Category: depression

  • Last week, I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful and smart lady who unfortunately was diagnosed to have depression. She graduated from college last year but apparently was already having depression. She was given antidepressants for 6 months but mom noted she was just going “crazier.” I tried to communicate with her, she was…

  • Just got back from a vacation, and already its a bad start already. The gastric cancer patient, Barry has metastasized lymph nodes all over the abdomen, now. He’s not taking it well and so am I. Somehow I feel responsible for what has happened. Everytime a patient of mine who comes back either sicker or…

  • I saw a married couple a few days back. They were seeking alternatives for the husband’s diabetes despite taking medicines. What was significant about this case, was that after I have finished with the husband and he was doing some acupuncture treatments, I began asking the wife questions, due to the fact that on SCIO,…

  • Met my friends whom I have been with for the longest possible time. Everyone is now successful in their respective fields. And one of the friend asked me: “Don’t you get depressed when one of your patients died, that’s why I didn’t want to be in the clinical setting.” He is a hospital administrator for…