One of the skills that keeps us healthy is compassion. This is also an important skill needed to recover from health. Before any change occurs, acceptance of what is currently present and manifested is vital.
Not wanting to take medication is in basic human nature. Often times having to take medication for illness comes with an inherent guilt which can be reinforced by our society and our premorbid attitudes. To deal with this guilt is a vital skill to learn using compassion.
About Qazi Javed
Dr Javed is a holistic psychiatrist who practices in Austin. He likes to incorporate multiple modalities to help people strengthen their healing powers. He likes to balance right brain treatment modalities (like dream work, shadow work, spiritual and psychodynamic therapy etc.) with left brain approaches (evidence based pharmacotherapy, herbal medicine, functional medicine etc.).
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