Alternative Treatments For Depression
The World Health Organization predicts that  by 2030 more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem. Andrew Weil, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Medicine is an evolutionary practice. We have come to a time where we are beginning to take a new look and approach to treating depression. When I entered the mental health system during my twenties, a shift in the treatment of depression was beginning to take place. The combination of therapy and short term of antidepressant medications was the standard way of treating

Alternative Treatments for Depression
The World Health Organization predicts that  by 2030 more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem. Andrew Weil, is a world-renowned leader and pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, a healing oriented approach to health care which encompasses body, mind, and spirit. Medicine is an evolutionary practice. We have come to a time where we are beginning to take a new look and approach to treating depression. When I entered the mental health system during my twenties, a shift in the treatment of depression was beginning to take place. The combination of therapy and short term of antidepressant medications was the standard way of treating

Brooke Shields on Suicidal Thoughts Following Childbirth
As you will all come to know I am advocating for baseline hormone levels to be used as a first line diagnostic tool in the treatment of Postpartum Depression and Psychosis and for retraining of mental health professionals in treating trauma.  My advocacy is based on my personal experiences with these conditions and years of independent research. I am not a medical professional.  I am a survivor Postpartum Depression and Psychosis and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I have experienced and survived the suicidal and psychotic side effects of psychiatric drugs. Brooke Shields’s story is very compelling. When I saw her interview on Oprah my heart broke for her. I could s

Pregnant on Prozac
I want to share a very personal story of mine with you to make you understand that I completely understand how one can become pregnant taking a psychiatric drug  because it happened to me when I was 28 years old. This was my fifth pregnancy and the son I had in 1979 was the only live birth.  My OB/GYN actually was going to send me for fertility testing if the pregnancy with my son ended in a miscarriage as my other three pregnancies had. Once I found out I was pregnant, I really did not know what I was going to do. I met with my psychiatrist who had spoken to my OB/GYN and they both were in agreement I should terminate the pregnancy for two reasons. I had spent two

Underlying Causes of Postpartum
Dr. Robert Scaer  is a neurologist who spent his 30 year career studying the effect of trauma traumasoma on humans. In a recent email I exchanged with Dr. Robert Scaer , when asking him to do a video specifically on Postpartum Depression and Psychosis, he send me the following response which he gave me permission to share with you. “I’m not sure I should be the one doing a video on postpartum  depression, but if I did, this is what I might say.” “It is well known in the natural childbirth field (my former wife, a childbirth educator, noted that midwives and doulas