Mental Health Resources and Information
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
"Don’t wait for a health care provider to ask about your mental health. Start the conversation."
Talking With Your Doctor
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
"Patients and health care providers share a very personal relationship. Doctors need to know a lot about you, your family, and your lifestyle to give you the best medical care."
What Is a Psychiatry?
Tips for Talking With a Health Care Provider About Your Mental Health
What Is a Psychiatric Evaluation?
"Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders."
What Is a Psychiatric Evaluation?
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
What Is a Psychiatric Evaluation?
"A psychiatric evaluation is a clinical interview that typically happens during the first visit with a psychiatrist. Its purpose is to identify the problems and formulate a diagnosis so that you can receive the best treatment. "
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
"As a psychiatrist, I often hear from my patients during their initial visit about how long they’ve been putting off seeing a psychiatrist out of fear. They also talk about how nervous they were leading up to the appointment."
5 Things to Know Before Attending Your First Psychiatry Appointment
Precision Psychiatry
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
What to Expect During Your First Psychiatry Appointment
"Precision psychiatry not only normalizes individual differences but customizes treatment to distinctive symptom patterns and as many genetic, neurobiological, and psychosocial variables as science is currently capable of discerning and measuring."
Wellness Tracker
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
"Tracking how you are feeling each day can be helpful to understand your overall mood and state of well-being."
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Wellness Tracker was designed w you in mind.
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
"Put simply, what you eat directly affects the structure and function of your brain and, ultimately, your mood."
Medication
Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food
Drug Interaction Checker
"Learning about your medication options can help you have a more meaningful conversation with your doctor. You also can be more fully involved in taking care of your health."
Drug Interaction Checker
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
Drug Interaction Checker
"When a medication works right, it boosts your health or helps you feel better. But a drug can bring on problems if it doesn't mix well with something else you put into your body, like another medication, a certain food, or alcohol."
Check for interactions between medications. Find out which meds may be unsafe to combine.
Medisafe App
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
"Spend less time thinking about medications—and more time living your life."
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
My Medication - Side Effect Tracker
"Keeping track of any potential medication-related side effects you are experiencing will help inform you and your health care team if your medication
therapy needs adjusting."
Thrive in Mental Wellness
- Accommodations for Employees with Mental Health Conditions - "A mental health condition can impact various aspects of an individual's life, including the ability to achieve maximum productivity in the workplace."
- AmDTx - "AmDTx is a first-in-class digital theragnostic platform. Delivering customised, targeted curricula, AmDTx solves real world mental health issues through validated neurobehavioral interventions."
- Get help for yourself or others - "For people seeking help with mental health, crisis support, finding a warmline, navigating healthcare systems to work with providers, and finding support in your local community."
- Healthy Minds With Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein - "Healthy Minds With Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein aims to remove the stigma of mental illness and demonstrate that with help, there is hope."
- Love, Your Mind - "The “Love, Your Mind” campaign, from the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and the Ad Council, offers inspiration, community and educational resources to encourage people across the U.S. to be more open and proactive when it comes to their mental health."
- Medisafe App - Download the app and never miss another med
- Mental Health Coalition - "The Mental Health Coalition’s Resource Library is made available by our alliance of the leading mental health organizations. We encourage you to browse this database to learn about mental health, help a loved one, learn coping skills and seek support."
- Mental Health Learning Hub - "Explore resources for understanding your mental health, helping loved ones, or accessing information for personal, academic, or professional purposes—all conveniently gathered in one place."
- Mental Health and Travel - "Travel can be a relaxing escape, but it can also be stressful and affect your mental health."
- Nine Ways to Fight Mental Health Stigma - "Most people who live with mental illness have, at some point, been blamed for their condition."
- Psychiatry Online
- Stamp Out Stigma - Observance Calendar - "This calendar serves as a guide to the various observance days and months throughout the year, each focusing on different aspects of mental health and substance use disorders."
- This is My Brave - "Empowering Local Voices to end mental illness stigma via storytelling."
