Hand Numbness – Causes and Evaluation
So numbness in the hands is one of the vaguest symptoms you can have, and it can have a multitude of causes from anxiety to paraneoplastic syndromes (a side effect of certain cancers). I of course assumed it...
Category: Psychiatry
Posts about psychiatry and mental health issues.
Generic vs brand name Effexor – differences for some people
<Originally written 8/21/09 – moved from another site which was taken down, yet attracted a lot of comments. Here’s a fairly standard disclaimer: The content of this website is provided for general informational purposes only and...
People just love the unusual suggested searches
So it turns out December was my best month yet on this site trafficwise (which isn’t saying much). I have made minimal to no effort to assist this website in getting decent rankings in search engines, aside from...
Bizarre interests in Google search
So I’m looking through the Google trends just now, and while I’ve seen some weird searches before, I have to say this one got my attention – perhaps because of my pseudonym. I can’t figure out...
Best drug ever
J Clin Psychiatry 2010;71(5):520–527 Adjuvant Aspirin Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Results From a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Objective: Inflammatory processes may play a role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. The aim of this...
Stupid reason for sobriety
Dr. Freud: How long have you been sober? Mr. Holic: I haven’t had a drink in 6 months. I’ve kicked the habit. Dr. Freud: Looking at your record, you’ve been in jail the last...
Healthier Fruits and Vegies
I’ve always thought that the whole organic food movement was a bunch of hippie BS. I thought that there was no real proof that pesticides really made it into our diet, or that feeding animals with...
Search trends offer many insights
Maybe I’m just procrastinating, but I think I may have stumbled across something pretty cool. I was browsing the blogs this morning and came across a very interesting article on the Mothershandbook blog and noticed that...