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Understand your care
Short, narrated videos — a few minutes each, with captions — on the medications, conditions, and coping skills that come up most in care. General education to watch anytime, at your own pace.
Medication education
How common psychiatric medications work, what to realistically expect, and why decisions always happen with your provider.
Antidepressants
The big picture
What antidepressants treat, how they gently rebalance brain messengers, the several-week timeline, and why the plan is a partnership with your provider.
SSRIs
How they work, what to expect
The most common antidepressant family — what the name means, what to expect in the first weeks, common side effects, and not stopping on your own.
SNRIs
Dual-action antidepressants
How SNRIs act on two brain messengers, what they're used for including some pain conditions, and what to watch for as you adjust.
Bupropion
An activating option
An antidepressant that works differently — often more activating, with a different side-effect profile — and who it may suit.
Stimulants for ADHD
Focus, safety, monitoring
How stimulant medications help attention, what safe use and monitoring look like, and the honest conversation to have with your provider.
Mood stabilizers
Steadying the highs and lows
What mood stabilizers do, why lab monitoring matters for some, and the steadiness they're meant to support over time.
Second-generation antipsychotics
More than psychosis
Why these medications are used well beyond psychosis, how they generally work, and what monitoring keeps them safe.
Benzodiazepines
Short-term relief, used carefully
Fast relief for acute anxiety — plus a clear-eyed look at tolerance, dependence, interactions, and why they're used short-term and never stopped abruptly.
Side effects
What's expected, and when to call
Which early effects usually settle, which are worth a message, and the difference between a nuisance and a reason to call right away.
Understanding your diagnosis
Plain-language explanations of common conditions — what they are, how they feel, and how they're treated.
Major depression
More than sadness
What depression actually is as a medical condition, how it shows up day to day, and the treatments that help most people recover.
Generalized anxiety
When worry won't switch off
How persistent worry differs from everyday stress, the toll it takes on body and mind, and how therapy and medication help.
Panic disorder
Understanding panic attacks
What a panic attack is, why it's frightening but not dangerous, and the skills and treatments that break the cycle.
Bipolar disorder
The highs, the lows, and steadiness
Understanding mood episodes across the spectrum, why accurate diagnosis matters, and the path toward steadiness.
Adult ADHD
Attention, focus, and follow-through
How ADHD looks in adults, why it's often missed, and the mix of strategies, structure, and treatment that helps.
PTSD
When the past stays present
How trauma can keep the alarm system switched on, the ways it shows up, and the evidence-based therapies that help it heal.
OCD
Obsessions and compulsions
What OCD really is beyond the stereotype, how the obsession–compulsion cycle works, and why specialized therapy is so effective.
Social anxiety
More than shyness
The fear of being judged that can shrink a life — and how treatment gradually widens it back out again.
Insomnia
Understanding sleep problems
Why sleep goes wrong, how the cycle keeps itself going, and the first-line approach that retrains healthy sleep.
Coping & distress-tolerance skills
Practical, do-it-along skills for getting through hard moments — practice them before you need them.
Paced breathing
Calm your body first
A simple, do-it-along breathing pace that settles the nervous system when distress spikes — practice it before you need it.
5-4-3-2-1 grounding
Anchoring to the present
A senses-based grounding exercise that pulls you out of spiraling thoughts and back into the here and now.
The TIPP skill
For overwhelming distress
Four fast, body-based tools for the most intense moments — how they work and how to use them safely.
Urge surfing
Riding out a craving or urge
How to ride an urge like a wave instead of fighting it — a skill for cravings, impulses, and strong emotions.
Radical acceptance
Letting go of the fight
Accepting reality as it is — not approving of it, but stopping the extra suffering that comes from fighting what can't be changed.
Self-soothe
Comfort through the five senses
A gentle, sensory toolkit for calming yourself with kindness when everything feels like too much.
The STOP skill
Pause before you react
Four steps to put space between a trigger and your reaction, so you act from your wise mind instead of the heat of the moment.
Unhooking from thoughts
You are not your thoughts
How to notice and step back from painful thoughts instead of being pulled around by them.
Your crisis coping plan
Ready before you need it
Build a personal plan — warning signs, coping steps, people to call, and a safer environment — so support is ready before a crisis hits.