A staggering number of American adults have experienced a mental health illness each year. In 2021, that number reached over 57 million Americans. We want to shed light on the importance of mental healthcare checkups becoming as standard as our physical check-ups and with evolvedMDs collaborative care model, it is as simple as seeing you primary care doctor. For more information visit evolvedmd.com
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00:00 Almost 60 million Americans struggle with mental health
00:02 each year.
00:03 Here to shed light on mental health checkups
00:05 is Darina from EvolvedMD.
00:07 Darina, welcome.
00:08 - Thank you.
00:09 Nice to be here.
00:10 - Absolutely.
00:11 This is such an important topic.
00:12 And I just read that intro that said 60 million Americans.
00:17 That is an insane number.
00:19 Can you shed a little light on that for us?
00:21 - Absolutely.
00:22 Right now it's looking like two of five Americans
00:25 are experiencing mental health issues.
00:27 - Two of five.
00:29 So, okay, we all know, we all have five good friends.
00:33 If you really think about that,
00:35 two out of those five people are potentially struggling
00:38 with mental health issues.
00:39 Maybe it's anxiety, maybe it's depression,
00:41 whatever it may be.
00:42 Two out of those five people are struggling.
00:44 That's a huge number.
00:45 - Yeah, it's a large impact.
00:47 And when we put that into perspective,
00:49 that's two of five friends, two of five coworkers,
00:52 two of five anybody, the grocery store, right?
00:56 It's very normal.
00:57 It's very common.
00:58 And there is a solution to managing stress.
01:00 - I love that.
01:01 Okay, so walk us through what the solution would be.
01:04 - So at Evolved MD, there's a program
01:06 called the Collaborative Care Program.
01:08 And what it would look like is you go
01:10 to your primary care physician's office,
01:13 you schedule a mental health checkup,
01:14 you let them know you are interested
01:16 in exploring more symptoms associated to anxiety,
01:20 depression, stress, and then your doctor
01:22 will get you connected to a full behavioral health care team.
01:25 - I love this because we already go
01:27 to our primary care physicians
01:29 for a physical checkup each year,
01:31 or however often we are doing that.
01:33 You know, maybe it's a little more often
01:34 or a little less often.
01:35 But you're going in to check on your physical well-being.
01:39 Why would you not take care
01:40 of your mental well-being as well?
01:42 - Well, there's a couple of reasons.
01:44 The biggest one is stigma, right?
01:46 And then there's the next part of it being unaffordable.
01:50 When we try to reach out, there's a provider shortage.
01:53 And oftentimes when we go
01:54 to our primary care physician's office,
01:57 there can be things like lack of training, right?
01:59 They don't even know who to get you connected to.
02:01 So Evolved MD is very different.
02:03 We're modern.
02:03 We place mental health experts
02:05 in the primary care physician's office.
02:07 So it's as simple as just going to your doctor,
02:09 scheduling an appointment,
02:11 and then getting connected to a therapist.
02:12 - That is a huge deal
02:14 because that is gonna make so many people
02:16 feel more comfortable because they don't have to go,
02:19 you know, no one wants to do the extra steps
02:21 of finding a therapist and reaching out to them.
02:26 It feels like one extra thing.
02:28 We're all busy.
02:29 No one has time for that.
02:30 This is something, you are already gonna do this.
02:32 Now you go in and you have this extra thing
02:34 that you just asked for,
02:35 and they're gonna take care of it for you right there.
02:37 - Boom, simple.
02:38 - I love it.
02:39 And I love that you guys have this modern approach
02:42 because I do think a lot of times,
02:44 you mentioned this already,
02:45 there's that stigma when it comes to mental health.
02:48 People think that perhaps it's not as important
02:51 or it's maybe not the kind of thing
02:54 they want to present to the world
02:55 is struggling in that way.
02:57 But we've learned recently in a more modern culture
03:01 that a lot of people are struggling with this.
03:03 And you are making this so accessible for so many people.
03:07 - And affordable.
03:08 - And affordable.
03:08 - And affordable.
03:09 - That's a huge deal because of course,
03:11 this is something that if you are struggling with this,
03:13 it's one more anxiety,
03:15 one more worry that you don't want to deal with.
03:17 - Come on now, you already know.
03:19 That's absolutely right.
03:20 - So give us a little bit more information
03:22 about how people find you and how they work with you.
03:24 - So you can find us at evolvedmd.com.
03:27 We have a list of our medical groups
03:29 that we're partnered with.
03:30 So if you're uncertain,
03:31 if your doctor provides this type of service,
03:33 you can check us out online.
03:35 Best thing that you can do though as a patient
03:37 is schedule an appointment
03:38 with your primary care physician.
03:39 Let them know that you need a mental health checkup
03:41 and then they'll get you set up with a therapist.
03:43 - That's so easy.
03:44 So you just go to your primary care doctor
03:48 and let them know and they are going to take
03:49 those next steps for you.
03:50 - Absolutely.
03:51 - That is so great.
03:52 And I know you guys,
03:53 I was reading in my notes earlier
03:55 that you're also always looking for great
03:57 behavioral health managers.
03:59 People who can join the team if that's how you phrase it.
04:03 Tell me a little bit about that if someone watching
04:05 is like, I want to be on the other side of this.
04:07 I want to help.
04:08 - Yeah, so if you are a behavioral health professional,
04:11 you're interested in rendering psychotherapy,
04:13 psychiatric services or anything in the mental health realm,
04:16 just apply online at EvolvedMD.
04:19 - There you go.
04:19 - And help those two out of five people
04:21 who may be struggling with this,
04:23 especially right now during the holidays.
04:25 This is a very stressful time for a lot of people.
04:27 This is the time that a lot of people start to get
04:29 those holiday blues, all that anxiety about being
04:32 with family or maybe lack thereof.
04:35 So this is really the time for people to reach out
04:37 and get that information.
04:38 And again, EvolvedMD.com.
04:41 - That's right.
04:41 - So nice and easy.
04:42 All right, Dorena, thank you so much for that information.
04:43 - Thank you for having me.
04:44 - That's really, really helpful.
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