Author: Gary Warstadt MD

Of all the difficulties that I plan on writing about in this blog, this may be the most common.  Thinking is what humans do. It’s who we are. But sometimes, it gets the better of us. The official name for this is Generalized Anxiety Disorder. On a very fundamental level, we think because figuring things…

Let’s first take a quick look at what anxiety is.  Rather than define it, I will list some synonyms that spell out different flavors of anxiety.  These include words like nervous, jittery, jiggy, worried, keyed up and dread.  At one end it can blur into fear; at another, depression.  But unlike depression, it is more…

Why does depression even exist? Many times I have asked myself this question.  Because It doesn’t seem to make sense that nature would allow for such a disabling, apparently useless thing to happen, especially so frequently. I have come to believe that many of the things that we call mental illness occur because there is…

Depression seems to have several roots, which may come in different proportions in different people. Many people with major depression have a genetic predisposition to it.  It tends to run in families.  There are psychological components, often beginning in childhood and family experiences which may cause thought patterns that increase the likelihood of depression.  Then…