May Mental Health Month at Capsule
Join us this month as we spotlight mental health organizations and providers across NYC
This year, at least one in five New Yorkers will experience a mental health disorder such as anxiety or depression, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The organization also notes that depression, specifically, is the single largest source of disability in our city.
At Capsule, we’ve partnered with hundreds of mental health professionals across the city to make sure that prescriptions are delivered responsibly and effectively, and that our customers have access to information and assistance whenever and however they need it.
Our pharmacists frequently field questions about when antidepressants should begin to work, what to do about accidental missed or double doses, and how to manage potential interactions with other prescriptions. Helping people come up with a schedule of how and when to take what is something we consider as much our job as filling and delivering the prescriptions themselves, and we’re proud of the role we’re able to play in removing friction and connecting consumers to better care.
We know that turning as many ears and lending as many voices as possible to these issues is important, and that’s why, in celebration of Mental Health Month this May, we’re dedicating our blog to profiles of some of the remarkable clinicians and organizations who are making a difference.
In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing insights from Allie Sharma, MD, the director of New York’s Mental Health Service Corps, a key initiative of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and Thrive NYC that’s been charged with placing over 400 mental health clinicians in high-need areas across the city. We’ll also take you inside New York Presbyterian’s Youth Anxiety Center, a unique collaboration between Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons to help identify and treat anxiety in New Yorkers age 16 to 28. Lastly, we visit the offices of Gauri Khurana, MD, Carly Snyder, MD, and lleana Benga, MD, three psychiatrists who are using expertise and compassionate care to improve the lives of their patients, one by one. All the while, we’ll be sharing stats, figures, and stories on our Instagram to help give shape and context to what mental health means for all of us in this city.
We hope you’ll tune in, and as ever, that you’ll feel free to share your thoughts and comments with us!
