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Psychiatry Atlanta

At Psychiatry Atlanta Dr. Ross Grumet provides a wide range of psychiatric services

1718 Peachtree Street NW Suite 481
Atlanta, GA 30309
404.685.9414

Dr. Grumet’s Blog

You Can't Get Away With It: Sleeplessness Hurts by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists

Long Haulers (COVID-19) And Gaslighting

Will psychiatrists see more young people with memory problems and chronic fatigue due to COVID-19 Long Haulers? Or will the problems be masked by Gaslighting?

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The Single Key To Knowing If You Are Addicted

When do actions such as smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol get you into an addiction? How does addiction begin? When does too much become a harmful habit?

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Insomnia And Insufficient Sleep by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists

Insomnia And Insufficient Sleep

Not getting enough rest? 2 main causes: insomnia and insufficient time for sleep. Perhaps sleep is our natural state and awakenings are the interruption.

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Adding Cream To Coffee

Psychiatric problems and habit-forming substance use are indications that your unique brain connectome or wiring diagram is changing.

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Catching Things Early - by Dr. Ross Grumet

Catching Things Early

Catching problems early may allow small steps to solutions before things cause harm

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A Psychiatrist Asks Three Questions About Sleep by Dr. Ross Grumet

ADHD and Sleep Apnea

Is It Your Fault? ADHA and Sleep Apnea

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Thoughts On Hypnosis, Smoking, And The Virus by Dr. Ross Grumet

Thoughts On Hypnosis, Smoking, And The Virus

Clinical hypnosis not magic but a valid way of getting control, deter smoking, and protecting yourself from feeling vulnerable to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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Ross F. Grumet, MD Receives 2020 Best of Atlanta Award

Ross F. Grumet, MD Receives 2020 Best of Atlanta Award

Ross F. Grumet, MD of Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists Receives 2020 Best of Atlanta Award

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Psychiatry Atlanta - Telepsychiatry by Dr. Ross Grumet

Telephone Replaces Travel To Office- Virus Precautions For Us All

All Psychiatry Atlanta appointments are by telephone at this time until further notice. Treatment with Dr. Grumet continues as usual.

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What I Am Learning About Psychotherapy by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists

What I Am Learning About Psychotherapy

What is Psychotherapy? Treatment or therapy by a trained licensed therapist aimed at changing or stabilizing psychiatric or psychological symptoms and behaviors

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What We Don't Know About Stopping Antidepressants by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists

What We Don’t Know About Stopping Antidepressants

Stopping antidepressant medication is often complicated. What We Don’t Know About Stopping Antidepressants.

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Treatment for an adult ADHD diagnosis is successful and sometimes life changing with coaching and FDA approved medication. Dr. Ross Grumet Explores the options.

Behind The Scenes In Adult ADHD

Treatment for an adult ADHD diagnosis is successful and sometimes life changing with coaching and FDA approved medication. Dr. Ross Grumet Explores the options.

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What is the difference between ADD and ADHD? Is ADHD Dangerous? Get by answers from Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists

Is ADHD Dangerous?

Is ADHD Dangerous? What is the difference between ADD and ADHD?

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Are depression, addiction, alcoholism, and anxiety really like medical conditions such as asthma or diabetes? The problems with medical analogies and suffering

Is Depression Really Like Asthma?

Why Medical Analogies Don’t Work That Well In Mental Health and Addictions You have a problem: anxiety or lack of focus or chronic unhappiness or overuse of alcohol. You feel different, weak, embarrassed, ashamed. You are told “It’s just like any other problem or illness- no different from having asthma or high blood pressure.” Why […]

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Alcohol, Sleep, Medication, and How Much Time Do You Really Have? by Dr. Ross Grumet

Alcohol, Sleep, Medication, and How Much Time Do You Really Have?

Medication for alcohol use problems coupled with sleep and psychotherapy can help with anxiety and depression. Dr. Grumet explores the options.

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Medication and Self Control by Dr. Ross Grumet of Psychiatry Atlanta

Medication and Self Control

Notice, I said “medication AND self control”, not “medication OR self control”. I think of putting medicine into my body as a method of improving my ability to achieve something I want. Analogies include putting on glasses to focus my vision; wearing shoes to protect my feet; using pencil and paper/ calculator/computer/cell phone to enhance […]

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Regular psychiatric checkups at Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists with Dr. Ross Grumet

Cycles, Self Control, And Checkups

It’s time to be proactive about mental health. Like annual physical exams, regular psychiatric checkups identify risks. Practice prevention for body and mind

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Traffic Issues in Front of The APS Office

Traffic Issues in Front of The APS Office

Prepare for some additional travel time if you are using Peachtree Road anywhere between 14th St and Roswell Rd. The utility poles are being set back by Georgia DOT/GA Power. The project started on 2/18/2019 and is estimated to go through November. Please leave extra time One alternative route is Northside Drive to Deering Rd, […]

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You Can't Get Away With It: Sleeplessness Hurts by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists

You Can’t Get Away With It: Sleeplessness Hurts

“I don’t need much sleep.” “I pulled an all-nighter.” “I can always catch up.” We have the illusion that we control what happens in our brains, that we can forgo a sleeping state in favor of a waking one without penalty. No, not true. There is a price to pay- you may decide it is […]

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Brain circuit changes: Permanent or Transient

My Biggest Mistake In Addiction Medicine

What is the biggest mistake I’ve made over the years in treating alcohol, tobacco, and other substance use problems (heavy use, problem use, addictions)? It’s the failure to remind myself to distinguish between two large groups of substance users, A and B. Which two groups? A little background: Think of the brain as billions of […]

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Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists office has moved. Dr. Grumet is at the same address in suite 481 in the south building. 

