Leela Magavi, M.D., Psychiatrist and Regional Medical Director at Mindpath Health, formerly Community Psychiatry, discusses complicated grief and how to cope. It's fair to say that grief is a complicated state in all its forms. People deal with it in different ways,...
Community Psychiatry's Dr. Magavi was featured in Healthline discussing ways to cope after losing loved ones. Bob and Bano Carlos were married 53 years when they both died from COVID-19. According to their daughter, Tracey Carlos, they were inseparable. “As important...
When someone in our life dies or we experience a transformational loss, we want to be supported by friends, family and our community while we grieve. Typically, the loss is ritualized through private or public ceremony, such as a funeral. Society acknowledges our loss...
By Denise Padilla de Font In part one of this blog post, I discussed the complexities of processing and recovering from a miscarriage. Here, I’ll share more on the emotional process that comes after miscarriage, as well as some less common ways to cope. In part one, I...
By Denise Padilla de Font Being a therapist didn’t spare me from the effect that recurring miscarriages had on my mental health. I had plenty of moments I thought I’d never be whole again, days and nights feeling humbled to the core, weeping, cursing everything I...
You probably have heard about gentrification in the news recently. It’s the process of wealthy people moving into an urban neighborhood and raising the property values to the point of displacing lower income residents. Gentrification was first coined by urban...
Guilt is an incredibly powerful emotion. There is a wide range of things to feel guilty about - from feeling guilty about eating the last piece of pizza to feeling guilty about someone you hurt in your childhood. Some may wonder how guilt affects our mental health....
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