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At the age of just 33, Nick Winkler’s life took an unex­pect­ed turn. In late 2023, he received a can­cer diag­no­sis, throw­ing him into a bat­tle he nev­er imag­ined fac­ing at such a young age.

This Mother’s Day, we’re spot­light­ing Dr. Nihari­ka Yed­la. Dr. Yedla’s jour­ney in med­i­cine was deeply influ­enced by her moth­er, an OB/GYN physi­cian. Wit­ness­ing her mother’s ded­i­ca­tion first­hand instilled a pas­sion for heal­ing in Dr. Yed­la, and her mother’s wis­dom con­tin­ues to guide her every day.

Focus­ing on your men­tal health is impor­tant for all ages. Your needs may vary depend­ing on the stage of life you’re in. As we come to the end of Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month, our QMG Behav­ioral Health team shares some tips for old­er adults.

Among the media cov­er­age about the Uvalde tragedy are arti­cles about how the Uvalde com­mu­ni­ty will start to recov­er. Men­tal health experts across the nation are being called on for their exper­tise to help peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly chil­dren, process and under­stand how to cope with such a safe­ty-shat­ter­ing experience.

Through­out Men­tal Health Aware­ness Month, our Behav­ioral Health team is shar­ing tips to help sup­port your men­tal health. Men­tal health is the result of the steps you take and the choic­es you make every day. Here are some tips to help you take the steps and make the choic­es that are best for your emo­tion­al wellbeing.

If you’ve tried to sched­ule an appoint­ment with a ther­a­pist late­ly, you may have been dis­ap­point­ed to learn that instead of set­ting up an appoint­ment, you were added to a wait­list. Or maybe you were added to a wait­list sev­er­al weeks ago and still haven’t heard back about sched­ul­ing an appoint­ment. What’s the deal!?!

Ever since March 2020 (what huge, life-chang­ing thing hap­pened that month?!), health­care work­ers have made the switch to offer­ing more tele­health options for patients. There are all kinds of video call ser­vices (Zoom, Skype, Face­time, etc.) and tra­di­tion­al phone call options to choose from.

In a recent doc­u­men­tary series titled, The Me You Can’t See, Oprah Win­frey shared the sto­ries of peo­ple who strug­gle with their men­tal health. One of the sto­ries she shares is that of Prince Har­ry who speaks about a form of ther­a­py called EMDR (Eye Move­ment Desen­si­ti­za­tion and Reprocessing).

Going to a ther­a­pist for med­ica­tion is like going to a urol­o­gist with a bro­ken arm – you’ll prob­a­bly leave with a refer­ral to anoth­er provider but no med­ica­tion and this won’t be the fastest route for address­ing your prob­lem. Read on for a break­down of dif­fer­ent types of men­tal health providers and what ser­vices they do and do not provide.

If you want bet­ter men­tal health, there’s no need to com­plete­ly over­haul your life. Well­ness results from tak­ing small steps and main­tain­ing them over time. Since the change has to start some­where, I’d like to chal­lenge you to try sev­en new things, one each day next week, toward improv­ing your men­tal health.