Will Getting Mental Health Care Hurt Your License? What California Healthcare Workers Should Know
You know the warning signs. You have probably pointed them out to patients. Sleep that never feels like rest. A short fuse at home. Dread on the drive in. Feeling flat on your days off. But when it is you, a different question tends to show up first. Not “do ...Read More - Will Getting Mental Health Care Hurt Your License? What California Healthcare Workers Should Know
Adult ADHD: Why High Achievers Get Diagnosed So Late
For a lot of people, the ADHD diagnosis does not come first. It comes after years of treatment for something else- usually anxiety, sometimes depression, occasionally both- once those treatments have helped somewhat but never quite resolved the thing that was actually driving the struggle underneath. This pattern is common ...Read More - Adult ADHD: Why High Achievers Get Diagnosed So Late
When a Short Temper Is Actually Anxiety or Depression
You snap at your partner over something that would not have bothered you a year ago. You feel your jaw tighten in traffic in a way that feels disproportionate to sitting in traffic. A coworker asks a perfectly reasonable question, and your first internal response is irritation; you have to ...Read More - When a Short Temper Is Actually Anxiety or Depression
How Do You Know When It’s Time to See a Psychiatric Provider?
Most people who eventually see a psychiatric provider spend a long time before that appointment asking themselves one question: is this actually serious enough? It is a reasonable question to ask. It is also, in a lot of cases, the wrong one. It assumes there is a clear threshold somewhere ...Read More - How Do You Know When It’s Time to See a Psychiatric Provider?
What Chronic Stress and Burnout Actually Do to Your Body
At some point, most people going through burnout start collecting a strange list of physical complaints. Headaches that show up almost daily. A stomach that never quite settles. Catching every cold that goes around the office. A resting heart rate that feels higher than it used to be, even sitting ...Read More - What Chronic Stress and Burnout Actually Do to Your Body