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Is it flat mend time?
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I'm panicked. Where's the sunscreen? Are there enough pairs of underwear? What about Benadryl? Do I need to bring bandaids? This must mean I'm stressed about packing for spring break! Which I am, because we have to leave in less than 1 hour but I'm typing this email instead of checking to see that I remembered all of the things I already know I remembered. 🙄 Ahhh.... Traveling with kids.....
I can't bring you with me on this spring break adventure but what's the opposite? If we had spring break in fall what would it be called? Flat mend? (I know I might be losing you here because I'm getting way off course and didn't sleep enough!!) In any case, JOIN ME IN HAWAII!! I'll be one of the speakers at a conference on the big island in October that's going to be amazing (and you'll get 16 CEUs)!! You'll get cutting-edge, evidence-based treatment training that includes holistic and non-traditional approaches, ensuring that you're expanding your therapy practice and clinical skills both in and outside of the therapy room. I mean, yes! Please join me and the other exceptional presenters! Which has nothing at all to do with today's video on PDTs! PDTs (prescription digital therapeutics) aren’t wellness apps. They’re FDA-approved, prescription-based treatments for conditions like insomnia, ADHD, and even opioid use disorder. Pretty cool. 3 Quick Takeaways if You Skip the Video:✔ PDTs can be as effective as face-to-face therapy for some conditions (ie Somryst works just as well as in-person CBT-I for insomnia) Mind blown? Mine is but I'm also a smidge skeptical. Catch all my opinions in the video! And if you like the idea of swapping spring break chaos for The Flat Mend (wow, that is just so terrible) mark your calendar for Hawaii in October. Cheers to healthy brains, Dr. B Jessica Beachkofsky, MD Your friendly, online psychiatrist! P.S. Here's the PDT video P.P.S. Come to Hawaii and learn with me!!! P.P.P.S. Send me your best "opposite of spring break" terms! |
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Distressed patient: “I don’t know, I can’t really explain it. I just don’t feel like my brain is working as well.” Grumpy, new-doctor me: Internal, too-tired-sure-I-get-it eye roll and a "Hmmm... that sounds really difficult for you." In residency, I had patients describe their brains like they were thinking through molasses. Or like they knew what they wanted to say, but couldn’t quite reach the words. I nodded. I empathized. And after weeks on call with little sleep and too much coffee, I...
I’ll never forget her. She was so paranoid she didn't even give me her name, just the letter T. T was in her 30s, living alone in a top-floor apartment. She was convinced there were machines living in the attic. Machines that came down at night to inject her with unknown drugs and mess with her stuff; changing her tv channels and filling out her crosswords with the wrong answers. She was terrified. And depressed. And stuck. And very, very psychotic. She wasn’t always like this. Before the...
I was an art ed major in college before I switched to premed. Yes, a room full of kids with paint sounded like fun to me at that point of my life (before I experienced the terror of my own children with art supplies). The summer before I changed majors, I went to study in Paris! I imagined strolling down a cobblestone street, stopping at a charming little boulangerie, and walking out with the most perfect baguette ever created by human hands. Golden. Fluffy. Maybe handed to me by a...