Behavioral & Mental Health

Mental health struggles can make it hard to manage how you feel. If you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of mental illness, our team of skilled behavioral health specialists across our health system can provide the most current therapeutic approaches to diagnosing and treating psychiatric and substance use disorders.

When to Get Help

Mental health struggles such as depression or anxiety affect many people. This can make it harder to think, manage how you feel, and work with other people. Sometimes you may feel helpless and hopeless but know you're not alone. Talking with others who experience these problems may help. Treatment can help you feel better and learn about your recovery. Our team of experts can help direct you to the appropriate level of care to meet your individual needs.

Symptoms & Warning Signs Requiring Emergency Services

• Thoughts of harming yourself or someone else.
• Having a plan to take your own life or someone else’s life.
• Attempts at killing yourself (suicide) or someone else (homicide).

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, get help by going immediately to the nearest emergency department.

Symptoms & Warning Signs Requiring Primary Care or Counseling

• Feeling sad, empty, or tearful almost every day.
• Losing interest in or not getting pleasure from most daily activities you once enjoyed and feeling this way most days.
• Experiencing racing thoughts, loss of appetite, and or loss of sleep.

If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, call your primary care provider or health insurance for a referral to a mental health provider.

Comprehensive Mental Health Care

In partnership with Riverbend Community Mental Health and Lakes Region Mental Health, we provide mental health services in and outside the hospital setting. Riverbend offers services for children and adults that include medication management, individual counseling, and outpatient programs. Similarly, Lakes Region Mental Health Center provides integrated mental and physical health care to children, adults, elders, and their families who are living with – and recovering from – mental illness in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire.

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Do you struggle with severe depression? Are medications and therapy not helping? Talk to your doctor, as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment may be an option for you. Treatment involves a brief electrical stimulation to the brain while you're under anesthesia. Your individual needs determine treatment. On average, a course of treatment consists of eight to ten visits, three times a week. Electroconvulsive therapy is available at our Concord campus.

Substance Abuse Treatment

If you, or someone you know, has a substance use problem and is seeking substance abuse treatment, call 211 to be connected to the most appropriate level of care based on your individual needs.