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To get a medical referral for therapy, you may need to discuss any mental illness or distressing symptoms with your doctor. Ask them if they know of a psychologist, psychiatrist, or counselor in your area who takes your insurance plan. Word of mouth If you know someone in your personal ...
Fostering hope has been shown in various research studies to help decrease symptoms of depression and improve mental health, self-esteem and the ability to function with a chronic illness. In a study of older adults, hope was linked to better physical and mental health and health behavior outcom...
Bill wrote a comprehensive essay describing his perceptions of himself psychologically, his struggles with bipolar illness, his work history in the social work milieu, and his motivation to receive a social work degree. “As an individual, and as a former psychology major, I understand...
[24]. Furthermore, special training for mental health screening has been recommended for primary care providers, who serve as the first point of access to the treatment of MNS disorders within the health care system [30]. Lastly, the negative perception of mental illness and psychiatry means ...
Challenging because you deal with people who have mental health problems, I learned that mental illness is just like any other illness and these people need medical care and with treatment can live a normal life. It is a challenging job because some residents can be violent but at the same ...
October is the month we turn our attention to mental health, with World Mental Health Day on the 10th, Mental Illness Awareness Week from the 2nd to the 8th and National Depression Screening Day on the 7th. As we focus on matters of the mind, I’d like to take this opportunity to disc...
“Sadly, the number of suicides will continue to rise unless we have major changes in this country when it comes to mental illness, health care, overall costs of living and gun control,” she said. Having health insurance for long-term care ...
Many years ago, I said to one of my doctors that I believed undiagnosed and/or untreated brain injury causes much mental illness. If we treat the neurons, then the illness will clear up. He hadn’t thought of that before. I hypothesized further: Many people wouldn’t remember concussions ...
the experiences that I went through with my son, starting with the first manifestation of his illness and our journey through numerous subsequent episodes. It's also to provide commentary as a parent and psychiatrist on issues that these experiences bring up, such as how the di...