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Is it flat mend time?
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I'm panicked. Where's the sunscreen? Are there enough pairs of underwear? What about Benadryl? Do I need to bring bandaids? This must mean I'm stressed about packing for spring break! Which I am, because we have to leave in less than 1 hour but I'm typing this email instead of checking to see that I remembered all of the things I already know I remembered. 🙄 Ahhh.... Traveling with kids.....
I can't bring you with me on this spring break adventure but what's the opposite? If we had spring break in fall what would it be called? Flat mend? (I know I might be losing you here because I'm getting way off course and didn't sleep enough!!) In any case, JOIN ME IN HAWAII!!​ I'll be one of the speakers at a conference on the big island in October that's going to be amazing (and you'll get 16 CEUs)!! You'll get cutting-edge, evidence-based treatment training that includes holistic and non-traditional approaches, ensuring that you're expanding your therapy practice and clinical skills both in and outside of the therapy room. I mean, yes! Please join me and the other exceptional presenters!​ Which has nothing at all to do with today's video on PDTs!​ PDTs (prescription digital therapeutics) aren’t wellness apps. They’re FDA-approved, prescription-based treatments for conditions like insomnia, ADHD, and even opioid use disorder. Pretty cool. 3 Quick Takeaways if You Skip the Video:✔ PDTs can be as effective as face-to-face therapy for some conditions (ie Somryst works just as well as in-person CBT-I for insomnia) Mind blown? Mine is but I'm also a smidge skeptical. Catch all my opinions in the video! And if you like the idea of swapping spring break chaos for The Flat Mend (wow, that is just so terrible) mark your calendar for Hawaii in October. Cheers to healthy brains, Dr. B Jessica Beachkofsky, MD Your friendly, online psychiatrist! P.S. Here's the PDT video​ P.P.S. Come to Hawaii and learn with me!!! P.P.P.S. Send me your best "opposite of spring break" terms! |
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It's well into summer here in sunny (and thunderstormy) Florida! And that means time for me to take a pause for a couple of months. Not just to chill (wouldn't that be nice!) but to study for my Menopause Certification! (See? It's telling me to take a pause right in the name!) Hardcore studying for something feels weird. I read journals and take courses all the time but I usually do that for "fun" or just to add to my bank of information about mental health. This is new. this is what I feel...
Jarod was 56 years old and super anxious. He'd been a nervous kid, a stressed out teen, and was nearly incapacitated by his anxiety as he moved through adulthood. He'd worked with multiple different psychiatrists, and I was consulted because he just wasn't getting any better. How much longer can I go on like this? he wondered. Before we'd met, Jarod paid $400 out of pocket for pharmacogenetic testing. THIS will have the answers! Except... It didn't. Jarod was devastated when his results came...
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