83: Should You Use Medication to Manage Your Mental Health? w/Dr. Kim

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If you’ve ever considered using medication to deal with your mental health, questions about how it may affect your personality or do they even work may have crossed your mind. After all, we have all heard those horror stories about people looking like zombies after taking mental health medication. But what is often not talked about is the thousands of people each year who are able to break free from long-standing mental health issues through the use of medication. On today’s show, I’ve brought in board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist Dr. UeJin Kim to help us explore using medication to improve your mental health.
Here’s a glance at this episode:
{12:19} Why medications don’t work the way we expect at times?
{17:56} Using therapy and medication is the key
{22:16} Should teens take medication?
{28:27} Can medication impact career choice?
{30:00} Getting medication from a psychiatrist or primary care what’s the difference?
{33:23} Common medicines for depression and anxiety
{36:06} Tool box takeaway
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Dr. Kim's website https://www.restorepsych.com/
Dr. Kim's Podcast https://www.restorepsych.com/podcast
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