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Adult Mood Disorders Program
Depression, Anxiety, & Bipolar Disorder

Hope & Healing
Mood disorders are the most common form of mental health problems that people face.  Mood disorders can affect anyone, anytime.  It's the second leading cause of disability in the United States. 

Just Snap Out of It
Sure, everyone feels blue or anxious sometime.  However, clinical depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder occur when these feelings become strong enough and last long enough to begin to interfere in a person's life.  Often, chemical or biological changes can occur that cause a person to get "stuck" and can not just "snap out of it" on their own.  It has nothing to do with a person being "weak" or "strong".  These are painful feelings and although the person feeling them may think that there is nothing that can be done - there is treatment, hope and prevention.  Hopelessness may be so strong right now that they may not even seem willing to get help... that's where friends and family must step in and be the ones to help their loved one get the help until they can begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel themselves.
 A Fresh Approach to Mood Disorder:
Mindfulness & Acceptance

Depression, Anxiety and other problems in mood are a result of living a life that is out of balance in some important way.  For example, depression never springs out of an otherwise healthy, vital, purposeful life.  Depression is not an aberration, a fluke, or an accident of nature.  It is a logical result of what you're putting into your life.  Your depression, anxiety or mood problem is trying to tell you something that you need to listen to.  It's a signal that you need to spring into action and address the aspects of your life that are out of balance.

Most people want the same things in life: good health; loving relationships; meaningful work experiences; and positive recreational, spiritual, and leisure activities.  This is vital to a life worth living, and pursuing these goals is not a feel-good exercise with one pleasant event leading to another.  Rather it is a commitment to living, in which you willingly experience your feelings and thoughts, both wanted and unwanted, and do what is valuable or meaningful to you.

 Despite how you may feel, there is hope and healing that works.
As with any treatment, deciding to get help can be one of the most difficult steps of recovery.  Often the person may be hesitant or even deny that they have a problem.  This is when the courage of family and friends, insisting on treatment, can save their loved one's life.   Once engaged in treatment and recovery, the once hesitant person will begin to realize the relief and benefits of a more balanced lifestyle and back on the right path.


How to begin?
All treatment begins with a comprehensive assessment along with close collaboration with your physician and other providers whom the client sees, such as a therapist or psychiatrist.  If the client does not have a therapist or psychiatrist we can refer you to one.

After an assessment, usually an hour session, a treatment plan and goals will be developed.  If the client is a good candidate for one of Journeys' programs, they may be able to start the program within a day or two.  Delays in care are avoided at all costs.  The Adult Mood Disorders Intensive Outpatient Program is held three days or three evenings per week, usually for 2 1/2 hours per session. Most clients are able to successfully graduate in four to eight weeks.  One session per week includes the family or loved ones, we insist that they attend or make individual arrangements.

Please call us 24/7 if you or a loved one is needing help
816-304-3251 or 816-885-7439.
 The initial assessment is free and can usually be conducted same day or next day.

If you have general questions and are not in crisis, you may use the form below to submit your question.
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