KVC

MAY 24, 2022

These stories came from youth and families we’ve served, foster or adoptive families who support our mission, and KVC team members who provide in-home family therapy and support, mental health treatment, foster care, adoption, inpatient children’s psychiatric treatment or other life-changing services.

Foster Care 52

Foster Care Adoption Mental Health Hospitals 52

Bipolar Bandit

MARCH 7, 2024

Their severe depressions and highest of manic episodes can ruin relationships. It is when that happens, I don’t listen to reason, get into fights, do things I regret later, hurt the people I love and sometimes even end up in a psychiatric hospital. First, let me say it is not easy living with someone with bipolar disorder.

Disorder 52

Disorder Mental Health Communication Depression 52

Relias

AUGUST 22, 2023

For providers, untreated burnout can lead to fatigue, depression, and even suicidal ideation. For people who are substance dependent, they often experience pain, have psychiatric overlay, are using multiple substances, or have other chronic health conditions that haven’t been properly treated.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Administration Psychiatric Mental Health 52

Beautiful Voyager

APRIL 30, 2021

Leading me to feeling depressed, tired and sad. The fear of no longer feeling like myself Change in personality is a very common fear of people hesitating to get on a psychiatric medication. Studies and publications argue that it isn’t your personality that is changing but rather your feelings of depression and anxiety.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Psychiatric Anxiety Recovery 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 28, 2024

Yes, one for depression and one for anxiety. One sibling with bipolar disorder and a parent with psychotic depression, neither one chronic. I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Was I taking any medications? he asked me.

Hospitals 52

Hospitals Mental Health Depression Anxiety 52

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 29, 2022

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I have been through a series of around thirty medications, plenty of therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists’ doctors, drug infusions, and even electric shock. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Medicare 52

Beautiful Voyager

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Women predominate in the rates of common conditions such as anxiety and depression ( twice as much and more persistent than men ). Doctors are more likely to diagnose depression in women compared with men. I was in full panic mode, seven months into a major depression, anxiety disorder and fighting for survival. Unbelievable!

Psychology 52

Psychology Mental Health Recovery Depression 52

Clinical Philosophy

JANUARY 31, 2021

Sometimes they talk about, say, anxiety or depression or hypomania, sometimes about relationship and work difficulties. The therapist is selling herself, or some simulacrum of herself; the client is being cheated if this fact is played down or veiled. Beck A similar conception of love can be found in the writings of other therapists.

Psychotherapy 52

Psychotherapy Therapist Justice and Corrections Interviewing 52