Schizophrenia and Psychotic Spectrum Disorders are serious mental illnesses affecting thought processes, emotions, and behavior. Symptoms may include paranoia, severe and unpredictable mood swings, hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and bizarre behavior. Untreated psychosis results in more severe symptoms, hospitalizations, social problems, and poor health, including a shorter life expectancy. Our
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Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Disorders are complex, hereditable illnesses marked by extreme mood swings lasting more than a few days and without a clear external triggering event. Manic phases of the illness present as sleeping very little and feeling energized—often with reckless behavior, excessive spending, and hypersexuality. Depressive phases can last months and
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness marked by great difficulty regulating emotions, impulsivity, suicidality and self-harm, impairment in relationship functioning and social cognition, affecting the ability to read people and their intentions accurately. In more serious cases, it is common for individuals to have multiple psychiatric diagnoses. Fortunately,
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Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) is in a special class of depressive disorders that rarely respond to medications or therapy alone. When depression persists despite normal treatment, those suffering become disillusioned and may blame themselves for lack of a positive response. Suicidal ideation and substance use are all too common responses to
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Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder does not respond quickly to evidence-based treatment approaches such as exposure and response prevention (ERP). The intensity of exposures in briefer treatment programs can be overwhelming and cause increases in anxiety, obsessional thoughts, and compulsive behaviors in some individuals. Monarch’s slower-paced approach allows individuals to modulate exposures
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