Psychiatric medicine specializes in the treatment of disorders of anxiety, mood, attention (such as adult ADD and adult ADHD), and thought. These are conditions that arise from the interaction between brain disorders and environmental stressors, with symptoms surfacing in many ways such as pain associated with fibromyalgia. Advancing studies of these disorders result in effective therapies that give us reasons to hope that suffering from a condition will be treatable.
If therapy with medication is considered an option, the choices are explained carefully and any side effects both for short and long term treatment are reviewed together. I understand that medical care and medication are costly and will make every effort to provide the most effective and noninvasive therapies to my patients that will lead to an improved quality of life.
Follow-up visits are essential to assess the progress and potential side effects of therapies. I also believe in self-help groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Emotions Anonymous, and other programs that have a proven record of helping my patients.
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The following are some of the disorders that are treatable with psychiatric interventions:
- Major and minor depression
- Bipolar disorders including mania
- Schizophrenia and disorders of thought
- Addictions
- Adult ADHD
- Alcoholism
- Attention deficit
- Panic attacks
- Eating disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Adjustment difficulties
- Complicated grief
- Memory problems
- Dementia
- Drug abuse
- Fatigue
- Constant worrying
- Restless leg syndrome
- Postpartum depression
- Insomnia and sleep disorders
- Irritability
- Suicidal thoughts
- Agitation
- Identity disorders
- Anger outbursts
- Paranoia