“Of all the people I’ve diagnosed with a psychotic disorder,” said Ryan Sultan, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, “I can’t think of a single one who wasn’t also positive for cannabis.”
Physicians now rely on a framework for assessing capacity that was published in 1988 by the researchers Paul Appelbaum, a psychiatrist, and Thomas Grisso, a psychologist.
If your allergy symptoms are bringing you down, it can sometimes be difficult to know whether you’re depressed or you’re feeling “. . .so tired because my body is sick,” said Philip R. Muskin, MD.
A Columbia study finds that adolescents who use cannabis recreationally are two to four times as likely to develop psychiatric disorders then teens who don’t use cannabis at all.
For those across Asian cultures . . . one-on-one talk therapy can feel uncomfortable, said Warren Ng, MD, medical director of outpatient behavioral health.
When paired with therapy, some evidence-based apps like Mindshift can actually be beneficial, said Anne Marie Albano, PhD, professor of medical psychology (in psychiatry).
