Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.

When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.