146: Medication for Anxiety and Depression with Kim Leight, PsyNP

The Teen Life Coach

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4.6 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This episode we are joined by a special guest Kim Leight! Kim is a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and knows all things when it comes to prescribing medication for anxiety and depression. Kim answers some of the most common questions I get from teens and parents about medication use and helps to sort out some of the myths around treating mental illness with medications. Kim's website: https://kimleightpc.com/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking
0:05.5	about medications for anxiety and depression with Kim Light. Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast today.
0:14.8	I'm super excited about today's episode and interview with Kim Light. She's so sweet and kind. And I hope you guys enjoy
0:24.2	learning from her. And I hope that the information that she shares with you guys is helpful.
0:29.7	So here is the interview. Let's get into this. Hello, you guys. Welcome to the podcast today.
0:36.7	I am so unbelievably excited for today's episode. We have Kim Light on the podcast. She's joining me today. And I was actually really nervous to ask her to come on the podcast, but I did. And she said yes, you guys. And I'm so grateful for her in my life.
0:56.9	She's taught me so much. And I am so grateful that she's here on the podcast today to share
1:02.8	with us her wisdom and her knowledge. So Kim, why don't you just start out and tell us a little
1:08.1	bit about yourself? We'll do.
1:12.1	I'm Kim Light.
1:14.3	I'm a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
1:19.7	I've been practicing for almost 25 years with all ages.
1:25.6	I was initially a pediatric nurse and just fell in love with helping people with psychiatric symptoms and concerns. All ages, like I said,
1:29.1	I've seen a lot of children, adolescents over the years, struggling with depression, anxiety,
1:34.8	ADHD symptoms. And I really enjoy helping people. And she's really good at it,
1:39.8	you guys. She's very, very good at helping people. So the main purpose in having you on here today is to kind of just help us understand medication,
1:50.4	what the myths about taking medication for depression, anxiety, ADHD, those kind of things.
1:57.1	And I just, I hear from a lot of people, they just don't want to take medication.
2:02.2	I feel like it has just such a negative connotation assigned with it.
2:06.6	And so I want you to kind of help us to understand a little bit more about what taking
2:12.6	medication really means for somebody and how it can be a good thing. And you're the expert on that, right?
2:19.8	Well, I'd like to think so. I have a lot of experience. Yeah, you do have a lot of experience.
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