Wellness First Psychiatric Associates

I found a gen1 iPhone from 2007 hidden away in a drawer. Looking at old texts and images brought this to mind:

Looking into the past is a kind of travel from the present—that past seeming like a foreign place from which we can create a lens to know ourselves better as we are now.

Put aside for a moment diagnositic labels, is not the quality and depth of one’s friendships an honest measure of mental health?

In the forest, as in the consultation room, it helps to wander before looking closely.

Free-floating attention prospects, focusing mines.

Something meaningful emerges when the two join hands.

Our garden is starting to come back to life.
Just behind it is the place where people come for help.

A quiet reminder that renewal doesn’t have to follow the seasons.

There is always something in the air, beyond words, when therapist and patient sit together.

We are finding it rewarding curating our Mental Health and Media page with links to topics that are finding there way into the press. We'll be updating updating every week or so. Hope the links are interesting and rewarding.

Mental Health and the Media | Clinical Reflections from a Psychiatrist Clinical reflections on mental health topics as they appear in the media, written from a psychiatrist’s perspective.

Narcissism is a hot topic and the media is responding. Unfortunately, 'Hot' sometimes correlates with shallow. Thankfully The New York Times recently dug a bit deeper than average.
https://www.wfpanc.com/mentalhealth-media

We’ve decided to begin curating topics in mental health that are appearing in the media. Our page is new and will be populated over time.

The first link on the page addresses a technical development in TMS — a non-invasive therapy for depression and a number of other conditions. Advances in TMS are being made using sophisticated imaging techniques to personalize how treatment is delivered, increasing the likelihood of successful outcomes.

Visit our new Mental Health and the Media page to learn more.

Mental Health and the Media | Clinical Reflections from a Psychiatrist Clinical reflections on mental health topics as they appear in the media, written from a psychiatrist’s perspective.

We have recently updated a curated list of psychological self-assessment tools as well as a few screening tests for common conditions like depression and anxiety. Hope visitors find them interesting and useful:
https://www.wfpanc.com/self-assessment

Think of alcohol as like Tylenol. It has it place in life but is a direct toxin; something that stresses the body regardless of the dose.

No Safe Level of Alcohol for Dementia Risk Study challenges evidence about drinking and dementia