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Lady Gaga has hinted before about her history of depression — and the drug use that stemmed from it. But in a new interview on Lifetime’s “The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet”, the singing superstar (real name: Stefani Germanotta), candidly discusses the specifics surrounding the depressive episode she experienced after dropping out of college to [...] Read More

Tanning Mom Does New Jersey Woman Suffer From Tanorexia? New Jersey mom Patricia Krentcil is facing child endangerment charges stemming from accusations that the 44-year old took her young daughter to a tanning salon. Krentcil denies charges that burns on her 5-year old’s legs came from a tanning booth session and instead says her fair-skinned [...] Read More

The Scoop: In a new interview with the British magazine Fabulous, former Disney star Demi Lovato is finally opening up about the breakdown that propelled her to abandon a worldwide concert tour and enter rehab for three months in late 2010. As the now 20-year old Lovato recalls, spiraling drug use, bulimia, depression, and self-injury [...] Read More

Researchers have found that administering isoflurane, an inhaled anesthetic agent used during surgery, is as effective in treating severe depression as electroconvulsive therapy. Treatment at the University of Utah consisted of either eight to 12 treatments of bifrontal ECT or 10 isoflurane treatments over a period of 2.5 to three weeks. Patients receiving isoflurane were [...] Read More

Newly released audio of a raging Mel Gibson has raised serious questions about the troubled star’s mental state and whether this latest tirade, secretly recorded by director Joe Eszterhas, could be related to bipolar disorder. The expletive-laced rant features an angry Gibson screaming out accusations targeting Eszterhas and his frustrations with a film project the [...] Read More

News last month that Charlize Theron adopted a baby boy, combined with the star’s confirmation that she suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, or OCD, has left many wondering how the actress is coping with life as a new mom. “I have OCD, which is not fun,” she told an Australian radio show during a recent [...] Read More

We wanted to share with you a very special thank you card one of our clients we helped created for us after a stay with PCH  :) Read More

Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino, star of MTV’s controversial Jersey Shore, has confirmed a recent two-month stay in rehab for substance abuse. In a March 21, 2012 statement from the reality star, Sorrentino names an addiction to prescription medications used to “deal with exhaustion” as the reason he sought treatment. According to the New York Post, [...] Read More

In December, Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles announced that they will be closing their inpatient psychiatric services, outpatient psychiatric services and psychiatry residency training over the next year.  The hospital said in a statement that the closure will allow them to “focus on the institution’s core strengths while continuing to serve the community’s [...] Read More

An article in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published in December of 2011 is entitled “Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Preschoolers.”  The authors are based out of Norway, and they evaluated over two thousand children born in 2003 or 2004 in the city of Trondheim, Norway at the age of four using the [...] Read More

On Friday, December 16, PCH staff members convened to celebrate the Christmas Holidays.  Festivities began at the PCH office, where gifts were given out and a Secret Santa exchange took place.  Chef Sheri’s delicious food was supplemented with pizza from Pitfire.  PCH Treatment Center was fortunate to have two special visitors:  Navassa Hilbertz and Liz [...] Read More

PANDAS stands for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. PANDAS describes certain children who develop or have worsening of psychological problems including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), tic disorders such as Tourette’s syndrome, or new onset of agitation or severe hyperactivity in association with a Group A Streptococcal infection. Many of these cases have symptoms [...] Read More

Creative individuals have a disproportionately higher rate of mental illness, according to new research published in the November 2011 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry (1). Kyaga and colleagues used data from a Swedish registry to demonstrate that patients with bipolar disorder were over-represented in creative professions, patients with schizophrenia were more frequently found in [...] Read More

PCH Treatment Center was pleased to participate in the 2011 Southern California Recovery Summit, which took place on Saturday, October 15 at the Loyola Marymount Campus.  Steve Lapuk, MFT, the Director of our new Dual Integrative Recovery Program was on hand to answer questions and present information on the new program.  Dr. Seth Kadish of [...] Read More

Comprehensive Psychological Assessment Clinic The PCH Treatment Center Comprehensive Psychological Assessment Clinic offers state-of-the-art psychiatric, psychological and neuropsychological testing. Testing is conducted by the Director Sandra Sarnoff, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist with an extensive background in psychological assessment. Services are provided for participants of PCH Treatment Center programs, as well as for individuals outside of [...] Read More