Dr. Edward Ratush is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Co-founder of SOHOMD (www.sohomd.com) - a national Teletherapy and Telepsychiatry platform for integrative and personalized mental health care. Dr. Ratush's areas of specialty are in Addiction, Sexual Dysfunction and Mental Health, and the efficacy of telepsychiatry services.
For the past 14 years, Dr. Ratush has served as Medical Director at the Center for Great Expectations (https://www.cge-nj.org/), a NJ-based organization that provides transformational (behavioral health) substance use and mental health treatment for women, teens, children, men, and families impacted by trauma, abuse and neglect.
Ratush holds a medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine and was trained in Sex Therapy at Rutgers University. He completed his Psychiatry Residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center, and is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
"Your identity — how you see yourself — strongly determines whether you will mask your depression or not... People with smiling depression think, 'I have too many responsibilities right now to be depressed,' or 'I can't acknowledge these feelings when others have it worse,'" Insider, Nov 17, 2022: https://www.insider.com/guides/health/mental-health/smiling-depression