Working Through Medication Changes
Have you ever had a bad reaction to a medicine? Or maybe it took you a bit while longer to get adjusted to a medicine that you needed to take to make your life...
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How to Deal with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)
Every year, millions of people deal with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and I happen to be one of them.
Tackling Appointment Anxiety
If you’re like me, any kind of doctor’s appointment comes with a lot of anxiety. Having mental health problems along with chronic illness requires a lot of appointments for me to try and cope with. While I know its important to keep the appointments, I’ve found myself canceling them in the past due to anxiety.
Insensitive Provider? Switch ASAP
I was first diagnosed with anxiety and depression when I was eight years old. My life was messy and chaotic.
Providing Mental Health Services
More than 1 in 7 kids in the US between the ages of 6 and 18 (7.7 million children, to be exact) have a mental health disorder as of 2016, and nearly half of...
Screening Tools
Have you ever gone to your doctor for a routine physical and while you waited you were asked to complete some surveys? Did these surveys ever containing sensitive questions? If this has happened to...
Antidepressants
For those coping with depression, antidepressant medications may be a very effective way to ease feelings of sadness and hopelessness. Antidepressants work by managing your mood through your brain’s circuitry. Your brain uses chemicals called...
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