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Comment on by Isabel Alder

Isabel Alder — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:08:31 +0000

Regarding the article on Sleepwalking and your experience with medication (was it Ambien?) I just wanted to thank you (very much) for sharing that and helping others prevent more unwanted and unnecessary health issues! Thank you also to the previous commentator as I will try to make time to try meditation and see if something better can work!

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Comment on by Z.

Z. — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Hello Dr. Lloyd, this comment has to do with your article about sleepwalking in the Huffington Post. I too have suffered from insomnia for many years and tried everything that you mentioned in your article. I had to take Ambien for many years to get to sleep, sometimes quite a significant amount. However, I did not want to take this drug anymore for a variety of obvious reasons. A friend of mine persuaded me to try meditation. I was extremely reluctant as I despise religion of all kinds. However, I did go to the sitting group out of a very real necessity. It was a secular group. That night, I fell asleep without any drugs. Since then, I have been going to sitting groups and have found that in particular Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR program really works. With this program, I’ve been able to stop taking the Ambien and am sleeping much better now. Something for you to try, I highly recommend it. Best of luck.

Comment on by shelley

shelley — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 19:24:08 +0000

i just came across your “Children as Caregivers: Saving the Saviors”
article. i am so happy that children have help these days. i was 7 years old, an only child, living with my single mother, uncle & grandmother, when my grandmother had a stroke. That day ended my childhood – I became her caretaker. By the time she passed away (I was 15), that’s all I knew how to do & all I thought I was good for, be the ‘caretaker”. It’s taken me 52 years to understand why I’m the way I am. Hopefully, with the help available these days, kids will have healthier childhoods & adulthoods.

Comment on by judith eckman-jadow

judith eckman-jadow — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:24:35 +0000

Dr., I greatly enjoyed your review of “A Dangerous Method” and concur completely with your interpretation of the shortcomings of the film. Thank you for writing it!

Comment on by Kristen Joyce

Kristen Joyce — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:17:26 +0000

I just read your opinion of Suboxone versus methadone. And while everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion, I would like to correct some blatant misconceptions you are perpetuating. You say that a client of a methadone clinic must go EVERY day, no exceptions. That is not true. If you stay clean and comply with all the stipulations, you can earn up to 6 take homes. You said that areas around the methadone clinic become high crime areas “as drugs and stolen goods are bartered in the blocks that surround the site”. I dose in Weymouth Mass, and the mobile van comes to the parking lot next to the police station, and it has for years. There are NO problems. I don’t recommend methadone for someone their first time trying to get clean. Or the second. But I’m nine years in and I’ve tried everything. I should be dead, lucky I’m not, and very grateful I tried methadone. I have been clean for almost 5 months, and I’m getting things back in my life that I didn’t think I would. So as a doctor I expect more of you…don’t discourage someone away froma treatment that could possibly save their life. And talking poorly about methadone clinics in general is mean…you should just be encouraging people to get clean anyway that works for them!

Comment on by K.Sherman

K.Sherman — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:24:47 +0000

Hello, Dr. Sederer: I read your Huffington Post article about Pharmaceutical advertising, and I have a comment about your encouraging consumers to seek unbiased information. I agree that reputable websites are a good source of unbiased evidence-based information. However, I would have stopped there and NOT gone on to advise googling the topic. There are all kinds of information and opinions on the internet, often NOT evidence-based and often sponsored by big pharma. Of all areas of inquiry, I have found that for medical information, careful evaluation of your sources is the MOST critical to getting trustworthy information. I would never just say “google it.” Respectfully,

Comment on Opinion by Christine Carter

Christine Carter — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:19:13 +0000

You hit the nail on the head. My youngest daughter was diagnosed as rapid-cycling Bipolar when she was 4 yrs. old. We never know if she’s going to wake up as a ‘teddy bear,’ or as a ‘grizzly bear.’ Life has been extremely difficult for our family. We nearly fell apart. As you so stated, medications seem to have little, to no affect in calming her symptoms. She’s been on dozens of meds over the years. IF they helped at all it was very mild and short lasting. She’s 17 now and the emotional pain she feels is devastating. I, too, am Bipolar as is her biological father. She got the worst of both worlds…

Comment on by Kim

Kim — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:21:07 +0000

Thank you for your insightful post on rapid cycling bipolar disorder at the Huffington Post. It’s is the most spot one description of that type of boplolar disorder I’ve ever read. I have and my life quality has dwindled to almost nothing since I was diagnosed. Having taken all sorts of pills and talked to many therapists, I still only have small periods of time where I feel better and feel hopeful. The influence of external factors cannot be stressed enough!!! Thank you again.

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