Okla i Maya (WE ARE HERE): Recent Episodes
Choctaw Health Center
The Choctaw Health Center's Behavioral Health department talks on mental health topics and themes related to health and coping skills during times of uncertainty amidst the Coronavirus pandemic.
This podcast will discuss the topic - Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or "The Holiday
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"Blues", treatment, and ways to prevent and manage the symptoms.
This podcast will discuss the topic of mental illness awareness, types of mental illness, stigmas, opioid use, who it affects and types of treatment.
This podcast will focus on National Recovery Month, Addiction and recovery treatment options available for tribals members.
This podcast will discuss the topic of depression, the development of symptoms during times of isolation due to COVID-19, and creative ways to manage isolation and loneliness.
Anxiety is on the rise with coronavirus pandemic. Anxiety is the natural response to stress. It is common health problem affecting nearly 10 percent of us adults.
Suicide Awareness among medical workers, essential and frontline workers, teens, veterans, elderly, substance use and native Americans.
Grief is the natural reaction to loss. It is both a universal and a personal experience. Individual experiences of grief vary and are influenced by the nature of the loss
Like adults, children and teens may feel intense sadness and loss, or grief, when a person close to them dies. And like adults, children and teens express their grief in how they behave, what they think and say, and how they feel emotionally and physically. Each child grieves differently, and there is no right or wrong way or length of time to grieve.
Like so many healthcare professionals answering the call during this pandemic, Choctaw Behavioral Health is striving to help meet this needs in our Choctaw Tribal communities and beyond through a series podcasts on Grief and Bereavement. Grief has stricken us in a way that we could not have prepared for. Grief and Bereavement is challenging at any time, but during this pandemic when we have been challenged to isolate, it is even more difficult, but we want you to know “You Are Not Alone
." Social connections are still important
It’s well established that social support can be critical in helping move through grief, rather than getting stuck in it.
Many of us are grieving right now. We are grieving people we have lost, in many instances not having had the opportunity to say goodbye and most profoundly not being with them in their final moments. We are grieving not being able to have our in-person presence to support one another right now. We are grieving our rituals, our routines and what is familiar to us. Today's podcast will encourage the beginning of the healing process. The use of memories, rituals and routines will be highlighted as ways to honor and reflect on those earlier, better memories to remind ourselves of the full picture of the lives of our friends and loved ones and our connections.
The Choctaw Health Center's Behavioral Health department talks on mental health topics and themes related to health and coping skills during times of uncertainty amidst the Coronavirus pandemic.