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.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Part 1

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” ~ Samuel Johnson Over the past many months I have had a number of Healthy Mind - Healthy Future readers request that I again run the two-part interview I had late last summer with...

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Part 2

“OCD is the biggest liar in the world.  Whenever I come back to it with a piece of evidence, it says I have to do it one more time.  I do it, and it comes back, and says it's not good enough.” ~ Unknown  As noted in last week’s column, over the past many months I have had a number of Healthy Mind - Healthy...

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Delusional Misidentification Syndrome

“The moment I laid eyes on her I knew she was somebody else, somebody I could love. And since somebody else never showed up, I did fall in love with her.” – Jarod Kintz   Mental disorders affect many millions of people worldwide.  In some cases, the psychological problems experienced are exceedingly rare and/or bizarre.  In...

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Voyager Syndrome

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese  ...

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Capgras Syndrome

 “The lesson of Capgras syndrome is that even our "normal" reality may be little more than a delusion.” - Thomas Grüter and Ulrich Kraft Mental disorders affect many millions of people worldwide.  In some cases, the psychological problems experienced are exceedingly...

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