Medication Management/Psychiatry

At Newark Behavioral Health, we support your desire for increased emotional stability and productivity by providing professional medication management services. Our Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners are knowledgeable, caring, and compassionate. They will listen and assess your situation carefully, then work with you collaboratively to achieve the best improvement in your mental health.

One of the greatest advantages to psychiatric medication is curbing and calming symptoms so other recovery work can take place. For example, calming racing thoughts or suicidal ideation allows therapy to become useful and constructive. Reducing intense anxiety or depression can help clients to make better use of therapy sessions. Medications lift barriers to focus, motivation, and progress for students and those already in the workforce. People can address the root trauma, thought cycles, coping and social skills underlying their mental health conditions once disabling symptoms no longer overwhelm and incapacitate on a daily basis. Psychiatric medications can also help avoid relapse and hospitalization, enhancing outpatient care.

Medications also carry benefits beyond treating condition markers. Anti-anxiety medications assist with sleep which plays an influential role in regulation emotions and energy levels. Certain drugs help people better adhere to diet, routines, and relationships which provide mental health protection. People experience elevated moods, self-esteem, and pleasure depending on their prescriptions and brain chemical makeup. Patience, impulse control, and decision making also improve on various psychiatric drugs.

While medications come with side effects and risks which must be weighed closely, the field continues advancing more customized, gentler options than past decades. Some people find psychiatric medication helpful for short-term crises. For some conditions, medications may be taken long-term for their best effect. Often, medications need a trial period, or adjustment from time to time as your body and situation changes. A caring provider can be there for you, helping to select the best treatment plan for your condition and stage of life. It all starts with listening to you! At Newark Behavioral Health, or medication providers specialize in listening first! Our psychiatric nurse practitioner can work with your therapist or other care givers to help you achieve your goals.

The stigma around psychiatric medication fades as more people share stories of how prescriptions granted them their lives back when no other intervention could. Still, drugs serve best as part of a multi-faceted treatment plan including therapy, movement and lifestyle changes for long-term mental health improvement. When combined appropriately, medication and non-pharmaceutical tools together allow beautiful possibilities for managing mental health concerns. At Newark Behavioral Health, we want you to have all the tools available to live your best life, and medication is sometimes a part of that.