Welcome to Mental Health Matters Podcast, we're Hillary Coughlin and Christina Ennabe, both mental health clinicians and coaches coming together to talk about all things mental health and wellness. Our mission is to destigmatize the topic of mental health by talking about real-life relatable experiences and hardships that people go through every day but may struggle to talk about. This is a place where we dig deep, get real, and empower you to get through life’s challenges.
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Welcome to Mental Health Matters Podcast, we're Hillary Coughlin and Christina Ennabe, both mental health clinicians and coaches coming together to talk about all things mental health and wellness. Our mission is to destigmatize the topic of mental health by talking about real-life relatable experiences and hardships that people go through every day but may struggle to talk about. This is a place where we dig deep, get real, and empower you to get through life’s challenges.
De-Stigmatizing Psych Meds with Colin White, PMHNP
Mental Health Matters
24 minutes 32 seconds
3 years ago
De-Stigmatizing Psych Meds with Colin White, PMHNP
We are talking about how medications can help our mental health and challenge the stigma around this.
Colin White is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and has been providing treatment to individuals in need of psychiatric services for close to a decade. He has served individuals across the lifespan with a wide range of psychiatric conditions. Colin has also provided medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder. He currently works as the main attending provider on an adolescent unit, where he oversees the treatment of 12 adolescents on a daily basis. In addition to his duties to treat patients, he has been a teacher to multiple medical students and nurse practitioner students.
What we get into:
How medications can help us with our mental health
How therapy and medication management complement each other in treatment
Talking about our own mental health struggles and experiences to break the stigma of taking medications
How to trust your prescriber and the medication process and still be an advocate for yourself if something does not feel right for you
Please let us know if you have any questions for Colin and we can pass them along!
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Mental Health Matters
Welcome to Mental Health Matters Podcast, we're Hillary Coughlin and Christina Ennabe, both mental health clinicians and coaches coming together to talk about all things mental health and wellness. Our mission is to destigmatize the topic of mental health by talking about real-life relatable experiences and hardships that people go through every day but may struggle to talk about. This is a place where we dig deep, get real, and empower you to get through life’s challenges.
