Non-prescription compounds can offer legitimate pain relief, but they require caution due to potential drug-drug interactions and individual variation in efficacy and safety.

“Just be mindful that just because it's natural, just because it's over the counter doesn't equate with 100% safety. Meaning get educated about the side effects and the adverse events. Get educated about the drug-drug interactions, the agent-agent interactions.”

Both medication and talk therapy are highly effective for treating various psychiatric conditions, including panic disorder and severe depression.

“we may be doing better than some other specialties in terms of actually causing therapeutic benefit for patients. We do help patients, the patients who suffer from, by the way, both medications and talk therapy have been shown to be extremely effective in many cases”