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Welcome to the Libsyn version of the Anxiety Road Podcast, this is the involuntary journey finding medical, behavioral health, meditation, relaxation and x=the unknown treatment options and resources for people that have anxiety, panic attacks and phobias too.

This podcast is treatment agnostic. You can find more content and resources at https://anxietyroadpodcast.blogspot.com

Oct 23, 2022

In the introduction to this episode, I mention the financial bum rush of companies providing mental health apps to clients, patients and customers.

Still working on that tact thing.
 
There is a small but growing segment of entrepreneurs that see gold in them there mental health hills.
 
Some of those entrepreneurs have honest intentions about making mental health accessible. They have hired psychologists and psychiatrists to help shape their product.
 
Others vendors are more focused on building chat bots that provide rote services that can be sold to businesses.
 
Probably as a checkbox for saying "Hey, we have provided this mental health gizmo, saves you money and that will allow you as business person to give us money. Win-Win."
 
But sometimes, you need a living licensed professional that will meet with you and your problems.
 
HMO doctors ain't got the time or the training for that kind of service.
 
Psychologists will talk to you but cannot provide medication treatment or management.

Psychiatrists are in short supply. Many are ageing out of the profession. Those that haven't are either booked solid or priced out of the range of most people.
 
There is another option. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners. That is the topics of this episode.
 
In the episode, I mentioned that I was going to post an image or maybe a video about accessing the two psychiatric nurse search engines. 
 
I'll figure something out.

If you need support contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-8255, the Trevor Project at 1-866-488-7386 or text “START” to 741-741.

Resources Mentioned: 

Association of American Medical Colleges post about the psychiatrist shortage.
 
The Myth of Normal, Trauma, Illness & Healing in A Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate, M.D. with Daniel Mate. Published by Avery Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.  
 
I also recommend that you check out a video that he talks a bit more about the myth of normal.
 
American Psychiatric Nurse Association page About Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing
 
 
The American Association of Nurse Practitioners web site has a Find a Nurse Practitioner search engine for those practitioners.   
 
Psychology Today has a therapist search engine. It also is a little fiddly but you can use it to locate psychiatric nurse practitioners.
 

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