Come Visit Us in Our New Location

Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists office has moved, but not far. Effective 12/3/2018 come visit us in our new location at Suite 481 in the South wing of the building. Dr. Grumet is at the same address,  but in suite 481 in the South tower (we were in the North tower).  Here are easy directions to find our […]

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Psychiatry is Never Boring

So much is always going on in psychiatry that it’s easy to follow the 11th Commandment, “Don’t Be Bored.”  We are beginning to look at psychiatric problems not just in terms of DSM 5 diagnoses, and not just in terms of brain chemistry and genetics, and not just as the interactions of genes and environments […]

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Dr. Grumet writes about Adult ADHD as a decision making disorder with symptoms including anxiety, sadness, depression, and insomnia.

Adult ADHD: The Decision Making Disorder

Many adults have been hyperactive, restless, or inattentive when they were children. These problems may still be present, especially difficulty reading and remembering the beginning of a sentence when they get to the end. But what most interferes with successful living is a particular handicap: a lack of skill in making decisions, being able to […]

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Opioids, Anxiety, and Death from Dr. Grumet

Opioids, Anxiety, and Death

Deaths from opioid use are all around us.  Some may be suicidal behavior: you can almost see it coming when a heroin user is depressed and doesn’t seem to care much about herself or himself, and indulges in various risky behaviors (even injecting substances into my bloodstream seems an unusually dangerous thing to do when […]

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Xanax: Controlling, Reducing, Stopping - by Dr. Ross Grumet

XANAX: Controlling, Reducing, Stopping

Xanax is the stand in for all benzodiazepines (BZDs), but it may be more grabbing/intense/problematic than others (Klonopin, Ativan, Valium, etc.) They all work by attaching to the brain’s GABA-A receptors and increasing the amount of GABA (gamma amino butyric acid) in the brain, as well as increasing dopamine. GABA is the main substance in […]

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Xanax abuse should not be eclipsed by the opioid epidemic. Dr. Ross Grumet ask are physicians making the same mistakes in prescribing Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Restoril, Librium, Tranxene, and Serax as the overuse of opioids for chronic pain?

Dreaming About Xanax

I awoke from a dream: The whole world, everyone, is using Xanax or a related benzodiazepine (such as Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Restoril, Librium, Tranxene, Serax, and others). Some are also using a related sleep medication which affects some of the same GABA receptors (Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata). Are we physicians making the same mistakes we made […]

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Dr. Ross Grumet discusses Xanax: The Bad and The Beautiful, especially Xanax side effects, withdrawal and discontinuation

Xanax: The Bad and The Beautiful

The trouble with Xanax is that it works too well.” I have said this to my patients who are requesting prescriptions for this medication, generally people I am seeing for the first time who want to continue the medication they have been using over months or years. It works too well in the sense that […]

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You Already Have Freedom and Control, You Just Need A Little More. No Magic by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists

You Already Have Freedom and Control, You Just Need A Little More. No Magic

People come to psychiatrists or therapists for three main reasons: To change their thoughts, feelings, habits and actions, or skills in getting to some goal. To change relationships or social situations, including improving or ending these. To change their living or working environment or to receive something they deserve from another person or business or agency […]

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Dr. Ross Grumet Explores A Big Reason for Failure In Opioid Addiction Treatment.

One Big Reason for Failure In Substance Use Treatment Programs

What’s wrong with feeling normal? Why don’t opioid addiction programs start immediate treatment with buprenorphine (Suboxone, Subutex, Bunavail, and other forms of buprenorphine) or with naltrexone (in various forms including tablets and Vivitrol)? If treatment isn’t started with these medications, there is an 80% relapse rate after discharge. I saw a young woman recently, let’s […]

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Is it worth it to see a Psychiatrist? Get the most of this investment in yourself by being prepared. by Dr. Ross Grumet

Is Seeing A Psychiatrist Expensive?

Is Seeing A Psychiatrist Expensive? Being seen and treated by a psychiatrist is not an extravagant medical expense and is not mysterious. Find out the cost of the first visit and the approximate cost of follow up visits. Consider the rewards of any changes you can make and weigh this against the financial and time […]

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Even one or two drinks causes restless sleep. Dr. Ross Grumet provides helpful tips on getting a good night's sleep without hitting the bottle.

Alcohol or Sleep

Drinking at bedtime doesn’t help with sleep time. Click HERE to learn about how even a few drinks causes restless sleep.

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Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) by Ross F. Grumet, M.D.

