Column for Martha's Vineyard Times

• What we have to fear is fear itself
  April 10, 2025


• Vote no on Question 4, promoting psychedelic use
  October 31, 2024


• Finding the unexpected
  August 21, 2024


• Thankful
  May 1, 2024


• Writer’s pause, a.k.a. writer’s block
  October 4, 2023


• Beyond traditional talk therapy
  March 22, 2023


• Pronouns, gender identity, and our community
  August 10, 2022


• The psychology of violence
  May 25, 2022


• Statistics show Island’s challenges with SUD
  February 9, 2022


• A safe harbor in a storm
  September 29, 2021


• A newfound awareness of death
  September 8, 2021


• Being a hospital patient
  June 30, 2021


• Friendship
  May 12, 2021


• Secrets
  March 17, 2021


• It’s time to change the conversation around substance use on-Island
  February 17, 2021


• Children of alcoholics and dysfunctional families
  January 13, 2021


• Why I have changed my byline
  November 11, 2020


• Strategies for pandemic helplessness
  October 28, 2020


• Pandemic anger
  September 2, 2020


• The power of the stories we tell ourselves
  April 13, 2020


• Coronavirus, fear, and anxiety
  March 18, 2020


• A personal story of family opioid and alcohol dependence
  January 29, 2020


• Ketamine, psychedelics, and new frontiers in psychiatry
  November 13, 2019


• Shh! Your clinician probably loves you
  October 16, 2019


• Sanity
  August 7, 2019


• The psychology behind taking medication
  June 26, 2019


• Procrastination and precrastination
  May 8, 2019


• Narcissistic abuse
  March 27, 2019


• Great stress-reduction tools
  February 13, 2019


• Self-compassion
  January 16, 2019


• Poverty
  December 12, 2018


• A bible of alternative treatments in psychiatry
  November 28, 2018


• A public health campaign for the Vineyard
  October 17, 2018


• Room for love and loss at Windemere
  September 12, 2018


• How and why we detach from reality
  August 15, 2018


• Sugar and mental health
  July 11, 2018


• The season of envy
  June 7, 2018


• What to do if you have a mentally ill family member?
  June 6, 2018


• Cannabidiol (CBD) before weed
  May 9, 2018


• Are you a highly sensitive person?
  March 28, 2018


• Why don’t you take my insurance?
  March 2, 2018


• Is there more than one of you?
  February 6, 2018


• The power of mindfulness
  January 17, 2018


• Weed and the developing brain
  December 12, 2017


• Beware the news
  November 7, 2017


• The ultimate alcoholism counselor
  October 4, 2017


• Questioning assumptions of modern psychiatry
  September 19, 2017


• Parental worry
  August 15, 2017


• When horrible things happen
  June 29, 2017


• Adverse childhood events and self-soothing
  May 24, 2017


• The dilemma of treating ADHD in children
  April 26, 2017


• Psychiatry and spirituality
  March 29, 2017


• Politics and mental health
  February 21, 2017


• How do I deal with seasonal depression?
  December 28, 2016

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