First responders and healthcare professionals have high rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, cognitive difficulties, and a trauma. First responders and healthcare professionals face stigma and discrimination when seeking care.
Aug 17th, 2020
First responders and healthcare professionals have high rates of anxiety, depression, insomnia, cognitive difficulties, and a trauma. First responders and healthcare professionals face stigma and discrimination when seeking care.
Feeling anxious from time to time isn’t unusual. But when anxiety takes over your life, it’s time to get some professional help so you can regain control. Here’s how to tell when you need a little assistance — and what to expect during treatment.
Sleep problems extend far beyond leaving you tired. Chronic lack of sleep can lead to a host of health issues and take a major toll on your overall quality of life. Here’s how sleep problems could be affecting your health.
At Your Service Psychiatry now offers Illinois Cannabis Cards. After a full psychiatric evaluation, if we find compassionate cannabis is a viable option, we work with your local medical marijuana dispensary.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a serious condition that can take a heavy toll on your life. But while PTSD was medically recognized as a disorder 40 years ago, it’s still widely misunderstood. These five common myths will test your PTSD awareness.
Although depression is a mental health condition that affects millions in the US, it can take a major toll on your physical health, too. Understanding the link between depression and your overall health is important in getting the care you need.
It’s easy to postpone getting the medical attention you need, but you don’t have to wait anymore. With telepsychiatry, you can have a private consultation from the comfort of your own home or office — when it’s most convenient for you.
Alzheimer's Dementia is not a normal part of aging. Early diagnosis gives a chance to seek treatment and plan for the future. We support the caregivers, daughters and sons, spouses of those struggling with Alzheimer's Dementia.
The ESA Request The following story is a culmination of the various requests I’ve had over the years, not one specific person, or animal, and the details are changed to protect the identity of the clients....
Welcome Back, College Students! You only have a limited time when you’re back in town. With your Vyvanse, you can keep on task, concentrate, and get through the coursework, but you keep running out of your medications at school...
There are many ways anxiety, stress, trauma may manifest in our bodies. One common manifestation of this is through health anxiety, also called Illness Anxiety Disorder, where people worry about getting an illness...
Dr. Elaine Aron, PhD first described the highly sensitive person (HSP) as a personality trait in her book, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You...
The alarm goes off, and you sigh. Everything feels so heavy. You hit snooze, and again, and are still tired. Wearily you sigh again and get up. It feels like too much today to wash your hair. “I’m so lazy,” but you keep going...
We often think of Agoraphobia only as of the inability to leave one’s house. But it may present in more subtle ways and still be very debilitating. The DSM-5 gives Agoraphobia examples of marked fear or anxiety about: · Using public transportation (c
“I would never want to have a mental health diagnosis on my record”...
Grief and depression may look and feel the same, but there are some important distinctions...