We are talking about how medications can help our mental health and challenge the stigma around this.

Colin White is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner and has been providing treatment to individuals in need of psychiatric services for close to a decade. He has served individuals across the lifespan with a wide range of psychiatric conditions. Colin has also provided medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder and alcohol use disorder. He currently works as the main attending provider on an adolescent unit, where he oversees the treatment of 12 adolescents on a daily basis. In addition to his duties to treat patients, he has been a teacher to multiple medical students and nurse practitioner students.

What we get into:

How medications can help us with our mental health

How therapy and medication management complement each other in treatment

Talking about our own mental health struggles and experiences to break the stigma of taking medications

How to trust your prescriber and the medication process and still be an advocate for yourself if something does not feel right for you

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