"The shortage of psychiatrists is an escalating crisis … of more severity than shortages faced in virtually any other specialty."
What’s the Answer to the Shortage of Mental Health Care Providers?
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- Making the holidays special for over 50 years.
The Holiday Gift Lift program provides new essential items to adults who might not otherwise receive a gift over the holiday season.
Eligible recipients include:
Our community helps us serve approximately 400 people per year through the Holiday Gift Lift program. Please help us continue to brighten the holiday season for those in need this year.
Please help by donating a new unwrapped gift or by making a cash donation. All contributions are tax-deductible. For more information, please contact the MHA office.
Gift Suggestions
Large (xl - xxl) adult sizes please.
Only new unwrapped gifts are accepted.
Cash donations are also needed. 100% of all cash donations designated for the Holiday Gift Lift program go directly toward the purchase of gifts.
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"The shortage of psychiatrists is an escalating crisis … of more severity than shortages faced in virtually any other specialty."
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Self-help has some key advantages over professional counseling in that it’s inexpensive, convenient, and you can tailor the program to your own schedule. Self-help books, ebooks, articles and Internet sites focusing on mental health can increase your knowledge and understanding of your behaviors and thought processes
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During times of stress or adversity, the body goes through a number of changes designed to make us faster, stronger, more alert, more capable versions of ourselves. Our heart rate increases, blood pressure goes up, and adrenaline and cortisol (the stress hormone) surge through the body. In the short-term, this is brilliant, but the changes were only ever mean to be for the short-term. Here’s what happens …
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Mustering solid evidence, two researchers have denounced the standard psychiatric guidelines for how best to wean patients from depression medications.
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Cortisol plays a number of roles in the body, and not all of them are bad, including maintaining healthy blood pressure levels, regulating blood sugar, and turning food into energy.