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Weight gain and weight loss can both be significant concerns within psychiatric contexts. Whether resulting from emotional or psychological stress, medication side effects, or as part of an eating disorder, these issues require careful management from both mental health professionals and healthcare providers.
Our integrative approach combines evidence-based psychiatric evaluation, precision medication management, and when clinically indicated, GLP-1–based metabolic interventions. We address both psychiatric symptom burden and the neurobiological drivers of appetite, reward processing, and stress reactivity. Treatment plans incorporate behavioral strategies, nutritional guidance, sleep optimization, and lifestyle medicine to support sustainable symptom improvement and metabolic stabilization.
Medications such as Semaglutide and Tirzepatide can be thought of as a tool to help you while you explore the root causes of your weight gain.
Why Do I Need Semaglutide
Depression
Depression can lead to weight gain through multiple factors: Unhealthy coping mechanims, decreased energy levels, stress, serotonin deficiency, and some antidepressants
Mood Disorders
Mood disorders can cause changes to your eating habits which can include: overeating, craving high-calorie foods, food as a coping, and depression that can lead to inactivity.
Anxiety
Anxiety can lead to weight gain through multiple factors: cortisol, extra insulin, food preferences, ghrelin and medications.
Cortisol levels can cause fat to build up in the stomach and lead to weight gain.
Sleep Disruption
When you do not sleep consistently it can disrupt the balance of your hormones that regulate appetite by decreasing leptin the “satiety”hormone.
Sleep disturbances cause an increase in your “hunger hormone” ghrelin which can lead you to feeling more hungry and causing one to eat more calories than they can burn.
Stress
Increases weight and causes weight gain by increasing appetite and cravings for unhealthy foods that can trigger your body to store more fat.
Stress also triggers cortisol which can lead to weight gain.
Emotions
Feeling negative, shame and or guilt can cause one to binge eat, purge.
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Weight gain and weight loss can both be significant concerns within psychiatric contexts.
Whether resulting from emotional or psychological stress, medication side effects, or as part of an eating disorder, these issues require careful management from both mental health professionals and healthcare providers.
Treating underlying mental health issues is key to addressing related weight changes and ensuring holistic well-being.