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A psychiatric-mental health NP (PMHNP) is a nurse practitioner’s certification that specializes in mental health and promotes advanced psychiatric care and management. I personally created PMHealth NP hub to advocate for accessible mental health care and provide free resources. Content is intended for clinicians, professional students/facilities specializing in psych, and others providing psych care or similar interests, please read the disclaimer or find standard resources.

Feb.-March 2025: Are you still hanging in there? Great! Please 🛑Comment Here🛑to oppose the DEA trying to put more restrictions on prescribers and tell them about the lack of access for health services before March 18, 2025.

I get the DEA concerns, but this will affect millions -many patients can’t drive, special needs, elderly, live in rural areas, etc. and people who went years without help, are finally able to receive some form of treatment. I also don’t see many people heading into the psych profession and I don’t blame them. Most people are barely taking care of themselves let alone others and getting pushed to the limits everyday.

I try to avoid politics because it’s a trigger, but unfortunately the government wants more control. Why isn’t this okay? Because look at all the useless spending, our economy, the cost of living, taxes, lack of resources, everything is bloated and already restrictive to just live a basic rough life.

Our government usually makes everything worse and our agencies aren’t making anything better and overall everything is really just profit-driven. I wish they cared, but how is that possible when they primarily listen to the 1% or the shareholders.

They’re not even listening to the doctors and yet, the government is supposed to have our best interest?? Well I mention this because the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) is not different. I’ve had to go through so much just to get a license in another state, despite not even prescribing scheduled medications. I gave up trying in another state, the whole west coast is restrictive, I have more hope in Mt. Rainer erupting than for things to get better.  

There’s no one to contact, numbers disconnected, hung up on… thankfully I’ve saved an email, I think they finally responded out of pity. I had to find a collaborative physician, spending HUNDREDS, despite not prescribing schedules… This had to occur to be panel with insurance and everyone knows insurance is another scam… anyway I didn’t plan to see people in another state, but it’s so dire that people are just desperate and found me in other ways.

I honestly can’t count more than 3 psychiatrists in general in my state so I understand the pain. Let’s do some rough statistics… without researching, have you ever noticed that the worst crimes are from the states that are the MOST restrictive for nurse practitioners? Unfortunately as smart and as great doctors are, they can’t keep up with the demand…. and good luck finding one! Meanwhile, more people and families are becoming more hopeless by the day.

On a good note, I did 3 posts today! I have a lot more to say but overall I’m doing super great and happy. I had plans to post more but my younger siblings decided to visit me to play videogames this week. This was not my choice, but I try to be nice. Yup, if you ever want to learn how to not care, study the youth! It can be a war on the horizon, market crashes, UFOs and they just have no thoughts about any of it but give them HOPE. I told one of my younger patients that despite what’s going on in our country, there are still adults out here that care and she got emotional. Then it dawn on me that if you think you’re struggling imagine the youth trying to figure everything out so they’re coping the best they can. Sometimes all you have to do is listen, so don’t be hard on yourselves or rush anything. Try to take it easy and stay focused🌻

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January-Feb. 2025: Welcome and Happy Winter. Sorry for the delays, I got bombarded over the holidays, cooking, running around, praying no one ends up in jail. I honestly thank everyone for being patient with me. It wasn’t my plans to keep the website off for that long and still making changes, but to make a long story short -I have international populations and had to rewrite a lot to make things easier to understand because yes I want psych care to be global so I can live on a beach… and apparently I wrote a lot on this website so it’ll take me awhile to rewrite stuff…and looking back at what and how I was writing I’m overall ashamed. I probably should’ve been medicated during the pandemic but, here I am! Moving forward, I will try to make the website more professional because the American healthcare system is getting worse… however, with regards to the website -it’ll be more lifestyle or practical related to mental health… some areas will have AI to make it straightforward, but with the blog -I can continue to ramble because that’s what make this website special! And there are millions of other normal websites, this will not be one of them.  Another reason why I needed to start writing again is because having my own practice, I feel the need to warn providers to just not do it or be careful. I’m trying to nice, but having a business is not ideal for the majority of people…including myself. I was so close to just starting another business away from healthcare and to make desserts, but then my family reminded me that the general population is no different from the psych patients. So I’m stuck, but still happy and going strong. Thanks again for all the love✨

Sept/Oct. 2024: Yayyy! My baby is back up and running. I was going to put a post up and was shocked to see the site deleted. Thank goodness my urges and determination outweighs the rest of my craziness and was able to get it back.. Speaking of crazy, I’m currently doing my private practice and working at another one, mentoring, trying to start another business, and THIS website. So forgive me the absence and not being able to respond to emails, but the good news is that I’m back with a vengeance and I have MUCH to say about everything so if something happens to the website… I’ll just start another one llol.. I have major posts/update plans for October. Thank you for your patience! Hopefully, everyone is doing well…I’ve been great despite our mental health care system getting worse, which is why I won’t stop babbling or writing… not to mention how the access to care IS disappearing or being ignored. Continue to make sure you’re taking care of yourselves as well! I brace people for how times will get worse and to stay grounded/focused… Eventually, the website will discuss more lifestyle issues such as the dreaded taxes and finances… and not just healthcare. Alright, be back soon! 🍂🍂Happy Fall🍂🍂  

March 2024: I’m still in the universe. I know it’s been a roller coaster for everyone and WOW with everything that’s going on! In addition to starting my practice, I’m already ready to retire lol I’m still building a caseload, slowly but surely because being selective with everything is important… I do plan on doing a post about the whole process while having some form of inner peace. In the meantime, I’m trying to get through taxes lol… I also wanted to focus part of the website on lifestyle topics, especially with finances and I’m hoping to start content/updates again by the summer/fall when things level out a little more! Like I don’t need or want any more curve balls okay take care of yourselves as well :))