Josie Desmarais, PMHNP-BC

Court-Ordered Psychiatric how much psychiatric evaluations cost: What It Is and What It Costs A court-ordered psychiatric evaluation is a formal mental health assessment required or requested by a judge as part of a legal proceeding. Costs typically range from $500 to $2,500 or more depending on the type and complexity of the evaluation. Getting … Read more

How to Lose Weight With ADHD Adults with ADHD lose weight on the same biological terms as everyone else — sustained calorie deficit, adequate protein, sufficient sleep, regular movement. The reason it usually fails is not biology. It is that nearly every conventional weight-loss approach depends on executive functions the ADHD brain does not have … Read more

Can a Head Injury Cause ADHD? The honest answer is more nuanced than yes or no. After a traumatic brain injury, somewhere between 30% and 50% of adult patients develop ADHD-like symptoms — inattention, distractibility, impulsivity, working memory deficits, and emotional dysregulation. Whether that constitutes ADHD as defined in the DSM-5-TR is still actively debated … Read more

Does ADHD Cause Anger Issues? Yes — ADHD causes anger issues in a clinically specific way, and the mechanism is emotional dysregulation rooted in head injuries affecting the prefrontal cortex dysfunction. If you already know you have ADHD and the question keeping you up is “why am I this angry, this forgetful, this stuck in … Read more

ADHD and Depression: When You Have Both at the Same Time Roughly 30% of adults with undiagnosed ADHD with ADHD also meet criteria for major depressive disorder, and the overlap is not coincidence. ADHD increases depression risk through years of chronic underachievement, executive function fatigue, social rejection, and relentless self-criticism. Treatment that addresses only one … Read more