by Nassir Ghaemi | Jan 30, 2023 | Curbside Consults
Q. I have an 18 year old female with a history of depression who had been stable on citalopram. She had never had a manic/hypomanic episode. She complained of diminished libido and chose to switch to bupropion rather than add a medication to address it. We decided to...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Jan 9, 2023 | Curbside Consults
Question: If you see a new patient and you’re recommending discontinuation of amphetamines due to side effects (like high anxiety) and it leads to patients considering discontinuing care with you, how much will you work with them and prescribe for the time...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Jan 9, 2023 | Curbside Consults
Question: In one of the last lectures I attended, our lecturer expressed his views, that borderline personality disorder to him, isn’t really a personality disorder.. and that he prefers the psychodynamic view of the condition, in that.. it’s more like a...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog posts
A few decades ago, the Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher made an unusual claim. People with delusions use the same rational process as non-delusional people. The distinction between being “psychotic” – that is, having delusions or hallucinations – and being...
by Nassir Ghaemi | Dec 1, 2022 | Education
The diagnosis of ADD is typically made when a person has marked inattention, or distractibility, along with “executive dysfunction”, or disorganization. In adults, there is usually not an inability to sit still in classrooms (mistakenly labeled “hyperactivity”) since...
