Forbes November 16, 2023
He was a 38-year-old veteran officer with the New York Police Department responding to a call one morning when the building he had just exited suddenly exploded, injuring him, civilians, other officers and killing one first responder. The devoted husband and father was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and was gripped by anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, which drastically changed his life. I recently met him through a colleague and his story resonated as it sounded like many of the patients I had cared for over the years.
He was placed on one medication after another with no clear benefit but lots of side effects. Finally in 2020, four years after his accident, he stopped all his medications...