While psychiatry definitely utilizes some medications to help patients deal with mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and OCD, there are other options that can be used instead of or in addition to medication. Things like nutrition, exercise, sleep, social connections, and stress reduction are the five pillars of lifestyle medicine which we apply in our practice to help patients get the best outcome.

Depression, anxiety, and sex aren’t things most people usually think of together, but I don’t think anybody is really surprised that there’s a relationship once they stop to think about it. The relationship between sexual health and mental health is both multifaceted and multidirectional.