From the New York Times February 22, 2022. The ‘Nation’s Psychiatrist’ Takes Stock, With FrustrationIn a new book, Thomas Insel, who led research into psychiatric disease for 13 years, says that advances in neuroscience have yet to benefit patients. Credit…Carolyn Fong for The New York TimesEllen BarryBy Ellen BarryFeb. 22, 2022 A new book byContinue reading “Absolute failings of the United States mental health system…”
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IS A 4-DAY WORK WEEK BETTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH THAN THE 5-DAY WORK WEEK? WHAT ABOUT THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF A 3-DAY WORK WEEK, OR A 2-DAY WORK WEEK? PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT GETTING BACK INTO A TRULY PRODUCTIVE WORK MODE TAKES SOME REORIENTATION, EFFORT, FOCUS, AND TIME. IT’S LIKE STOP-AND-GO TRAFFIC… IT TAKES QUITE A BIT OF ENERGY TO BOTH SLOW DOWN THE MOMENTUM, AND THEN GET BACK UP TO SPEED.
Do most jobs or projects really require an 8-hour work day (or really, when taking into account breaks and lunch time, a 7.5 hour or 7 hour workday)? Charles Tadros, M.D. August 16, 2022 Saint Louis, Missouri
Your insomnia, sadness, depression, anxiety, traumatized feelings, and substance abuse are, in large part, a response to your thinking and believing that there is something wrong with you or that something went terribly wrong in your past.
Sometimes, suffering and incapacity are due to a disease or diseases. Often, suffering and incapacity are due to our minds and our bodies RESPONDING ( ie an immediate, but dysfunctional, tactic to survive) to diseases and traumas. Later in life, this tactic, this dysfunction, no longer serves the original purpose of helping us survive aContinue reading “Your insomnia, sadness, depression, anxiety, traumatized feelings, and substance abuse are, in large part, a response to your thinking and believing that there is something wrong with you or that something went terribly wrong in your past.”
MODERN MEDICATIONS, AND OTHER TECHNIQUES FOR TREATING MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS, ARE LIFE-SAVING FOR THE MOST SEVERE AND DISABLING CASES. THESE SAME MEDICATIONS ARE TOO LIMITED IN THEIR BENEFITS WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR ABILITY TO HELP, IF NOT COMBINED WITH A HOLISTIC APPROACH (exercise, diet, sleep, friendships, family, hope, goals, spirituality, relief from addictions, microbiome, epigenetics) IN ORDER TO RELIEVE ONE’S SUFFERING.
Charles Tadros, M.D. September 1, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK IS ONE OF THE MOST STRESSFUL FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS. THIS STRESSOR AFFECTS EVERY ASPECT OF OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, AND RELATIONSHIP HEALTH.
Charles Tadros, M.D. August 25, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
WITH SEVERE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS, A PATIENT WILL, OFTEN, MENTION THE PROBLEM, ASK FOR, AND ACCEPT HELP. WITH SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, OFTEN, A PATIENT WILL NOT HAVE ENOUGH INSIGHT TO RECOGNIZE AND NAME THE PROBLEM, LET ALONE ASK FOR HELP.
Charles Tadros, M.D. July 12, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
SMALL VS. LARGE CHANGE
SOMETIMES IT IS IMPORTANT TO MAKE SMALL, INCREMENTAL CHANGES (saving, investing) IN ORDER TO NUDGE YOURSELF TOWARD LARGER GOALS (retirement). OTHER TIMES, IT IS BETTER TO MAKE MORE DRAMATIC CHANGES (stop abusing substances and stop surrounding yourself with others who continue to use) IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE LARGER GOALS (improved relationships, mental health and physicalContinue reading “SMALL VS. LARGE CHANGE”
YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH ARE YOUR MONEY MAKERS.
Charles Tadros, M.D. April 26, 2021 Saint Louis, Missouri
ALL FORMS OF ADDICTION AND MENTAL ILLNESS LEAVE AN INDELIBLE MARK THAT CAN DISABLE US AS WELL AS ENRICH OUR LIVES AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF OTHERS.
You may just become a good EGG ( Empathic, Grateful, and develop Grit). Charles Tadros M.D. April 20, 2021 St Louis, Missouri