RON STERLING M.D. - PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOTHERAPY - SEATTLE, WASHINGTON
-- Updated May 20, 2020 --
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The mission of DearShrink was to provide you with easily-accessible, authoritative information and assistance from an award-winning psychiatrist and writer. This web site and its associated sites had been updated and maintained frequently between 2000 and 2013. They are in the process of being downsized to relevant content that will stay posted for archival and portfolio purposes.
Right: Ron Sterling -- Before and After (2000 and 2020, now age 74)
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A Brief Introduction to DearShrink.com™.
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DearShrink has been called the "Dear Abby" of Internet psychiatry. This site is filled with mental health care information, and answers to questions. However, it is in the process of being revised extensively to reflect its history and not to offer any online, video, telephonic, or in-person services. That major overhaul may take some time. I apologize for the messy status of the site while under deconstruction and wish to make sure that readers understand that there are many events, dates, and services noted in these pages which are out of date. Update dates shown at the top of each page will indicate the old age of much of that time-related information.
Thank you for visiting, and best wishes.
This page contains a summary of what can be found at DearShrink.
The main Advice destination at DearShrink is PsychAnswers.net, where Dr. Sterling provides links to his award-winning articles on mental health and social commentary. Most of Dr. Sterling's articles are responses to reader questions.
Our Mental Wellness Web page contains articles, information, and resources for understanding the factors in mental wellness -- self-appreciation, resilience, affiliation, negotiation, curiosity, exercise and leisure activities.
The DearShrink.com™ Mission.
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Dr. Sterling is a strong believer in life-long learning and inner-life development. This Web site and his focus on "always getting better" are manifestations of his own commitment to taking the next step in personal growth.
The mission of DearShrink.com was to not only furnish visitors, potential clients, and clients with information about Dr. Sterling and his private practice of psychiatry, but to also provide a Web site experience which was highly educational and to assist in reducing the stigma attached to many aspects of the mental health treatment environment.
However, since 2009, Dr. Sterling's mission has been to intensely focus on reading primary research literature and becoming comprehensively informed on the huge amount of knowledge that has been gained about the downside and upside of the attention deficit disorder brain since 2008. He has read in excess of 20,000 pages of primary literature since 2009 and published two editions of his book Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated 2011 and 2013. They are available on Amazon.com.
The scope of Dr. Sterling's reading and writing has made it impossible to continue the former mission of DearShrink.com, which was to provide readers with a broader collection of and links to mental health and wellness information. The many outdated pages still contain original writing by Dr. Sterling that has stood the test of recent time. However, over the next few months, Dr. Sterling will be dismantling and remodeling most of the DearShrink.com website.
Please go to Dr. Sterling's Conflicts of Interest Disclosure Statement for more information about Dr. Sterling's potential biases.
Dr. Sterling's Books are Available at Amazon.com and at ThinkTwiceAboutADD.com.
- Click here to find the paperback edition of Dr. Sterling's 2013 updated book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated June 2013 (tm).
- Click here to find a searchable pdf copy of Dr. Sterling's 2013 update of the book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated June 2013 (tm).
- Click here to find the earlier, 2011 paperback edition of the book: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated November 2011 (tm).
- Click here to find the Kindle edition of the 2011 paperback: Adult ADD Factbook -- The Truth About Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Updated November 2011 (tm).
Dr. Sterling has incorporated the findings reported in those earlier books into a book he is currently writing entitled The Dopamine Paradox -- Why America's Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness (tm).
The strength of Dr. Sterling's books are in their ability to arrive at a balance between scientific truth (which requires some technical and scientific language) and user-friendliness. They use language and concepts that are easy to understand and remember, without dumbing down the very important scientific findings about the upside and the downside of the ADD brain.
The Adult ADD Factbook will help you understand how the current narrow definition and the stigma related to ADD clearly subvert a true estimate of the prevalence of ADD and of many other dopamine deficiency conditions in the entire Western Hemisphere.
ADD is the current poster child for a large number of dopamine malfunction conditions that are significantly responsible for "nicotinism," alcoholism, obesity, many eating disorders, insomnia, fibromyalgia, the over-use of marijuana, cocaine, illicit methamphetamine, and opioids, and impulse-control problems of many types.
The Adult ADD Factbook will also allow you to learn about the genetics of ADD, the upside of ADD, and some of the cultural and social implications of the many dopamine deficiency conditions. It has been called "a game changer."
Thank You for Stopping By!
- -- Best wishes, Dr. Sterling
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