Articles & Updates

Glenn Miller, M.D. is a weekly contributor to the Santa Barbara News-Press. His column, Healthy Mind – Healthy Future, can be found every Saturday on page A2. The topics for the column are often initiated by personal questions from the readership audience.

Voyeurism

“We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought a do is get outside their own house and look in for a change.” – John Michael Hayes Voyeurism is the sexual interest in, or practice of, spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other activity usually considered being private...

Pathological Gambling

"He that hastens to be rich hath an evil eye, and considers not that poverty shall come upon him." - Proverbs 28:22 Pathological Gambling disorder, also known as Compulsive Gambling, is the most common type of impulse control disorder in the world. ...

Agoraphobia

“Soon I'll have to leave my room. An easy quest you would assume. So why can't I remove this dread and ease the panic in my head.” – Jessa Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder. It is defined as a deep dark fear of being outside or otherwise being in a situation from which one either cannot escape or from which escaping would be...

Schizophrenia

"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair." – R. D. Laing Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to have normal emotional responses, to think logically, and to behave normally in social situations. Often wrongly referred to...

Tourette Syndrome

“There's a point in a friendship with someone with Tourette's... where they ask, I've always wondered - can you stop it? Can you, like, just stop?” – Colin Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that appears in the form of uncontrollable body and/or facial tics, and sometimes verbal tics. Once thought to be rare, and most often...