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Women’s Mental Health Care: A Historical Perspective & Progress

Lightwork

The pathologization of female behavior became a means of social control, discouraging women from seeking education, pursuing careers, or asserting their independence. Healthcare providers developed targeted approaches for conditions like premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and anxiety disorders specific to women.

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What is Telemedicine?

My Psychiatry

This includes health education, health information, and health care services that involve telecare and telemedicine. It also involves a psychiatrist support system of primary healthcare workers by offering psychiatric evaluations to the patients online. Online access to a psychiatrist has grown exponentially over the past few years.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Dr. Sarah Johnson offers both psychotherapy and medication management services and has a special interest in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. Mostly sees patients with a Mood Disorder: Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder. Sarah Johnson, M.D., Mercedes Rizo, M.D.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. If you buy the idea your suicidality on an SSRI is evidence of a bipolar disorder, or your loss of libido, darling, is your depression, you and your doctor become more spell-bound. You will see a glassy-eyedness. It’s the hypnosis.

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It's Okay to Need Medication for Mental Health Treatment

Zencare

The role of medications in managing mental health disorders Some mental health illnesses respond best to medication, some respond best to individual psychotherapy, and some respond best to a combination, or "multimodal" treatment approach. They are essential for managing mental health conditions like bipolar disorder.