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Depression
Depression
Depression
If you are ready to have depression be a thing of your past and not of your future please click below to learn how we can help.
Anxiety
Depression
Depression
We have helped people just like you decrease symptoms of anxiety, panic, phobia, social anxiety, and other anxiety disorders. Click below to learn how we can help.
Adult ADHD
Depression
Adult ADHD
Ready to increase focus, and concentration, and get organized? Click below to learn how we can help.
PTSD
Depression
Adult ADHD
Are you tired of living life on edge, in fear, losing sleep, or just feeling stuck over past trauma? Please click below to learn how we can help.
OCD
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Sleep Disturbance / Insomnia
Ready to reclaim the minutes and hours of your life that obsessive thoughts or compulsive behaviors and patterns are costing you? Please click below to get the help that you need to move past OCD.
Sleep Disturbance / Insomnia
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Sleep Disturbance / Insomnia
Sleep is the King (and/or Queen) of basic self-care. Sleep is a basic necessity. When your sleep is off, most things in life are harder. Approximately half of people with chronic insomnia have a psychiatric disorder, and the majority of those with a psychiatric disorder have insomnia. If you struggle to get the precious sleep that you need, please click below to learn how we can help.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
About half of people who experience a mental health condition will also experience alcohol or drug abuse dependence and vice versa. Using brief psychotherapy, we can teach healthy coping mechanisms or tools in combination with medication management if needed. To get the help that you need, please click below to get started.
Binge Eating
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
Binge-eating can wreak havoc on not only your physical health but your emotional health too. We can help you learn new ways to cope with issues that may trigger your binge eating thereby giving you the tools to retain control over it. If you are motivated to change your binge eating, please click below to get started.
Depression
What is depression?
Depression is a disorder that makes you sad, but it is different from normal sadness. Depression can make it hard for you to work, study, or do everyday tasks. Sometimes depression can follow a difficult event, a life change, trauma, chronic stress, anxiety, insomnia, from using too much alcohol or other substances, medical illness, or even for no apparent reason at all. Often there are several contributing factors to depression.
How do I know if I am depressed?
People with depression feel down most of the time for at least 2 weeks. They also have at least 1 of these 2 symptoms:
- They no longer enjoy or care about doing the things that they used to like to do.
- They feel sad, down, hopeless, guilty, or cranky most of the day, almost every day.
People with depression can also have other symptoms. Examples include:
- Changes in your appetite or weight. You might eat too little or too much, or gain or lose weight without trying.
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Feeling tired or like you have no energy
- Feeling guilty, helpless, or like you are worth nothing
- Trouble with concentration or memory
- Acting restless or having trouble staying still, moving, or speaking more slowly than normal
- Repeated thoughts of death or killing yourself
Depression treatment
Our provider will work with you one-on-one to understand your unique situation and create a plan to help you resolve these symptoms. Together you will set targets that will improve your resiliency to these symptoms both now and in the future. We can help you make the changes you have been wanting to make. Click below to get started.
Generalized Anxiety
What is Generalized Anxiety?
Everyone feels anxious or nervous once in a while. That is normal. But being extremely anxious or worried on most days for 6 months or longer is not normal. This is called "generalized anxiety disorder." The disorder can make it hard to do everyday tasks.
Generalized anxiety disorder is just 1 anxiety disorder. There are others, such as panic disorder and phobias.
What are the symptoms of extreme or severe anxiety?
People with extreme or severe anxiety feel very worried or "on edge" much of the time. They can have trouble sleeping or forget things. Plus, they can have physical symptoms. For instance, people with severe anxiety often feel very tired and have tense muscles. Some get stomach aches or feel chest "tightness."
Is there anything I can do on my own to feel better?
Move your body – Exercise can help many people feel less anxious. Even gentle forms of exercise, like walking, are good for your health.
- Limit or avoid caffeine – Cut down on or stop drinking coffee and other sources of caffeine. Caffeine can make anxiety worse.
- Find healthy ways to manage stress – Some people find that it helps to try something called "mindfulness-based stress reduction." This involves going to a group program to practice relaxation and meditation. Other people find that activities like yoga, tai chi, or meditation help them manage their anxiety.
- Eat a healthy diet – Eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains can help with your overall health. Try to limit or avoid alcohol.
Anxiety treatment
Our Approach -
- Outstanding Clinical Support - Our providers will work with you to identify the situations, behaviors, and other factors that contribute to your anxiety. We will work with you to optimize your daily routines to support your wellness, decrease stress, and reduce anxiety. We will help you find techniques that are specific to you and work.
