Seaside Oaks Psychiatry

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04/20/2023

Body dysmorphic disorder affects around 2% of adolescents and adults and is associated with serious conditions like eating disorders, substance use disorders, and mood disorders. It is often unrecognized, and social media use has emerged as a risk factor. Youth spend an average of 6-8 hours per day on screens, with much of that time on social media, which can perpetuate unattainable beauty standards and lead to body dissatisfaction. Previous research has linked frequent social media use to body image issues and eating disorders. However, a new study suggests that limiting social media use to one hour per day can improve body image outcomes in older teenagers and young adults after only three weeks. This study is the first to demonstrate a causal link between social media use reduction and enhanced body image.

07/23/2021

I have been treating psychiatric illnesses for more than 20 years. As you all know, severe depressive disorder is a chronic and impairing condition that doesn’t always respond to conventional pharmacotherapy, even when medication is combined with psychotherapy. It’s also known that conventional antidepressants can take several weeks (usually 4–12 weeks) to start working. In our desire to help those who have been failed by traditional treatments, we decided to incorporate ketamine treatments into our practice. Ketamine has a different mechanism of action to the antidepressants that we have been using for years. Ketamine is an N–methyl-D aspartate receptor antagonist that has a rapid effect on suicidal thoughts and depressive symptoms. There are some studies that show ketamine also provides benefits in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including PTSD. We are very excited to be offering ketamine treatments at Seaside Oaks Psychiatry and will be glad to see you for a consultation or to answer any of your questions.

Today's topic is still ADHD, but this time the question is about treatment.When discussing treatment for ADHD with my pa...
12/14/2020

Today's topic is still ADHD, but this time the question is about treatment.
When discussing treatment for ADHD with my patients or my patients’ parents, I am frequently asked: “Does ADHD medication hurt my child’s brain?”
According to a 2013 article from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry on psychostimulants, in therapeutic oral dosages, ADHD medication may decrease alterations in brain structure and function in individuals with ADHD when compared to unmedicated subjects. This means that actually being treated with ADHD medications normalizes and improves the structure and function of the brain.

12/11/2020

Today’s topic is ADHD and these are some questions I am frequently asked by my patients:

What percentage of people have ADHD?
We know that ADHD is an illness that has a prevalence of 8.7% among children ages 8 to 15. The prevalence in adults is 4.4%.

If I have ADHD, will I have it forever?
We know that ADHD has a chronic course. However, not everybody that has ADHD as a child will continue to have it afterwards. Some people may exit the diagnosis, or they will stop having enough symptoms to meet criteria to be diagnosed with ADHD. We know that 75% of the children that have ADHD will continue to have it when they become adolescents. Additionally, 50% of children with ADHD will continue to have the diagnosis as adults.

12/05/2020

According to data from NIH (“National Institute of Mental Health”), bipolar disorder affects an estimated 4.4% of U.S. adults at some time in their lives. A considerable amount of patients with bipolar disorder spend years diagnosed with MDD (major depressive disorder) before they are diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Being diagnosed with bipolar disorder can be difficult to grasp, mainly in the early stages of diagnosis. In response, we are starting a bipolar educational and therapeutic group. If you have bipolar disorder and you want to learn about the illness and find support, we invite you to join our group, “Living with Bipolar Disorder.”
In order to minimize risks of exposure during Covid-19, “Living with Bipolar Disorder“ will be run via zoom on Mondays at 6:00 pm. As soon as we are able to safely do so, we will move the group to in-person meetings. Our first group meeting will take place on December 7, 2020.
To sign up, you can call our office or request to join via our page. Please share with anybody that you feel will benefit from this group.

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