Psychopharmacology Treatment
Psychopharmacology can play an important role in helping someone with a mood disorder find enough stability to begin the process of rebuilding a life. Our comprehensive assessment lays the foundation for developing a plan that includes those medications most likely to be helpful. We often find that, after a comprehensive assessment, we are able to help people who have “tried every medication without success.”
Just as with the assessment process, we think of psychopharmacological treatment as a collaboration. Part of that collaboration involves providing you with the tools to keep careful track of mood, anxiety, sleep and other factors related to mood changes. In the course of mood charting we find that people get better at identifying how and when their moods change. Ultimately our goal is to have each person become an expert on their moods, so that they can learn what works to help them build stability.
Not everyone we see decides to use psychiatric medications, but mood charting is an essential component to treatment even if the only biological interventions involve diet, exercise, light exposure and tracking daily rhythms.
Our psychopharmacologists have extensive training in how to use a wide range of medicines, including some that aren't typically prescribed for mental illnesses; how these drugs affect functions such as metabolism or heart rate; and how they interact with other medications.
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