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What Should You Look for in a Treatment Center for Anxiety Disorders?

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

In this guide, we’ll explore what to look for in the best anxiety treatment centers , from types of therapies offered to accreditations and treatment modalities. Key Features to Look For in an Anxiety Treatment Center 1. Exposure Therapy for anxiety: Especially helpful for phobias, social anxiety, and panic disorder.

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Postpartum Depression with Comorbid Anxiety: Optimizing Treatment

MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

Clinical studies support the effectiveness of SSRIs for treating both depressive and anxiety symptoms in the postpartum period. Both treatment arms demonstrated significant improvement in depressive and anxiety symptoms, with high response rates (87.5% for combination therapy). for paroxetine alone and 78.9% J Clin Psychiatry.

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Why Women Are More Prone to Anxiety Disorders (and How to Cope)

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Introduction Research consistently shows that women experience anxiety disorders at nearly twice the rate of men. Women face unique challenges that can trigger or intensify anxiety symptoms, from hormonal fluctuations to societal pressures and relationship dynamics.

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Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder a Mental Illness?

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

PTSD is officially recognized as a mental health disorder in both the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases). Unlike generalized anxiety or depression, PTSD develops specifically as a result of psychological trauma.

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Supportive Psychotherapy - The Clinical Language of Psychiatry

Real Psychiatry

But some people have a difficult time with that transition and develop mood or anxiety disorders. An important concept in supportive psychotherapy is that many of the current manualized or structured therapy approaches were taught as supportive psychotherapy before they became what appear to be separate schools of thought.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. When antidepressants fail bring on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

Mad in America

Cognitive behavior therapy is described as effective, but only for mild depression—if you really need help, you are advised to choose drug treatment. So, NIH has joined NIMH in an unwarranted extolling of the value of antidepressant drugs and has compounded the fraud by adding unwarranted limitations on the value of therapy.