Mental Health Resources and Information

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"Don’t wait for a health care provider to ask about your mental health. Start the conversation."

FiveTips to Help Prepare 

"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."

Make the Most of Your Appointment

"Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders."

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"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. "

Psychiatric Evaluation: A Checkup for the Brain 

"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 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."

What Is Precision Psychiatry?

"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.

"Put simply, what you eat directly affects the structure and function of your brain and, ultimately, your mood."

Your brain on food

"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."

Types of Medications

"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.

"Spend less time thinking about medications—and more time living your life."

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"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."

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