RDoC: What is That?

When you are asked to think of a future meal, like a “vegetable plate”, do you know what you are dealing with?  A brilliant chef’s hot farm fresh masterpiece with exciting variations on your favorite tastes? Yesterday’s sour cold mashed potatoes and kale? Something in between? At least you know food without meat is on […]

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Invocations, meditations, and prayers for sleep to help with insomnia

Invocations and Prayers for Insomnia

Invocations, meditations, and prayers for sleep to help with insomnia posted by Dr. Ross Grumet on Sleep Advocate.

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Dr. Ross Grumet: Loneliness is a persistent feeling of isolation. Persistent is key to diagnose loneliness/depression opposed to normal human condition of feeling lonely or sad

Loneliness and Other New Findings

Loneliness has been defined for treatment and diagnostic purposes as comprising a persistent sense of lack of companionship, of feeling left out, and of isolation. This condition of loneliness has been linked to the accumulation of the substance amyloid in the brains of people who are at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.(JAMA Psychiatry,2016;73(12):1230-1237). Together with mild […]

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Benzos, Sleep, Memory, Dementia

Benzos, Sleep, Memory, Dementia

The following post is recommended: “Benzos, Sleep, Memory, Dementia” See the Sleep Advocate website for more info on dementia issues with some sleeping pills (benzos).  

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Dr. Ross Grumet has A Question for You from Psychiatry Atlanta (psychiatryatlanta.com)

Ask a Question to a Psychiatrist

I need your help in preparing an information manual for potential patients and those considering a psychiatric visit. Please CLICK HERE to answer a one question (confidential) survey. Thanks, Dr. Ross Grumet

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Improve Your Performance. Dr. Ross Grumet helps you develop an individual plan. Do not let ADHD, depression, or other issues stand between you and success

Improve Your Performance – Meet Your Deadline

Whether facing an important corporate event, big test, sports competition, or a major life event, you need a personalized plan.  You must address stress, attention , and sleep to meet, or even exceed your goals.  I help you with all three. What are you preparing for? Corporate Meeting or Review A Big Test or Exam, […]

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A Psychiatrist Asks Three Questions About Sleep by Dr. Ross Grumet

A Psychiatrist Asks Three Questions About Sleep

As I see a new patient I want to know: Do you generally feel rested when you wake up and start the day? How long does it take you to fall asleep? How much total time do you spend in bed each day, and how much total time are you asleep? Each of these questions […]

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Dreams and the Big Bang by Dr. Ross Grumet, The Sleep Advocate

Dreams and the Big Bang from Sleep Advocate

Great post on Sleep Advocate website about Dreams and the Big Bang.  The post suggests that dreams are primitive thoughts & emotions like the Universe after The Big Bang.  And even when we awake the nighttime brain machinery influences us like those early cosmic forces. Click HERE to read the entire post.  

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Listening To Insomnia by Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatry Specialists in Atlanta, GA

Listening To Insomnia

One simple point about sleep difficulties, which we personalize as “Insomnia”:  Consider it as a signal,  a message, something that deserves your attention. If you are not falling asleep or staying asleep (and we know sleep is a vital function), then your body is telling you something. (Note: As a physician, my first concern is […]

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Applying Pascal's Wager to sleep to reduce the risk of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and other issues is a good bet says Dr. Ross Grumet

Applying Pascal’s Wager to Sleep to Reduce Risk of Dementia

Applying Pascal’s Wager to sleep to reduce the risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, and other issues.  Dr. Ross’ Wager: believe that better sleep reduces risk for brain damage. Click HERE to learn more about Sleep and Dementia: A Version of Pascal’s Wager.  

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Keep Calm and Meet Your Deadline with Dr. Ross Grumet of Atlanta Psychiatric Specialists

Keep Calm and Meet Your Deadline

Are you facing a big test, sports competition, or a major life event?  You need a personalized plan.  You must address sleep, attention, and stress to meet your deadline. Click HERE to learn more about a Personal Prime Performance Plan and meet your deadline.  

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Dr. Ross Grumet of Psychiatry Atlanta and Psychiatry Palm Beach examines the impact on the physician or therapist when a patient decides to stop medication

Decisions to Stop Medication

People stop medication; that’s a fact of life. I want to show how this impacts the physician or therapist. What swirls through my mind/brain when a patient tells me he or she is thinking about stopping a medicine? First, has she already stopped it and is just giving me a heads up? Second, what will […]

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Inspired with a sense of awe by a Richard Dawkins quote from the book

A Sense of Awe

I have been reading the Steven Pinker’s “The Sense of Style” and he quotes Richard Dawkins: We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born… because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively […]

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New Year's Resolutions: Why? From Dr. Ross Grumet at Psychiatry Atlanta

New Year’s Resolutions: Why?

Why do we promote and participate in January 1 Resolutions? We could have started doing whatever it is a month ago and be well into this better way of life by now. The issue could be a plan to improve sleep, lose weight, write a blog, show love, or bring about any other future.  A […]

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Welcome to my blog. Check back often as I will be posting on areas of interest on psychiatry and other topics.  

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