Farees Ahmad Khan is a physician.

How lifestyle medicine can change your life

Physician
August 27, 2024

You read many articles and watch countless videos online where life coaches offer advice on how to fix your life. This might seem like one of those boring articles. Well—I hope not! Maybe just a little … but stick with me.

Today, I want to discuss a relatively new branch of medicine called lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine focuses on everyday practices that can both prevent and cure many chronic illnesses, sparing …

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How lifestyle medicine can change your life

How compassionate communities can transform the lives of schizophrenia patients

Conditions and Diseases
August 19, 2024

While working as psychiatrists, we have the pleasure of working very closely with our patients as well as their friends and family. During these interactions, we get to know a lot about their struggles. In this blog, I want to focus on what we as a community can do to help patients as well as their families dealing with schizophrenia.

I saw an elderly lady admitted to the inpatient psychiatry unit …

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How compassionate communities can transform the lives of schizophrenia patients

Unlock your child’s potential: the power of nurturing hidden talents

Conditions and Diseases
August 16, 2024

What do you do to make your child confident? Do you tell them that they are amazing? Do you say that they are smart? Do they believe you?

Today, I am going to share the story of an autistic child who was brought to the doctor after a severe mental breakdown at school. His school had completely given up on him; they asked his parents to transfer him to another school …

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Unlock your child’s potential: the power of nurturing hidden talents

Mindfulness: Beat the overwhelm and find your focus

Conditions and Diseases
August 12, 2024

Does it sometimes feel like you are a teeny tiny person in a world that is so big, surrounded by giants doing their giant people things? Does it feel like, to keep up, you have to do ten thousand tasks? And somehow, even when you manage to complete those ten thousand things, it’s still not enough, and there are ten thousand more waiting. Just writing these lines is giving me …

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Mindfulness: Beat the overwhelm and find your focus

How anxiety can be your biggest competitor and ally in achieving success

Conditions and Diseases
August 6, 2024

Did you ever have a competitor in life who challenged you in every test and every election for a leadership role? If so, today, I would like you to imagine that person and replace them with an emotion that we, as psychiatrists, frequently encounter during our practice – anxiety!

Much like that pushy competition, anxiety can feel overwhelming and challenging. However, it also has the potential to push us to achieve …

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How anxiety can be your biggest competitor and ally in achieving success

Are you storing your medications wrong?

Medications
August 3, 2024

Today, I want to talk about how creative humans are. As physicians, we encounter patients with ideas that amaze us every day and make our lives interesting, to say the least. The best ones are often the elderly, who have years of experience and unique ways of getting things done that differ greatly from the current generation.

I came across an elderly patient in the office who had previously been diagnosed …

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Are you storing your medications wrong?