Nervous System · Trauma · Stress · Bedre Health Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn:Your Nervous System’s Survival Toolkit When your body detects danger — real or perceived — it launches one of four automatic responses before your conscious mind has any say. Understanding which one you default to changes everything about how you understand your […]
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Telehealth · Psychiatry · Getting Help · Bedre Health The Complete Guide to Telehealth Psychiatryin Massachusetts and New Hampshire Everything you need to know about getting psychiatric care online — from what conditions are treated, to how prescriptions work, to what your first appointment will look like. No surprises. Just clear information. Bedre Health Clinical
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ADHD · Medication · Psychiatry · Bedre Health ADHD Stimulant Medication:What’s True, What’s Not, and What to Actually Expect Stimulant medications for ADHD are among the most studied medications in all of psychiatry. They are also among the most misunderstood — by people considering them, by families concerned about them, and by prescribers who don’t
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ADHD · Comorbidities · Diagnosis · Bedre Health ADHD Rarely Comes Alone:Understanding ADHD Comorbidities The majority of adults with ADHD have at least one co-occurring condition. Anxiety, depression, learning differences, sleep disorders, and substance use are far more common in ADHD than in the general population. Understanding why — and what to treat first —
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Mental Health · Crisis Planning · Safety · Bedre Health Your Mental Health Crisis Plan:Build It When You’re Well, Use It When You’re Not A crisis plan is a document you create when you’re thinking clearly, for use when you’re not. It identifies your warning signs, your resources, your actions, and your contacts — so
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ADHD · Emotional Regulation · Mental Health · Bedre Health ADHD and Emotional Dysregulation:The Symptom That’s Wrecking Your Relationships Emotional dysregulation — intense, rapid, difficult-to-control emotional responses — is one of the most impairing ADHD features and one of the least discussed. It doesn’t appear in the DSM criteria. It appears in nearly every ADHD
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Therapy Tools · Mental Health · Wellbeing · Bedre Health Gratitude Practice:What the Research Actually Supports — and What Doesn’t Work Gratitude journaling is the most widely recommended wellbeing practice in existence. It is also frequently implemented in ways that produce little benefit. The difference between effective and ineffective gratitude practice comes down to specificity,
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Nervous System · Anxiety · Stress · Bedre Health Nervous System Reset TechniquesThat Are Actually Backed by Science When the nervous system is activated — heart racing, thoughts spiraling, body tense — you need tools that work at the biological level, not just the cognitive one. These techniques directly signal the autonomic nervous system to
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Therapy Tools · Self-Compassion · Mental Health · Bedre Health Self-Compassion:Why Kindness Toward Yourself Is a Clinical Tool, Not Indulgence Self-compassion is one of the most researched psychological interventions of the past two decades. It is not self-pity, not lowered standards, not letting yourself off the hook. It is a specific practice with measurable effects
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ADHD · Working Memory · Executive Function · Bedre Health ADHD Working Memory:Why You Forget — and What Actually Helps Working memory is the brain’s mental whiteboard — the ability to hold and manipulate information in mind while doing something else. In ADHD, this whiteboard is smaller and less reliable. Understanding the deficit changes everything
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