Charleston, SC Psychiatrists

By Katherine Waters Michael’s Barkery is a pet spa and boutique in Mount Pleasant with a bit of a different mission. While providing homemade dog treats, grooming services and other […]

By Katie Thompson Clinician burnout impacts providers and patients but also the health care system, and the additional strain on clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic are unparalleled. Fortunately, health care […]

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to turn our lives upside down, it doesn’t surprise Dr. Anne Marie Albano that an increasing number of people are experiencing new or worsened mental […]

Life as we knew it changed in mid-March. The regular hum of the hustle and bustle now seems like a distant memory. To be able to hug a loved one, […]

According to the American Psychiatric Association, eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. People with eating disorders typically become preoccupied with food and with their body weight. An eating disorder takes over one’s thoughts, body and life. As someone who has recovered from […]

Five years ago, Mount Pleasant mom Elaine DeaKyne went to her obstetrician’s office. She’d given birth to her first daughter two months prior, and DeaKyne wondered if she might have postpartum depression. The nurse asked her a series of questions about how she was doing as a new mom, including “Do you think you would […]

Tyrone Jarmon said that if anyone would have told him 10 years ago that he would be a peer support specialist with the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center’s Substance Treatment and Recovery (STAR) Program, he would have thought they were crazy – mainly because he started his own sobriety treatment program in Asheville, North […]

If your idea of an alcoholic is a stupefied bum in a trench coat, slurping out of a brown paper bag, a quick glance around the cozy lounge in the College of Charleston’s Recovery Center will set you straight. The bright faces and animated chatter of a dozen or so students show hope. They also […]

Have you ever noticed the almost perverse pleasure we adults take in either bemoaning or bragging about our hectic work schedules and lifestyles? Psychologists suggest that our deliberate “hyper-busyness” may be a way to say to the world, “See me: I am productive and useful. Therefore, I have value and I matter.” Today’s excessive work […]

Behavioral and developmental disorders have become more common in recent years. While the jury is still out on whether those numbers can be attributed to better diagnoses or a toxic environment – or perhaps a combination of both – understanding these disorders is the first step toward helping those affected by them to live as […]