Why See a Specialist for Psychiatric NP for Medication Management When Your PCP Can Prescribe Meds? When people seek help for anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, or other mental health concerns, they often start with their primary care provider (PCP). PCPs play an essential role in healthcare and are often the first point of contact … Read more
Why So Many Are Misunderstood If you work in the eating disorder field, you’ve most certainly worked with neurodivergent individuals. For too long, eating disorder conversations have centered almost exclusively around body image, dieting, and a desire to lose weight. Yet for many neurodivergent people, the relationship with food is far more complex than wanting … Read more
School Transitions With ADHD: Your Survival & Success Guide Transitions—entering a new school year, changing schools, starting high school, or heading off to college can add stress. Changing gears after summer is hard for all of us. Busier schedules, new routines, new teachers (and expectations). And—if you have ADHD—even more executive-function juggling: keeping track of … Read more
We recently wrote a post about the overlap of ADHD and eating disorders and received a thoughtful response from a reader about the additional intersection of trauma. I wanted to follow up with an additional blog post exploring this. In eating disorder treatment, getting the full picture of what’s going on with a client is … Read more