{"id":6316,"date":"2020-05-08T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T08:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/are-you-metabolically-healthy-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:34:55","slug":"the-functional-medicine-approach-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/the-functional-medicine-approach-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The Functional Medicine Approach For Stress, Anxiety and Depression – Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mental health disorders such as Anxiety and Depression can significantly impact your quality of life. While the conventional medicine approach focuses mainly on balancing neurotransmitters in the brain, a functional medicine approach looks in an integrative way and wants to find out the sources of imbalance and then treat the underlying cause.<\/p>\n

When we think about mental health through a functional medicine perspective, we want to consider what are the underlying causes that have led to the psychological distress in the first place. Therefore, we will start with a full case history, understanding physical, psycho-social and mental stressors.\u00a0 Additionally, a full blood panel will be ordered and laboratory specimens to understand potential imbalances and deficiencies.<\/p>\n

Areas that are covered during the history taking:<\/p>\n

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  1. Patient’s Background Information<\/li>\n
  2. Why is the patient looking for treatment? What are the primary factors motivating the patient to come for treatment? What aspects of the patient\u2019s life circumstances, significant events, symptoms\/disorders, or problematic emotions\/behaviours are contributing to his\/her problems (e.g., health problems, relationship issues, angry outbursts, anorexia, substance abuse, work difficulties, stage of life)?<\/li>\n
  3. Assessment of the current level of functioning in the following areas: Occupational\/School performance, Intimate Relationships, Family Relationships, Friends and Alone time.<\/li>\n
  4. Major Life Problems\/Symptoms: potential trauma<\/li>\n
  5. Childhood & Adolescent Origins of Current Problems: Core unmet needs biological, genetic and cultural influences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Functional medicine is unique in that it asks the patient to take an active part in their healing. The therapy approach called \u201cSchema Therapy<\/a>\u201d is exactly constituted to understand the underlying\/root core issues and at the same time understand current maladaptive coping modes that contribute to depression and anxiety disorders.<\/p>\n

    For more information regarding the functional medicine approach to mental health, please contact Registered Psychologist Julia Andre at 2881 8131 or reception@lifeclinic.com.hk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Mental health disorders such as Anxiety and Depression can significantly impact your quality of life. While the conventional medicine approach focuses mainly on balancing neurotransmitters in the brain, a functional medicine approach looks in an integrative way and wants to find out the sources of imbalance and then treat the underlying cause. When we think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-cognition","category-functional-medicine"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Female_Therapist_1296x728-header-1-1296x728-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8866,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6316\/revisions\/8866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeclinic.com.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}