by Mindful Health Solutions | Apr 30, 2018 | Articles and Blogs
Mental health, whether it’s about a need to learn how to cope with stress or severe depression, is not often given the attention it deserves. Most of the time, it is acceptable to take a vacation or a “mental health day,” but seeking professional...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Apr 27, 2018 | Articles and Blogs
Our brains have plasticity—the ability to change physically, functionally, and chemically throughout life. It’s how we can compose music and affect muscle memory in sports. It’s how we can learn new languages, problem solve and train our brains to think in...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Mar 22, 2018 | Articles and Blogs
Treating clinical depression can take dedication and a deep understanding of how the mental illness affects the body and the mind. Finding the right treatment—or combination of treatments—that works for you takes close collaboration with your doctor or mental health...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles and Blogs
Clinical depression, also known as major depressive disorder (MDD), manifests itself differently in everyone. Some of us are genetically prone to experiencing the disorder during our lifetime. Others experience clinical depression as a result of traumatic events or...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Feb 2, 2018 | Articles and Blogs
Symptoms of clinical depression vary greatly in the population that this mental illness affects, which is about 6.7% of the US adult population (or 16.1 million Americans over the age of 18 each year) according to The Anxiety and Depression Association...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Oct 5, 2017 | Articles and Blogs
Today is Depression Screening Day. On such an auspicious occasion, we wanted to share a few words of our appreciation to the PHQ-9, an ode of sorts. For those of you who haven’t heard of this acryonym (it has less name recognition then FBI or LOL), it’s a tool those...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Feb 14, 2017 | Articles and Blogs
by Stephanie Dodaro On the list of most dreaded holidays, Valentine’s Day is probably near the top. It combines all the pressure of New Year’s Eve and the emotional expectations and gift-giving stress of Christmas. We’re encouraged to make expensive,...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Nov 18, 2016 | Articles and Blogs
by Stephanie Dodaro It seems that as soon as we put away our Halloween costumes, we’re inundated by a steady stream of holiday ads and social media posts featuring joyous people shopping for gifts or celebrating with loved ones. For many, these idyllic images are a...
by Mindful Health Solutions | Aug 19, 2016 | Articles and Blogs
Iodine is teaming up with Mindful Health Solutions, a network of psychiatric service providers in Northern California, to make Start a part of depression treatment at TMS clinics. San Francisco-based startup Iodine is touting its depression-focused mobile app, Start,...