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Founded by Double Board Certified Psychiatrist Dr. Rohit Aiyer, we blend Neuroscience, Research & Expertise to offer distinguished Mental Health Care.

10/20/2026

Daylight saving ends Sunday, November 1. It sounds minor, and it isn't; the shift reliably disrupts sleep, focus, and mood for several days.
The fix is mostly anticipation: move your schedule gradually rather than all at once, hold a consistent wake time, and get outside early.
A rough few days is expected. Several rough weeks are a different conversation, especially if it happens every year.
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10/17/2026

“These are considered very different conditions, but they actually overlap.”

Dr. Rohit Aiyer on ADHD and chronic pain.

ADHD makes it difficult to concentrate, focus, and sustain attention. Chronic pain back, neck, shoulder, joint pain, fibromyalgia-pulls attention toward itself constantly.

Put those together, and each one makes the other worse. When your focus is stuck on the pain, you can’t concentrate on anything else, and that exacerbates the ADHD symptoms too.

It’s October, which is ADHD Awareness Month, and this is a connection worth knowing about. If you have concerns about both, it’s worth seeing a pain management specialist alongside a psychologist or psychiatrist.

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10/14/2026

Dr. Rohit Aiyer at Psych Congress 2026 in New Orleans last month.
Five days of lectures, poster sessions, and conversations with researchers and clinicians working on the same problems: metabolic psychiatry, perinatal prescribing, new trial data across bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression.
This is the part patients don't see, and it's the reason treatment recommendations here reflect current evidence rather than what was standard a decade ago. Psychiatry moves. Care should keep up.
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10/12/2026

Every October, people start describing the same thing: lower energy, heavier mornings, less interest in everything, and no obvious reason for it.
Light is a stronger input than most people expect. It sets the circadian clock, and sleep and mood track it closely. For some, that's a mild seasonal dip. For others, it meets criteria for depression with a seasonal pattern, which is a diagnosable and treatable condition.
The distinguishing feature is recurrence. If it arrives every autumn and lifts every spring, that's a pattern, and patterns respond to treatment better than willpower.
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10/09/2026

If you've been wondering about ADHD for a while, here's what an evaluation actually involves.
A full history going back to childhood, standardized rating scales, careful screening for conditions that look the same, and a direct conversation about treatment options, including what each one would mean for you specifically.
No checklist will settle this. An evaluation will.
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10/07/2026

October is ADHD Awareness Month, and the adults getting diagnosed now are largely the ones who didn't look hyperactive as kids.
They looked distracted. Disorganized. "Bright but not applying themselves." And because the inattentive presentation doesn't disrupt a classroom, nobody flagged it.
Here's the part that matters more than the list: every symptom above also appears in anxiety, depression, and chronic sleep deprivation. A checklist on the internet is not a diagnosis, and treating the wrong condition costs people months.
Dr. Aiyer offers comprehensive adult ADHD evaluations in Manhattan Beach.
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10/05/2026

The most common reason people delay a psychiatric evaluation is simply not knowing what one is.

So here's the honest version. It's mostly listening. A full history: symptoms, timeline, sleep, stressors, medical and family background. What you've already tried and how you responded, because that shapes everything after it.

Then the part that gets skipped most often: ruling things out. Thyroid conditions, sleep disorders, medication effects, and substance use mimic psychiatric conditions constantly. And anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma share enough symptoms that sorting them apart is the actual work.

You leave with options explained in plain language: what's recommended, why, and what the alternatives are.

No judgment. No rush. Just a clear picture and a plan.

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10/04/2026

The most common reason people delay a psychiatric evaluation is not knowing what one is.
It's mostly listening. A full history, what you've already tried, and a careful look at what else could be producing the same symptoms, because thyroid problems, sleep disorders, and medication effects all mimic psychiatric conditions regularly.
The overlap is the real work. Anxiety, depression, ADHD, and trauma share a lot of surface features, and treating the wrong one wastes months.
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10/02/2026

More than one in five American adults lives with a mental illness in any given year.
That means it isn't rare, it isn't unusual, and it almost certainly includes people you see every week without knowing it.
The gap worth closing is between how common these conditions are and how long people wait to be evaluated. Treatment works better earlier.
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