: What about cognitive dysfunction? Why doesn’t the side effect sheet say point [...]
Mr. C. - When A Patient Lies
Monday, January 28th, 2008Question from Erika: How do therapists/shrinks tell if a patient is lying to them, and how do they deal with it, in terms of getting the patient the immediate care they need, as well as in terms of fostering the honesty necessary to the patient’s real long term healing?
On being a mental health provider
Saturday, January 12th, 2008I’m a counselor. A Licensed Clinical Social Worker, to be exact. That means I’ve gone to four years of college, two years of graduate school, and learned to the limits of my ability the best our science has to offer about how to help people be mentally healthy. It also means that [...]