Finding effective treatment for mental health conditions is a journey that often involves a combination of therapy and medication. These two treatment modalities, when used …
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Adolescents and Suicide Prevention: A Guide for Clinicians
The teenage years are often marked by profound emotional and developmental shifts. Teens today are grappling with not only the timeless struggles of identity, acceptance, and …
Navigating Grief: Expert Tips for Healing and Processing
Few human experiences are as universal as grief. We will all, at some point, find ourselves grieving that which we once had, but now is gone. For most of us, significant losses …
Navigating Antipsychotic Medications: A Guide for Patients and Families
Antipsychotic medications, sometimes called neuroleptics, are prescription drugs used to manage psychosis spurred by mental health conditions like treatment-resistant …
18 Mental Health Activities for Coping With Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and More
Self-care is key to maintaining good mental health, but how do you know which mental health activities will have the most positive impact on your mental well-being? While eating …
How to Talk About Mental Health at Work
Everyone has mental health, and whether or not you have a mental health disorder, everyone has bad mental health days. So, what do you do when your mental health is getting in the …
How to Start a Conversation about Mental Health
Taking care of your mental health is important and shouldn't be ignored. We don’t always realize we’re struggling and having a loved one check in with us about their observations …
PMDD Vs. PMS: When Premenstrual Symptoms Are Beyond “Normal”
All women go through a lot in their daily lives. From work stress to dealing with relationships and financial obligations to parenting and making sure the kids have everything they …
A Parents’ Guide: Anxiety and Depression in Children
Contributor: Corrine Webb-Kay, MD, MSc – Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist Times have been hard, and they don’t seem to be getting any easier. It’s one thing to be an adult …
TMS Therapy: A Life-Altering Treatment for Depression That Won’t Go Away
Have you been down, sad, or depressed and feel like you’ve tried everything? Feel like you hit a wall? Tried what seems like every therapy and medication under the sun? You bought …
Depression Medication: How Psychiatric Treatment Can Help
Today there are more teens, young adults, and elderly people suffering from depression than ever before, and yet, in many spheres, the subject remains taboo—to be whispered about …
Mental Health Medications: A Comprehensive Guide to Psychiatric Treatment
Taking the first step on anything can be trying. Newness has all sorts of natural barriers to it, plunging into the unknown. When that unknowability applies to your own mental …
