It is clear that some worries are helpful while others are not. Let’s call the first group “constructive” and the second “destructive.” When worrying is helpful, justified in the circumstances,…
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In life, one experiences alternating and sometimes mixed emotions of joy and sadness as well as of carefree laughter and deep frowning concerns. While joy and laughter are seldom experienced…
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Sanjay Gupta, the CNN Chief Medical Correspondent who is also a neurosurgeon, documented the personal instructions on meditation that Dalai Lama’s gave to him. The Dalai Lama taught him to meditate…
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In psychiatry, just as in any other branch of medicine, the real cause of a symptom may be hidden from the patient, the doctor or both. In psychiatry, the root…
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In a psychiatric practice, anxiety is the most common complaint among patients. But consider how common is it that a psychiatrist facing an anxious patient immediately concludes that the patient…
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