Most individuals dealing with major depressive disorder rely on antidepressant medication to aid in symptom relief, allowing them to carry on their daily life. Many people find that antidepressants can make therapy more effective and play an important role in their recovery. Finding an antidepressant that works can be a difficult task, and oftentimes people …
Personality disorders are characterized by long-term patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving that are different from typical cultural expectations and cause problems or distress in functioning and personal relationships. They usually begin by early adulthood or late adolescence and are long-lasting. A personality disorder can affect an individual’s way of relating to other people, way …
Anxiety on its own is a healthy emotion to experience, and often motivates us to perform better in daily life. However, when anxiety becomes too intense and feelings of fear and distress hinder everyday activities, this is usually considered an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental health issue in the …
Everyone’s experience with mental health is different and unique. The journey of recovery is personal and individual, so the treatment that someone receives should be personalized. This is why professionals create mental health treatment plans before treating patients. What is a Mental Health Treatment Plan? A mental health treatment plan is a plan, usually a …
Many people choose to drink alcohol to alleviate their symptoms of depression. And at first, it may seem like it’s working. When they start drinking, they feel energized, happy, confident, and even carefree. However, after a while, they’ll start to feel drowsy, irritable, foggy, and confused. While alcohol may alleviate some depression symptoms in the …
With its growing legality in the United States and continuous discovery of medical uses, it is now a common belief that cannabis is a harmless drug. Many people choose to self-medicate with cannabis for a variety of medical conditions. Self-medicating can be dangerous for a variety of reasons: you don’t have any regulation or feedback …
While it’s normal and healthy to feel sadness sometimes, struggling with negative emotions and motivation on a regular basis may be clinical depression, a disorder that can significantly interfere with daily life and satisfaction. There are many different types of depression and mental disorders involving depressive symptoms; Dysthymia and major depression are two common and …
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a common mental illness that impacts over 2 million adults in the United States alone. It is also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented disorders out there. OCD is a serious condition that often interferes with daily functioning and mental wellbeing, and should be professionally treated when diagnosed. Unfortunately, there …
Many meaningful updates and alterations from the DSM-IV to the DSM-V will impact clinical diagnosis and treatment decision-making. One interesting major update falls within the mood disorders category. Mood disorders are disorders that severely impact emotional regulation and function, traditionally including all types of bipolar and depressive disorders. Depressive and Bipolar Disorders Now Classified Separately …
We all feel sad sometimes. After all, everyone has bad days. Maybe you even say you are feeling depressed when you are more miserable than usual. So, yes, depression is about being sad, but how do you know when sadness is actually clinical depression? The grey area between sadness and depression makes it hard to …
Bespoke Treatment focuses on non-medication treatments that work. We are the first boutique center in Southern California to specialize in personalized TMS therapy, Ketamine treatment, and psychiatry.
