Mark D Rego, MD

My plan was to make my presence as a psychiatrist known to the medical community. This, I hoped, would coincide with the blossoming knowledge about psychiatric problems among medical patients. read more

So, let’s begin today with a look at the mental health fallout from life during a global pandemic. Specifically, I’m looking at life during a pandemic, not from having COVID itself or related experiences like losing a loved one to COVID. read more

Fernando B. is a young, talented weaver who lives in a remote Andean city in Peru. He stayed in his room for two years because terrifying voices and paranoid thoughts plagued him. His mother came to our clinic, the Ayacucho Mental Health Project, desperate and helpless. read more