The First Steps to Managing Your Mental Health with Dr. Ken Duckworth • X100
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- How to make sure you have the right diagnosis.
- How to make sure your provider or your medications are the right fit.
- How to assist in your own recovery outside of therapy.
When you’re depressed or struggling, it can be hard to do anything at all, let alone find a therapist, book an appointment, and actually get there… week after week after week.
And then there are the medications. Maybe your doctor prescribes you something, but how do you know how to measure if it is effective? How do you know how long to try? Or when to switch? Is that even safe?
And then why does therapy work so well for some and not for others? What should you be doing between sessions to feel the benefits?
Well, that’s what we’re talking about today.
Our guest is Ken Duckworth. He’s the chief medical officer of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and has worked with NAMI since 2003. He is board certified in adult psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His passion for this work comes from his loving dad, who had bipolar disorder.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mind Love Premium, episode 100. |
| 0:03.0 | Today's episode is all about the first steps to managing your mental health. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, if your voice is telling you that you're a terrible person, well let's talk about that. |
| 0:11.0 | What is the worst thing you ever did? |
| 0:13.5 | Well, I stole a comic book when I was nine. |
| 0:16.1 | So this works for thoughts and it works for voices |
| 0:19.6 | and other experiences. |
| 0:21.1 | Questioning, challenging, assessing is the reality of this experience, whether it's a thought or a voice, something I should believe, or should I just question it, and knowing from your prior vulnerability that when you're |
| 0:35.1 | depressed all of our thoughts get more negative you still don't have to believe them. |
| 0:39.8 | If this is your first time giving your mind a little love, don't forget to hit the |
| 0:47.9 | subscribe button. Mind love is a habit and the more you give your mind that love |
| 0:52.4 | and intention, the better you'll feel about |
| 0:54.5 | yourself and your life. Plus, it's really a win-win because more subscribers means mind-love |
| 1:00.2 | attracts even more amazing guests to bring you their wisdom so don't forget to |
| 1:04.5 | subscribe. We can go pretty deep with mind love. I love targeting specifics and |
| 1:11.4 | peeling away layers but what if you're just |
| 1:14.9 | starting out? What if you're just starting to accept that you might need a little |
| 1:20.1 | extra help? Or maybe you've just received a mental health diagnosis and |
| 1:25.4 | don't know where to go from here. Or maybe you see a loved one struggling and |
| 1:30.4 | you want to guide them towards some proactive first steps. |
| 1:34.0 | In my personal journey, I had a hard time with professional help. |
| 1:39.0 | Therapy as a teen didn't seem to do much. |
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