Turn Your Life in the Right Direction

A time of emotional stress or crisis can be a turning point in a person’s life and not a breaking point-----a time of hope and not of despair.

Stress is a natural part of life:

• Children, adolescents and adults all have stress in their life;
• It can be difficult at times to function at our best trying to meet the ever-increasing demands of  contemporary life;
• We may develop significant distress in the form of symptoms such as depression, anxiety, school problems, excessive anger or work problems;
• Conflict is present in all families; and
• Some crises are unavoidable and relate to a person or family’s passage from one stage to another.

The stress of everyday life can be overcome:

• Individuals or families in distress often describe their experience as feeling “locked up” and hopeless, with few ways out.
• Early evaluation, detection and proper intervention can help a patient or family avoid or lessen such risks.
• Neither you nor your family need to go through stress all alone.

Open the door

Treatment with Howard S. Rudominer, MD, and his associates Kathleen Pendergast, APN and Katherine Jackman,APN is geared toward helping individuals, and families “open the door” back into themselves and turn their life in the right direction.

Find out more

Learn more about:

• the types of treatment offered to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families, and
• specific problems and disorders that we treat.

  	Ask Dr. Rudy	Doctor Rudy on Facebook Read and comment on recent developments in mental health Post topics for open discussion My mission is to destigmatize mental illness and to impart important mental health information to the public.  One-in-five Americans experienced mental illness in past year.  Mental illnesses can be managed successfully, and people do recover. As I say on my website, a time of emotional stress or crisis can be a turning point in a person’s life and not a breaking point-----a time of hope and not of despair. Mental illness is not an isolated public health problem. Proper and early diagnosis and treatment can lead to successful outcomes of mental illness! Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity often co-exist with mental illness and treatment of the mental illness can reduce the effects of these disorders as well!