What Does Return to In-Person Psychiatry Mean for You?

This transcript has been edited for clarity.

 Welcome back to the Brain Food vlog. I'm Dr Drew Ramsey, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, founder of the Brain Food Clinic, and host of this vlog, where we discuss what's going on with nutritional psychiatry, clinical practice, and mental health.

I've been trying to make a vlog post for what seems like a couple of months about what many of us are doing, transitioning back to practicing in person. Personally, I was practicing a mix of about 25% telepsychiatry and the rest in person. With the pandemic, that changed into 14 months of complete telepsychiatry. In the midst of that, there were also a lot of changes in my own personal therapy. I know a lovely, older Upper West Side psychoanalyst who didn't think he was going to do this video therapy thing. Now, a year later, he's not going to go back into the office at all. This has really changed our field, obviously.

What I've been wanting to talk about is the effect of that transition on us as clinicians. I've made lots of videos about how, before I went back in to see my first patient in person, I was in some ways both nervous and excited.