Social connection plays a pivotal role in lifestyle medicine for psychiatry. By recognizing and harnessing the power of relationships, mental health professionals can enhance their treatment approaches, leading to better outcomes for patients. Whether through community engagement, therapeutic interventions, or technology, fostering social connections is essential in nurturing mental well-being.

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.