Capstone Mental Health

I bring my education in integrative medicine (IM) and Western medicine to the clinical setting. I have extensive experience, a true love of treating elderly people with Alzheimer's, various forms of dementia, anxiety, depression, and grief. I also have experience in treating people of all ages for ADHD/ADD.

Melatonin is the hormone responsible for sleep. Your body begins producing it when the sun sets and day turns to night. Melatonin peaks at midnight and stays high until about 3:00 am. From there, it declines rapidly and which allows for wakefulness. Taking 3mg of melatonin 2 hours before bed (for example, at 8:00 pm) increases the amount of melatonin in the brain so that it adds to the natural amount produced in the body.

Is your inability to focus or do tasks efficiently preventing you from achieving your goals? You might have thought to yourself if you have ADHD it would have been identified sooner. You might wonder why you lose your keys, phone, or other important items so often. Or maybe you have found a system that works for you like keys always go in a specific place.

Do you think about the decisions you've made in your life and wish you'd made different ones? Do you have times where your heart is racing, it is hard to catch your breath, or you feel like you're going to jump out of your skin? The thought of going to the grocery store where there are so many people is just too much?

Are you trying to balance getting up at night to check on your family member, helping them to the bathroom, or comforting them when they are scared with a career and family yourself? Are you getting calls from the facility your family member is in saying you've got to do something to help them, their behaviors are out of control?