I’m writing to say thank you for all of your help over the months and years since you began treating me in December 2021. Much has changed in what feels like a short period of time and despite always relying on the ingrained expectation that the current of one’s life tempers with age, these years have felt the opposite. Your practice revolutionized a life that nearly all around me had written off: even my father in the months prior to our first appointment would walk around the house in frenetic episodes claiming I am permanently disabled and nothing can be done. It’s a tall order to contradict friends, family members or society, especially when a patient’s own financial circumstances places additional constraints during the process. However, your ability to collect, hone in, synthesize, judge and sense moves society forward, person by person and treatment by treatment. It would be nice to believe I’m aging backwards and my sense of life’s speed is truly accelerating: the truth is your practice took a diseased person and gave them back the time they always should have had. You’ve helped my spiritual development, often posing ideas and questions to grapple with, while peppering in insight along the way.

“I am a physician and recently had the privilege of seeing Dr. Hedaya for a complex medical problem that had been worked up and treated by my doctors without producing much change in my symptoms or sense of wellbeing. I was impressed with the amount of time Dr. Hedaya spent with me but more importantly how thorough, skilled and genuinely concerned he was. His workup and subsequent follow-up produced a much more coherent formulation of the problem I was contending with and now four months out from our initial encounter I am feeling much better and have both renewed hope and the information I need to make decisions about my life and work. I am very grateful for the hard work and diligence that I know to be necessary to produce a physician of his integrity and skill level.”

Dear Dr. Hedaya, Mary and I know that she would not be here today if you had not accepted her for treatment in October 1998. As you know, we had been to Menninger’s, Mayo, and Johns Hopkins and, as far as I know, your "Whole Psychiatry" approach was "one of a kind" at that time. Since moving to Arizona, we are fortunate to have found Dr. Parrish, who admires your expertise and has worked with you to advance Mary's recovery. Our original Psychiatrist advised me that Mary, then 71 years of age, was afflicted with early stages of dementia that probably was not reversible. During our many months of searching for a cure this diagnosis was often suggested. If these doctors would see her at 75 years of age, I know they would be amazed. Mary now works with a trainer for an hour three days a week--weights and machines on Mondays and aerobics Wednesdays and Fridays. She has regained her self-confidence and looks and feels years younger than her age. We therefore believe in what you propose to do in your ability to provide years of "life worth living" to people who otherwise are facing living hell.

Dear Dr. Bob, I just came back from my asthma doctor. Passed the pulmonary function test with flying colors! It has been many years, since I have had 97% total breathing capacity. Also, the % capacity of my lungs not affected by the asthma has gone from 49% to 67%, which she says is EXCELLENT. This time instead of having to blow out 10 candles, I had to blow over 3 houses. First test, I did 2 ½. Of course, bull-headed me was going to finish the job, so I got the adrenalin going and down went the 3rd house. It almost took the wind out of me, but I survived. Of course, I was boasting about you & how you have changed the health of my life. She was smiling as I was speaking. She told me to send her regards, but that you might not remember her. It turns out that you two shared an office 20 years ago!