Desert Wellness Psychiatry

04/06/2026

Ever felt like your brain is on a constant hunt for the next dopamine hit? 🙋🏻🧠🍰 For many with ADHD, that dopamine chase can sometimes lead down the path of emotional eating.
Studies show ADHD brains regulate dopamine differently, share genes linked to obesity, and struggle more with impulsivity. Boy, it’s going to take so much more work to be disciplined! (And I’m already exhausted)

🤔 Let me know if you can relate.
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04/04/2026

Emotions, like earwax, serve an evolutionary purpose. Don’t try to get rid of them. If they’ve built up into a mess, seek professional advice. My kid said she couldn’t hear—it was nasty in there!

04/03/2026

Love conditional on performance. This is a tough one to unlearn. Interesting how Joseph Campbell was right in that these stories repeat themselves. The symbolism is strong in this great scene of The Pitt. Prozac may turn down the noise but it won’t change what’s learned. Great show.

04/03/2026

Your world map was drawn by the child within. It’s time to put away the crayons and redraw it again. Inner child work is reparenting. To be critical is to keep the trauma circuits active. How are we suppose to heal when we are unkind to ourselves? Digging new song. Too bad she won’t be at this year.

03/31/2026

I got you! I’ve been around for a while. Have a general question for me? drop it below. Prozac vs Zoloft? CBT vs psychodynamic? Slytherin vs gryffindor? Follow for more

03/30/2026

Betrayal always involves a conscious choice. The part that hurts most is the deception—intentionally lying to exploit trust.
Hans betrayed Anna, Cady betrayed Janis and Damian, Judas betrayed Jesus. Betrayal is one of the hardest wounds to heal in therapy.
The work is hard, but healing is possible. 💛
trust

03/28/2026

03/20/2026

Be like Simba…you don’t become someone knew. You remember who you are. Beloved. Sounds like Nietzsche too. “Become who you are.” You must make space to understand yourself—to find yourself. Socrates said, “the unexpired life is not worth living.” That’s a bit intense but the message is know thyself. One you know yourself, you start to live a courage-based life instead of a fear-based one.

05/04/2025

I love this painting. Warm and cold colors. Dark and light. Young and old. Death and life. Memento Mori. “Anatomy Of The Heart” by Enrique Simonet x .johnnygonzalez

04/26/2025

The cowboy archetype. Carl Jung didn’t specifically describe the cowboy archetype but it symbolizes the individual within us who is independent, self reliant, and values freedom—protector, provider, and ready to teach its kiddos how to rough it. See you at stagecoach.

04/03/2025

“...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms —to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”— Viktor Frankl

10/05/2023

hmm... something to keep in mind.

The US Food and Drug Administration received more than 250 reports of patients experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviors while taking Ozempic or similar medicines since 2010, Reuters found in an examination of the FDA's adverse-event database.