Clinical Psychiatric Assessment Methods for Complex PTSD
Complex PTSD doesn't always look like PTSD. There's not always a flashback. Sometimes it's chronic emptiness. Sometimes it's the same relationship ...Read More - Clinical Psychiatric Assessment Methods for Complex PTSD
How Evidence Based Care Plans Address Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Intrusive Thoughts
Everybody has, at one time or another, had a strange and unwanted thought creep into their mind. A glimpse of something sharp when they hold ...Read More - How Evidence Based Care Plans Address Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Intrusive Thoughts
When to Consider a Second Opinion on Your Mental Health Diagnosis
There is a version of this that happens quietly. Someone is diagnosed, treatment begins and somewhere along the way something doesn't add up. It ...Read More - When to Consider a Second Opinion on Your Mental Health Diagnosis
The Step-by-Step Process of Psychiatric Medication Titration and Progress Tracking
People start psychiatric medications expecting something like a painkiller. Take it, feel different, done. When that doesn't happen in week one, or when early ...Read More - The Step-by-Step Process of Psychiatric Medication Titration and Progress Tracking
What to Do If Your Medication Isn’t Working Yet
Three weeks in. Taking it exactly as prescribed, same time every day, and you still feel like the same tired, anxious version of yourself. So ...Read More - What to Do If Your Medication Isn’t Working Yet
What Happens If You Switch Psychiatric Providers Mid-Treatment
A move for work. A provider who retires. Insurance shifting and suddenly the old psychiatrist is out of network.Or something harder to say out ...Read More - What Happens If You Switch Psychiatric Providers Mid-Treatment
Is Complex PTSD a Disability?
Disability determinations depend on individual circumstances and documentation. Talk to a qualified attorney or disability specialist about your specific situation.Regular PTSD usually traces back ...Read More - Is Complex PTSD a Disability?
Why You Feel Anxious for No Reason?
Nothing is wrong. You know nothing is wrong. And yet something is sitting in your chest that you can't shake. You go looking for ...Read More - Why You Feel Anxious for No Reason?
How Objective Follow-Up Visits Measure the Efficacy of Your Mental Health Medications
A lot of psychiatric follow-ups go like this: the provider asks how you're doing, you say better or about the same, they renew ...Read More - How Objective Follow-Up Visits Measure the Efficacy of Your Mental Health Medications
What Is Inattentive ADHD and Why Is It Harder to Diagnose?
Most people would think of the child who cannot sit still when they think of ADHD. Bouncing, interruption, running instead of walking. That kid gets ...Read More - What Is Inattentive ADHD and Why Is It Harder to Diagnose?
