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Medication for Depression or Anxiety

Gary Direnfeld

If you have been prescribed medication for depression or anxiety, it is important to know it can take a good four to six weeks before you truly feel the benefit. Unlike a Tylenol for a headache which usually reaches therapeutic level in about 20 minutes, medications for depression and anxiety literally takes weeks.

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When the kid listens in without the parent knowing….

Gary Direnfeld

With that the child can become depressed and/or anxious. The depression is about feeling badly for being ineffective. Depression and/or anxiety in kids can show itself through behavior as well as school issues or those of concentration and attention. As they try to make things better, the problems typically continue.

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Depression. It Can Creep Up on You…

Gary Direnfeld

It’s a depressive episode. Eventually it is labeled a major depressive episode. The impacts are so much greater than the abject depression of the individual. Education, learning this is not a choice, but the impacts of a major depressive episode is key to survival and adjustment for everyone. It overwhelms.

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New Peripartum Depression Study Shows Gap Between Screening and Outcomes

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On Maternal Health Awareness Day , I would like to bring awareness to the publication of our peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine , “ Improving maternal mental health: Assessing the extent of screening and training about peripartum depression.” What is peripartum depression?

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Those Mental Health Symptoms May Have a Physical Basis

Gary Direnfeld

Her symptoms were consistent with depression. She was still depressed when we met. ” As much as she could be considered still depressed and perhaps even paranoid, that combined with low energy gave cause to think these were not signs of mental illness. .” She saw her doctor. She was prescribed an antidepressant.

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Why Are You Doing The Work of The Other Parent When Separated?

Gary Direnfeld

It can create anxiety, depression, false hope, and a sense that we must tolerate that which should not be tolerated or accepted. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Ask yourself, what are you chasing, pretending?

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When you are looking for your third, fourth or more therapist….

Gary Direnfeld

He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress. He speaks at conferences and workshops throughout North America.

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