The Happiness Psychiatrist

01/22/2026

01/19/2026

⚠️ Today is January 19 ⚠️

Thirty-six years ago, on the night of January 19, 1990, Islamist terrorists in Kashmir unleashed a coordinated campaign of terror and hate against the indigenous Hindu minority:

📣 Threatening slogans were broadcast from mosques late into the night

💥 Loudspeakers screamed calls demanding Hindus Leave, Convert to Islam, or Die

🏚️ Homes were marked, Hindu women were threatened, and Hindu men were hunted

🚨The Exodus/Ethnic Cleansing:

In the freezing winter of 1990, nearly the entire Kashmiri Pandit Hindu population (around 400,000 people) fled their ancestral homeland of Kashmir:

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Families left with only the clothes on their backs

🏡 Homes, temples, libraries, and sacred sites were abandoned

😰 Many fled to refugee camps in Jammu and New Delhi, living for years in makeshift tents and overcrowded, squalid conditions

🦠 Heatstroke, poverty, disease, death, depression, and despair followed

This was not voluntary “migration”
This was ethnic cleansing

🕯️January 19 is now observed as Holocaust Day or Exodus Day by Kashmiri Pandit Hindus worldwide. It is a day we honor:

• Those who were murdered
• Those who died in exile
• An indigenous culture that was nearly erased from its birthplace

This day reminds us of:

❌ The evils of Islamist fundamentalism

❌ The silence of the global “human rights” community

❌ Decades of denial, minimization, and political discomfort around naming the inconvenient truth

🥀 From a trauma-informed lens, the psychological impact involves:

🪫Deep collective and individual trauma

🧬 Generational effects including:
• Complex grief and PTSD
• Identity fragmentation
• Cultural mourning
• A permanent sense of exile with no closure

And yet, Kashmiri Hindus preserved:

• Their language (Koshur) 💕

• Their Shaivite Hindu philosophy 🕉️

• Their love of learning, culture, arts, spirituality, and memory 📚

📰 January 19 reminds us that civilizations can be destroyed not only by violence but by forgetting. And **remembering** is an act of profound courage, defiance, conscience, and love 💝

Xoxo,
Dr. Ambardar

01/16/2026

If you or someone you love struggles with Binge Eating Disorder (BED), there is new hope. 💗

As an integrative psychiatrist who blends psychopharmacology with holistic care, I’ve seen how GLP-1s such as semaglutide (Ozempic) and tirzepatide (Zepbound) can dramatically reduce binge eating episodes (and even binge drinking behavior!) - often within the first 2–4 weeks of treatment. 🦋

👉 GLP-1s work by:

🌈 Targeting brain areas involved in reward-seeking and impulse control, such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex.

🌈 Decreasing food-related intrusive thoughts (“food noise”)

🌈 Slowing gastric emptying and promoting satiety and fullness faster

When combined with psychotherapy, trauma work, and lifestyle changes, GLP-1s can support deep, life-changing healing around food. 💕

If you’ve been struggling with binge eating disorder, it’s important to know that it’s not about willpower; it’s about neurobiology, and help is absolutely available 🌸

💌 At The Happiness Psychiatrist®, I provide GLP-1 therapy to patients throughout California and New York.

If you’re ready to explore whether GLP-1s could be right for you, please feel free to visit https://bit.ly/3B0vdOZ to learn more! 🦄

To your best mental health,
Dr. Ambardar 💕 😊 💗

01/01/2026

Happy New Year!! 🎉🥳 I hope 2026 brings you much happiness, excitement, good cheer, and success! 🩷🎇💛🎆💖

xoxo,
Dr. Ambardar 🦄

12/23/2025

Happy Holidays from our office to you! 🎅🏼
I hope you have a wonderful, peaceful, and happy holiday season! 🎄🔆🩷🌟

12/19/2025

I don’t get compared to gold every day but I’ll take it! 🌟 So very grateful for wonderful patient reviews like this 🙏

12/19/2025

So grateful for wonderful patient reviews like this 🙏

12/18/2025

Getting in the holiday spirit! 🎄🧑‍🎄🌲👯

12/15/2025

💯. Never Married and Happily Childfree. Freedom. Happiness. Choice. Peace. 💗

12/10/2025

🌷This topic came up in a therapy session today and it highlights a very common conundrum for parentified Adult Children.

🌷When does the cost of loyalty to our dysfunctional family systems become so high that it negatively impacts our mental health, our lives, our futures, and our happiness levels?

🌷ls it okay to gradually set boundaries, take some space, and start to source our self-esteem and self-love from within? (the answer is yes! 🩷)

🌷For more help on individuating from your difficult family of origin, I highly recommend the book “Leaving Home” by psychologist David Celani PhD 📚

xoxo,
Dr. Ambardar 🤗