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STATEMENT TO EMPLOYEES AND PATIENTS REGARDING COVID-19

Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees, partners and patients. Our clinic is 100 percent operational and we have prepared an operational plan to ensure we can maintain our service level, while ensuring the health and safety of all that interact with our clinic.

We closely monitor any developments regarding COVID-19 safety measures and will implement updates as needed.

- Hand Hygiene: Proper and frequent hand-washing is vital to help combat the spread of viruses.
- Ongoing Training: In addition to our regular training, we are completing enhanced COVID-19 awareness training as a team.
- Potential Exposure: Employees who exhibit COVID-19 symptoms, those who live with someone exhibiting symptoms, or anyone who has been exposed to the virus are mandated to not come to work.

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak we would like to extend our counseling and medication management services. We are currently offering TeleBehavioral Health Therapy services and Medication Management to anyone who is experiencing mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, stress, or otherwise including those caused as a result of recent events. If you or someone you know resides in any area of the State of Illinois and is in need of our services please reach out to our office at 908-291-2727 and get access to the help you need.

908-291-2727

jerseybehavioral@gmail.com
2333 Morris Ave, Ste C206, Union, NJ 07083

Monday - Friday 08:00 - 20:00

Saturday and Sunday - CLOSED

908-291-2727

jerseybehavioral@gmail.com

2333 Morris Ave, Ste C206

Union, NJ 07083

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Anger Management

Expressing Anger

Anger is a completely normal, usually healthy, human emotion. But when it gets out of control and expressed by violent behavior, it can be viewed by society as an immature or uncivilized emotional response. Constant angry feelings and anger acting outs canlead to the real problems: problems at work, in personal relationships, and in the overalllife’s quality. It even can affect physical well-being, causing sleep problems, nightmares, ulcers, headaches, high blood pressure etc.
The latest happens due to physiological and biological changes, accompanied emotional responses, like releasing stress hormone – cortisol or “energy” nerve messengers, like adrenaline and norepinephrine.
Anger can be caused by both external and internal events. It is possible to be angry at a specific person (such as a coworker, supervisor or significant other) or event (a traffic jam, a canceled flight), sometimes anger can be caused by excessive worrying about personal problems. Recollections of traumatic or enraging events can also trigger angry feelings.

A certain amount of anger is necessary for our survival, because it allows us to fight and defend ourselves. So it can be viewed as an adaptive response. However, the level of our anger limited by social norms, laws, by common sense and a s a result we are not lashing out on every person or event. Instead, we usually use a variety of conscious and unconscious processes to deal with angry feelings. There are three main approaches to deal with anger.

Expressing angry feelings in an assertive manner is the healthiest way to address anger. To do this, it is very important to understand own needs and how to get them met, without hurting others. Being assertive doesn’t mean being pushy or demanding; it means being respectful of yourself and others.
Suppressing anger, it is when it covered up or redirected. It happens when the anger is being hold in, anger thoughts stopped, and focus directed on something positive. The goal is to inhibit or suppress anger and change it into more constructive behavior. The danger in this type of response is that if it isn’t allowed outward expression, anger can turn inward. Anger turned inward may cause hypertension, high blood pressure, or depression.

Unexpressed anger can create other problems. It can lead to pathological expressions of anger, such as passive-aggressive behavior (getting back at people indirectly, without telling them why, rather than confronting them head-on) or a personality that seems to be cynical and hostile.

Such people are constantly putting others down, criticizing everything, and making cynical comments haven’t learned how to constructively express their anger. Not surprisingly, that they are less likely can build up successful relationships.
Calming down inside. This means not only controlling own outward behavior, but also controlling internal responses, taking steps to lower heart rate, calm self down, and let the feelings subside.

Psychologists dealing with anger management believe that when none of these three techniques work, that’s when someone or something going to get hurt.

I was quite literally standing on an edge, ready to jump off. And now I haven’t had a thought like that in weeks. I’m feeling a lot more like myself from my golden days. I’m, like, ready to start working on things again. It’s been really, really exciting. Having the energy to do that, just do things again.

- Becca - Depression, Anxiety, Suicidal, Acting, TMS

When you’re you’re stuck in these places of depression and PTSD and anxiety, it’s like, you’re not really living a life, you’re just trying to manage a life. And, you know, I feel like, for the first time in a really long time, I’m living a life.

- Christopher - PTSD, Anxiety, Depression, Veteran, Work, TMS, Ketamine

My parents didn’t realize what I had was depression, pretty serious depression too, for quite a long time. I came to serenity because I went to numerous doctors and tried numerous different medications for treating depression and anxiety with no luck… Like a month or two later (after starting TMS), I just felt fantastic.

- Mitchell - Depression, Anxiety, College, Ketamine, TMS