Holiday Depression or Seasonal Depression? Colorado Psychiatrists Share Warning Signs and Free 2026 Survival Kit

Axis Integrated Mental Health releases a free 34-page Holiday Wellness Survival Kit with practical strategies for managing holiday anxiety & seasonal depression “A kit can help with holiday stress. It can’t treat depression. If the low mood started long before the holidays, that’s our cue.” — Dr. Kartiki Churi, MD DENVER, CO, UNITED STATES, October…

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8 Journal Prompts for Holiday Stress

Most holiday advice tells you what to do. Journaling asks you what you want, which is a different question and often a harder one. By the first week of December, many people are running on a list of obligations they never chose, and they haven’t had ten quiet minutes to notice. These eight prompts come…

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Lexapro Not Working This Fall? Spravato Can Help

Written by Samrawit Mersha (PMHNP-BC), and clinically reviewed by Kartiki Churi, MD, MBA, FAPA, Chief Medical Officer, Axis Integrated Mental Health. Lexapro often feels like it is not working in the fall because shorter days change how your brain handles serotonin; the same chemical Lexapro works on. Some people also build tolerance to SSRIs over…

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‘Is it perimenopause, or does my life actually suck?’ A new free eBook answers the question women can’t ask out loud

A companion guide for partners launches alongside it, because the people closest to her usually have no idea what’s happening either. Every perimenopausal woman I see has already built a case against herself.” — Dr. Kartiki Churi, Chief Medical Officer at Axis Integrated Mental Health Axis Integrated Mental Health today released Perimenopause? Or Does Your…

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Why Do Holidays Affect Women More?

If you know which cousin is vegetarian, which gift still needs wrapping, and what time the airport shuttle leaves, you already know the answer to this question. The holidays do not land on everyone equally. In our clinics, the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s bring a wave of women who are less sad than…

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