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The Fire that consumes the memory of Amalek [personal photos MDMD]
I had a delightful moment today, practicing tele-psychiatry with a sweet ADD-ish patient who recently moved cross country and wants me to continue prescribing for her. It’s a jerry-rigged set-up, so we’ll see. Meanwhile, after we struggled to get her on Zoom and ended up using the phone, I ascertained that she was doing quite well. Her anxiety had abated. I checked my notes and saw that we’d scrubbed the sleep med that wasn’t working. She’d been having a terrible time, a vicious spiral of anxiety, insomnia and musculoskeletal pain. Sounded like fibromyalgia. So I suggested we switch to a homeopathic dose of the first antidepressant ever invented, amitriptyline. Presto change-o, anxiety, insomnia AND pain vanished! She pauses and realizes that she had totally forgotten about the pain. Being that she is a Jew and so am I, I could not resist the marvelous Purim lesson at hand. I told her she had proven herself a good Jew by forgetting