- Medication Options – Medicines used to treat depression can relieve anxiety, too, even in people who are not depressed. You and your provider can discuss medicine options that make sense for your situation and prescribe them to you.
There is no reason to feel embarrassed about getting treatment for anxiety. Anxiety is a common problem. It affects all kinds of people.
Remember that it might take a little while to find the right treatment. People respond in different ways to therapy and medicines, so you might need to try a few approaches before you find the one that helps you most.
If you are ready to start decrasing your anxiety and working on a solution to these symptoms please click below to contact us.
Adult ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
What is ADHD?
People with adult ADHD struggle with inattention, impulsivity, and restlessness. ADHD can make it hard to do everyday tasks. It is common for adults with ADHD to struggle to keep track of time, organize, plan, and remember. ADHD can make it harder to regulate your own emotions and deal with life's stresses.
Adults with untreated ADHD are more likely to experience mood disorders (depression), anxiety, substance use, and trouble controlling their emotions.
ADHD Treatment
Both Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for ADHD and medications are effective in treating ADHD in most cases. Our provider will work with you to create a plan specific to your needs and your motivations. Together we can help you learn to manage time, plan, remember things, and be more organized.
If you are ready to start addressing your ADHD symptoms and develop a plan that works for you please click below to contact us.
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
What is PTSD?
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or "PTSD," is a condition that can happen after people see or live through a trauma. A trauma is an intense event that involves serious injury or death, or the chance of serious injury or death. This can include medical events, such as a heart attack, surgery, or being in the intensive care unit ("ICU").
PTSD can cause nightmares, upsetting memories, anxiety, and other symptoms.
Not everyone who sees or lives through a trauma will get PTSD. We do not yet know why some people get PTSD and others don't.
What are the symptoms of PTSD
- Reliving the trauma through thoughts and feelings – People can have upsetting memories, nightmares, or flashbacks. Flashbacks are when people "see" or feel the trauma repeatedly.
- Feeling "numb" and avoiding certain people or places – People avoid thinking about the trauma. They might also avoid people and places that remind them of it. Some people also feel "numb." They might not enjoy activities they used to enjoy, or feel like they are not part of the world around them.
- Having intense feelings – These can include anger, fear, or worry. People might frighten or startle easily. Many people have trouble sleeping.
These symptoms can start right after the trauma. If they last longer than 3 days, they could be symptoms of a related condition called "acute stress disorder" (ASD). If they last longer than a month, they could be symptoms of PTSD. But sometimes, symptoms of PTSD start years later. They often affect a person's job, relationships, or daily life.
Symptoms of PTSD can come and go. They might return when people are under stress or see or hear something that reminds them of the trauma.
How can Fundamental Health help me with PTSD?
While we do not currently offer traditional hour-long trauma-focused therapy sessions, we can help you decrease the symptoms of PTSD in several ways.
- Medication Options - Our provider can prescribe you medications that decrease nightmares and improve sleep. Imagine how simply not being afraid to go to sleep and getting a good night's rest may help you function better during the daytime. Some medications can help with the anxiety, flashbacks, and depression that often come with PTSD.
- Written exposure therapy – Written exposure therapy is a brief therapy in which you will write about your traumatic event in response to specific questions. We then discuss the writing with you and pay attention to the thoughts and emotions that it evokes. Written exposure therapy uses imaginal exposure. Written exposure therapy is an alternative treatment to the standard prolonged trauma exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy that requires less time to complete and does not require between-session assignments!
If you are ready to address trauma and let us help you move forward please click below to get started!
OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)
What is OCD?
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have recurrent intrusive distressing thoughts, images, or urges (obsessions), and/or behavioral acts (compulsions) that the individual feels driven to perform. Obsessions cause distress – typically anxiety, but sometimes disgust or a sense of wrongness or incompleteness. Compulsions are typically performed in response to obsessions, often according to rules that must be applied rigidly. Most individuals with OCD have both obsessions and compulsions. OCD can make it hard for you to work, study, or do everyday tasks.
Peoplel with OCD are more likely to struggle with depression and anxiety than people who do not have OCD.
OCD Treatment
Treatment with antidepressants can help alleviate OCD symptoms. These medications can also decrease depression and anxiety. Therapy is helpful in OCD. CBT therapy is a set of techniques that are used to help people with OCD modify unhelpful patterns of thinking and acting to alleviate emotional symptoms. Components of CBT for OCD include:
- Education
- Cognitive therapy techniques
- Exposure therapy
- Response prevention
Our provider will work with you one-on-one to develop a specific treatment plan that addresses your unique needs. Click below to contact us.
