What is mental health?
It seems like an obvious answer, but since the topic is broad and often clouded by stigma, exactly what is mental health can be confusing. According to Merriam-Webster, mental illness is defined as “any of a broad range of medical conditions (such as major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or panic disorder) that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning.” Mental health, therefore, covers “the general condition of one’s mental and emotional state.”
It really is a broad definition. So, let’s break it down into some of the conditions that we treat at Doctor Reid,LLC.
What Is Addiction?
Substance abuse, or addiction to drugs or alcohol, is a recognized medical brain disorder. This illness refers to the abuse of illegal or legal substances such as alcohol, opiates, cocaine, marijuana, and so on. Substance abuse causes serious problems at work, school, in relationships, and with the law.
What Is Anxiety?
If you tend to worry a lot, even when there’s no reason, you may have anxiety. It may be something you are so used to that you may think it’s just “how you are.” Common worries include health, money, family, or work. While everyone worries about these things once in a while, if you always expect the worst, it can get in the way of living a normal life.
What Are Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia?
Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to think clearly. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality and can experience hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking, and these symptoms can be very disabling.
What Is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Mental health experts agree that the name “borderline personality disorder” can be misleading; however, a more accurate term does not yet exist. The good news is that when BPD is accurately diagnosed, treatment can be successful and individuals can go on to lead meaningful and productive lives.
What Is Depression?
Anyone can feel sad or depressed at times. However, depression is more intense and harder to manage than normal feelings of sadness. Left untreated, depression can be a debilitating illness for individuals and their families. Often, symptoms are not recognized for their severity and can worsen, and severe depression may lead to suicidal thoughts and actions.
What Are Eating Disorders?
Eating disorders happen as a result of severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as an unhealthy reduction of food intake or extreme overeating. These patterns can be caused by feelings of distress or concern about body shape or weight, and they harm normal body composition and function. A person with an eating disorder may have started out just eating smaller or larger amounts of food than usual, but at some point, the urge to eat less or more spirals out of control.
What Is OCD?
OCD is a common anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas, sensations (obsessions), or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something (compulsions). With treatment, many find relief from these symptoms.
What Is Trauma?
Trauma knows no boundaries. It affects people of every background, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. Research has shown that traumatic experiences are associated with both behavioral and physical health conditions, especially trauma that occurs during childhood. With proper care, individuals can recover from psychological trauma and learn to heal and manage their symptoms.
Reduce suffering & optimize wellness in those struggling with mental health conditions.
How we do it:
• Providing compassionate & personalized mental health care in partnership with those whom we serve
• Conducting a state-of-the-art diagnostic investigation to find answers & individualize treatment
• Training the next generation of behavioral health specialists
• Providing public education to reduce stigma, raise awareness & facilitate enlightened progress
Our clinicians have the skills and experience needed to worry about the right medications so you don't have to. To coincide with medication-based treatment, they also provide personally-tailored talk therapy.
We offer comprehensive outpatient mental health services for all ages.
Services include psychiatric evaluation & diagnosis, medication management, psychotherapy (individual, couples, family), ketamine therapy, TMS for depression & OCD, and clinical trials.
ARE YOU IN CRISIS?
For more urgent situations and after hours, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department.
UNI CrisisLine: 801-587-3000 offers crisis response 24/7, including crisis support over the phone, a mobile outreach option (MCOT) that will respond to persons in their home, and the Receiving Center where individuals from Salt Lake County can access a safe and supportive environment to help individuals work through their crisis situation. Individuals may spend up to 23 hours at the Receiving Center, at no cost.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline1-800-273-TALK (8255)
