Medication Management
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Medication Management: Optimize What Works Best for You
Medication management is an invaluable approach for treating mood disorders like depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. Our expert psychiatrists tailor prescriptions and dosages to fit your unique lifestyle and needs, ensuring the most effective treatment. If one medication doesn’t work or causes side effects, we adjust your plan to suit your body chemistry better, always aiming to find you the relief you deserve.
Evidence-Based and Patient-Centered Care
At Mindful Health Solutions, we prioritize evidence-based practices to ensure ethical and effective mental health care. Our expert psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse practitioners only recommend scientifically proven medication management plans tailored to cases similar to yours.
We understand the importance of patient-centered care and offer a dynamic range of treatments, including traditional medication management, psychotherapy, and cutting-edge alternatives. To make treatment accessible and comfortable, we offer telepsychiatry for virtual appointments and accept most major insurances.
Finding Relief with Medication Management
Medication management is an avenue for anyone struggling with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and PTSD. Our providers create holistic treatment plans that may include medications like antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, or mood stabilizers, often paired with psychotherapy, TMS therapy, or esketamine nasal spray. We prioritize your education on the benefits and risks of all care options without pushing unnecessary medications.
Up to 60% of patients find relief from their depression symptoms with medication
Up to 80% of patients with ADHD find relief with the right medication
Up to 85% of bipolar disorder patients find relief with the right medication
Available Treatments
At Mindful Health Solutions, we offer the most advanced and effective evidence-based treatments for depression all under one roof. Together, we will find a treatment that helps you finally find relief.
TMS, or transcranial magnetic stimulation, is a safe, non-invasive procedure that uses magnetic pulses to stimulate the brain. It’s the first and only drug-free therapy to be FDA-approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder.
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Ketamine Infusion Therapy is an intravenous treatment designed for patients struggling with a number of psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder, treatment-resistant depression, bipolar depression, PTSD and trauma disorders, post-partum depression, anxiety, and OCD.
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SPRAVATO (Esketamine) is a safe, non-invasive treatment that is thought to create new connections in the brain. It’s the first and only FDA-approved treatment for depression that targets the glutamate system.
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Proper medication management care ensures that you receive the most effective and appropriate medications for depression and other mental health conditions. Our psychiatrists work closely with all patients to monitor and adjust medications as needed.
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All treatment plans at Mindful Health Solutions are customized to each patient. Our talented team of clinicians and support staff is dedicated to working with patients collaboratively to find a treatment plan that works for them. Our goal is to help patients find relief in a way that feels good.
Accessible Care with Telepsychiatry
Mindful Health Solutions wants to make treatment comfortable and accessible. We offer telepsychiatry for patients who can’t come to the office or prefer a virtual appointment. This allows patients to get care from wherever they are in their state.
Insurance
We are in-network with Kaiser, Medicare, and all major commercial insurance plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is medication management important?
Medication management is a form of psychiatric treatments that may enhance your emotional, psychological, and social health. It can help address symptoms you experience from any mental health condition you may have.
Antidepressants work by impacting neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine, to alleviate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. Like taking an antibacterial medicine for a cold, medications such as antidepressants are taken to make mental illness symptoms more manageable.
Who can prescribe medications?
A psychiatrist has a title that includes MD or DO. They have completed medical school and a four-year residency in psychiatry. They are a licensed physician who became a board-certified psychiatrist after graduating from medical school, passing their title requirements, completing a psychiatry residency, and passing a board exam in psychiatry. Some types of psychiatrists, such as adolescent psychiatrists, are required to complete additional items in order to become certified.
Because psychiatrists are medical doctors, they can prescribe medications and alternative treatments for mental health disorders, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Psychiatrists can provide limited therapy, but most don’t. If they do, it is very little therapy and mostly medication management.
Are there any side effects?
There are several different antidepressants and all of these variations may impact your body chemistry differently. You may not experience any side effects with one antidepressant, but you may experience some common side effects with another. It all depends. However, there is a wide range of common side effects that you may experience, including:
- Irritability, hostility, aggression, or agitation
- Anxiety
- Panic
- Nausea, diarrhea, or constipation
- Restlessness
- Dizziness
- Diminished sex drive
- Sweating
- Fatigue or sleepiness
- Insomnia
- Headaches
- Mood swings
- Dry mouth
If you experience any of these side effects from a medication prescribed by your provider, it is important to let them know. They will quickly switch you to another medication or try an alternative to medication, such as TMS therapy or esketamine nasal spray. We want you to find relief, and relief does not include uncomfortable side effects.
How does medication mangement work?
Antidepressants work by impacting neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine, to alleviate the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders. Like taking an antibacterial medicine for a cold, medications such as antidepressants are taken to make mental illness symptoms more manageable.
Your provider can choose from a variety of antidepressants that act on different neurotransmitters to regulate mood or increase electrical flow among brain cells. Together, we will walk through your medication options and collaborate on making a medication management plan.
Symptoms of Depression
- Unexplainable and persistent aches or digestive problems
- Sleeping too much or too little
- Fatigue
- Restlessness
- Persistent sadness or anxiety
- Feeling hopeless, worthless, guilty, etc.
- Being pessimistic or negative
- Quick to irritability or frustration
- Disinterest in hobbies or activities
- Difficulty concentrating
- Suicide attempts or thoughts
Symptoms of Mania
- Extreme agitation
- Easily distracted
- Unusual talkativeness
- Decreased need for sleep
- Racing thoughts
- Exaggerated self-confidence and well-being
- Being abnormally jumpy or upbeat
- Increased activity and energy
- Poor decision making/impulsivity