Posted by JohnL on February 5, 2001, at 19:17:42
In reply to Dr. Martin Jesen, posted by Jon Barnes on February 4, 2001, at 20:34:23
The previous post has Dr Jensen's address.
I have firsthand experience in being one of his patients. He is awesome, that's all I can say. Excellent bedside manners, excellent expertise in drugs and brain chemistry. He seems to have an uncanny gift in choosing which meds to try and to know what the results of each mean. He approaches a psychiatric illness kind of like a detective searching for clues.
He did not directly choose the specific drugs that ended up helping me a lot, but he did lay down the roadmap that led to those drugs. I only had one session with him. In that one session he layed out a map of 9 different drugs to try (3 in one class, 3 in another class, 3 in another class) for about one week each. This would provide clues. And it did. His system worked flawlessly, though I have to admit it was a real bummer each time I tried a new drug and didn't like it. I'm glad there were a couple in there that I like a lot. It would have taken me years to discover those drugs by conventional methods. He shortened it to about 3 months. Not bad after 10 years of getting nowhere.
You can pretty much get a good handle on his detective approach by reading and re-reading his book a few times. "The Successful Treatment of Brain Chemical Imbalance" is a must read in my opinion.
John
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