Mental Health Awareness Week

Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology:

Neurology and Psychiatry/Psychology are intimately ties together and as the mechanism of disease processes becomes better understood, these diagnoses often transition to the field of Neurology (depression is getting there), but usually neurological diagnoses involve the nerves and their coverings, while psychiatric diagnoses involve the synapses.

Neurological diagnoses are often stigmatized, even with something as simple as stigmatizing language in the media. Psychiatric diagnoses have an even ore difficult time -- think postpartum depression and Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields, although this was very helpful in raising awareness (especially with those effective television commercials). Just think about how people perceive bipolar disorder -- it is incorrectly seen as a psychotic disorder as opposed to depression, with one episode of mania.

This week is mental health awareness week and we'd like to invite this community into Neurologique's efforts and that of the Florida NeuroAlliance (FLNA).

Unfortunately, I heard someone speak on a radio show and they said:

First you get your brain healthy with psychiatrists starting medications, then you go to psychologists for counseling.

Huh?

- Dr. Daniel Kantor, MD BSE
Medical Director
Neurologique

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