Insomnia
Insomnia?
People with insomnia often:
- Have trouble falling or staying asleep
- Feel tired during the day
- Forget things or have trouble thinking clearly
- Get cranky, anxious, irritable, or depressed
- Have less energy or interest in doing things
- Make mistakes or get into accidents more often than normal
- Worry about their lack of sleep
These symptoms can be so bad that they affect a person's relationships or work life. They can happen even in people who seem to be sleeping enough hours.
How is Insomnia Treated?
It depends. If your insomnia is related to stress, pain, or a medical problem, treating that problem can help you sleep better. If you have chronic insomnia, meaning insomnia that lasts longer than 3 months, there are specific treatments that can help. They include:
Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, or "CBT-I" – This involves working with us to better understand your insomnia, learning ways to build better sleep habits, and changing negative thinking patterns that can make insomnia worse. We can can also teach you relaxation exercises that can help.
Part of CBT-I involves learning about "sleep hygiene." These things can also be helpful for people who don't have chronic insomnia but have trouble sleeping sometimes. Having good sleep hygiene means that you:
- Sleep only long enough to feel rested, and then get out of bed.
- Go to bed and get up at the same time every day.
- Do not try to force yourself to sleep. If you can't sleep, get out of bed and try again later.
- Have coffee, tea, and other foods with caffeine only in the morning.
- Avoid alcohol in the late afternoon, evening, and bedtime.
- Avoid smoking, especially in the evening.
- Keep your bedroom dark, cool, quiet, and free of reminders of work or other things that cause you stress.
- Solve problems before you go to bed.
- Get plenty of physical activity, but avoid heavy exercise right before bed.
- Avoid looking at phones, computer screens, or reading devices ("e-books") that give off light before bed. This can make it harder to fall asleep
Medication Options– There are also medicines that can help with sleep. Some medicines come with risks. For example, they can make you groggy or off-balance when you wake up.
If your insomnia is related to problems like depression or anxiety, it can help for us treat those problems directly.
If you want help figuring out your insomnia and building good routines that support satisfying sleep each night please click below to contact us.
Alcohol and Drug Abuse / Dependence
How do I know if I have a problem with alcohol or substance dependence?
Whether it is alcohol or another substance (Cannabis, caffeine, tobacco, cocaine, Kratom, and others), there are a few basic warning signs that can tell people there is is a problem. consider the following:
- Have you lost control of your drinking or substance use? For example, do you sometimes find that you use more than you meant to?
- Is the drinking or substance use getting in the way of things you want in life or how you want to live your life?
- Do you need to use larger and larger amounts to get the effect you want? Or do you get sick or feel physically uncomfortable if you cut down?
- Have you lost your job, gotten in trouble with the law, or had problems with your friends or family because of alcohol or substance use?
If you said yes to any of these questions, or if you just think that you have a problem we have several options that can help.
How Fundamental Health and Psychiatry LLC can help.
We have helped people just like you cut down on alcohol and substance use. Our provider will help you build the specific plan you need to decrease alcohol or substance use. We offer evidence-based counseling and medication options that help can help cravings and withdrawal. If you are motivated to decrease your reliance on alcohol or other substances use we are motivated to help you get there! Click below to contact us.
Binge Eating
What is binge eating?
An eating binge is defined as eating an amount of food in a 1-2 hour period that is clearly larger than what most people would eat in a similar amount of time under similar circumstances. During binge episodes, people who binge eat feel they lack control over their eating (feel they cannot stop eating or control the amount or what they are eating).
Binge eating episodes are marked by at least three of the following:
- Eating more rapidly than normal
- Eating until feeling uncomfortably full
- Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry
- Eating alone because of embarrassment by the amount of food consumed
- Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or guilty after overeating
- Experiencing distress regarding binge eating
- Episodes occur, on average, at least once a week for three months.
- No regular use of compensatory behaviors (eg, purging, fasting, or excessive exercise) as are seen in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
People who experience binge eating are more likely to have other mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, PTSD, difficulty controlling impulses/anger, and relationship challenges.
How Fundamental Health and Psychiatry LLC can help.
We have helped people just like you to decrease binge eating. Our team will work with you to identify the unique emotions, thoughts, triggers, and other factors that are leading to your binge eating. When indicated, we offer several medication options that can treat binge eating directly or address other mental health issues that are contributing to binge eating. If you are motivated to change your binge eating, please contact us to get started