Considering Medication? What a Psychiatrist Wants You to Know
Mena Mirhom, MD September 09, 2021 “It felt like putting on glasses for the first time.” That is how one of my patients recently described the experience of being …
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The Forgotten Ally in the Fight Against COVID
Mena Mirhom, MD September 02, 2021 “But ma’am…if you don’t do this, you’re going to die,” I said in a last moment of desperation. Here I sat in the …
3 Powerful Lessons Simone Biles Taught the World
Mena Mirhom, MD DISCLOSURES July 29, 2021 Imagine working your whole life for a moment, only to find that moment taken from you in a way that you could …
Five Ways to Change an Antivaxxer’s Hesitancy
Mena Mirhom, MD DISCLOSURES August 13, 2021 As our battle with the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, so does the contentious conversation around SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. For many people, the vaccines …
Resilience: Our only remedy?
Mena Mirhom, MD Resilience is like patience; we all wish we had more of it, but we hope to avoid getting it the hard way. This wasn’t really an …
Beauty in Ashes: Reflections on Hidden Resilience After a Hospital Shooting
Mena Mirhom, M.D. Published Online:5 Jan 2018https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp-rj.2018.130101 Everything changed in an instant when the 16th floor of Bronx-Lebanon Hospital became a crime scene after a deadly shooting. In the …