The Eden Center for Integrative Care

10/11/2026

Proud to support the Bulldogs Pop Warner football team this year!!

09/30/2026

There is no version of the oath any of us took that ends with the words "unless it requires paperwork."
In a discussion about a new treatment with remarkable efficacy, the physician across from me acknowledged the difference it could make for his patients. Then he told me he will not write any medication that requires a prior authorization.
None of them.
I asked him whether, knowing there were better options for his patients, he still chose the path of least resistance. He said yes.
I heard a version of the same thing twice this week, in two states, in two very different practices.
Here is what I want us to sit with.
The person on the other side of that decision came to us on their worst day. Not the first day. The worst one.
They were not thinking about prior authorization. In that state you are not thinking past the hour you are in. You cannot picture yourself at the weekend. Your phone is too heavy to answer a text. Getting to the appointment at all cost them something most people will never have to spend.
They put their hand up.
And the answer they got, though nobody said it out loud, was that the paperwork was heavier than their suffering.
I understand the fatigue. Prior authorization is demoralizing and it was built that way deliberately, by people whose margins improve every time a clinician gives up. That is the design. It works.
It only works because we cooperate with it.
When we decide in advance never to pursue anything that requires that form, the form is no longer an obstacle. The form is the prescriber. We have handed an insurance company the pen and told ourselves we had no choice.
We had a choice. We make it every day.
Two things have to change.
Insurers cannot keep being allowed to put profit above people, or to engineer friction they know converts into untreated illness and worse. That is a policy failure, and it needs legislators willing to say so.
And we cannot let an administrative burden erode the one thing that makes us clinicians.
We are who people call when the night is at its darkest.
I know how that sounds. We have repeated it so often it has gone soft, and it has become something we say rather than something we mean. But it was never supposed to be a line in a talk. It was supposed to be the reason any of us chose this work. It is supposed to be what gets us out of bed.
We all know what the su***de rate looks like in this population. We say it from podiums.
And then we decline to fill out a form.
Sometimes advocating for a patient is a phone call. Sometimes it is twenty minutes and a fax machine.
And sometimes the most important thing we do all day is refuse to let an insurance company make a decision that belongs to us.

09/29/2026

We’re excited to be out in the community with our Glens Falls families!

The Eden Center for Integrative Care will be represented at all Glens Falls City School District open houses this year.

Our team is currently providing services within Kensington Road Elementary School, Big Cross Street School, and Glens Falls Middle School, helping make behavioral and mental health support more accessible to students and families right where they already are.

If you see the Eden Care table at your child’s open house, please stop by, say hello, meet our team, and learn more about the services available.

Services provided through The Eden Center are billed through insurance when applicable, allowing us to work alongside the school district while remaining a community healthcare provider.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to be part of the Glens Falls school community and look forward to meeting more of our local families throughout the year.

Come say hi when you see us!

09/15/2026

Dan and Chloe are attending Psych Congress 2026, staying current on the latest and greatest in the field of psychiatry. We’re excited to see what the week holds in terms of advancements in medication and psychotherapy options so that we can bring them back and offer them to our patients locally!

09/11/2026

Today is September 11th.

I was in college when the attacks happened. What I saw that day, and what I saw afterward, will sit with me forever.

The anger. The loss. The sorrow. The fear of the unknown.

But something else came out of it.

A country unified.

For a brief period, people were not divided by petty differences. Political identity became less important. Social status became less important. The things that seemed so important on September 10th suddenly seemed very small.

On September 12th, we were one nation. One people.

People looked at a leader who was not overly popular on September 10th and nearly universally came to their feet with resounding support when he said, “I hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”

That was a cry for war and vengeance, but it was also something deeper.

It was a country finding its people again.

I have thought about that a lot over the years.

Why do we always seem to return to September 10th instead of staying September 12th?

The conclusion I keep coming back to is that fear can unite people very quickly.

But fear cannot sustain a society.

Connection can.

We have seen this before.

After Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, fear, grief, and a direct threat to the nation brought Americans together with an extraordinary sense of common purpose. People mobilized around something larger than themselves because survival, freedom, and national identity suddenly mattered more than the divisions that existed the day before.

September 11th did something similar.

It reminded us, however painfully, that when fear strips everything else away, we remember who our people are.

As wealth accumulated, technology advanced, political division increased, and the pressure to keep up with everybody else grew, we moved further away from the true sense of community that human beings have depended on for thousands of years.

I have traveled extensively around the world, and some of the happiest people I have encountered have had far less materially than we do.

But poverty itself was not the common denominator.

Community was.

In parts of Italy, you still see men and women sitting together at night, playing cards, eating, talking, laughing, and actually knowing the people around them.

Nobody is staring at a screen pretending to be somewhere else.

They are there.

Present.

Interested in one another.

I saw this firsthand when I visited Sicily.

In some of these small communities, abandoned homes have been sold for almost nothing, and people from different places have moved in and begun rebuilding not only the homes, but the communities themselves.

What struck me was not the houses.

It was what happened between the people.

They began knowing one another.

Helping one another.

Eating together.

Talking.

Looking after the community because they had become part of it.

That is what I think we have lost.

We have more ways to communicate than at any other point in human history, yet many people feel less connected than ever.

Technology gave us access to everyone and somehow distracted us from the person sitting next to us.

We live in a culture of the next best thing.

The next house.

The next car.

The next vacation.

The next achievement.

The next body we are supposed to look like.

The next life we are supposed to envy.

We spend enormous amounts of time looking at the curated lives of people we do not know while knowing very little about what the person living three houses away is going through.

We know what strangers ate for dinner.

We know where celebrities went on vacation.

We know what someone we have not seen since high school thinks about politics.

But sometimes we do not know that our neighbor is struggling.

That their spouse is sick.

That their child is having a difficult time.

That they are lonely.

That they simply need somebody to ask how they are doing.

We in America have done so well that the pressure to keep up with the status quo may have overtaken one of our most basic human needs.

Connection.

We need one another.

And I think one of the most important lessons of September 11th is that when fear strips everything else away, we remember that.

When our basic survival is questioned, our brains retreat to the group.

On September 11th, that group became America.

Suddenly the things that divided us mattered less than the thing that connected us.

We were Americans.

Together.

But why should fear be required to remind us of that?

Why should tragedy be the thing that makes us notice our neighbors again?

Why should we need an enemy before we remember that we are on the same side?

This is not really a history post.

It is a history of us post.

And maybe it is also a warning.

A great nation cannot survive indefinitely if its people can only find commonality when they are afraid.

Fear can unite us.

Connection can empower us.

Community can sustain us.

And rebuilding that does not start in Washington.

It starts much closer to home.

Talk to your neighbor.

Sit with people.

Eat together.

Play cards.

Join something in your community.

Put the phone down.

Ask somebody how they are doing and actually listen to the answer.

Go somewhere social even when you do not feel like going.

Help someone who cannot do anything for you in return.

Human beings are biologically social creatures.

Sometimes the best antidepressant can be an act of kindness, a thoughtful gesture, or a selfless act.

On this September 11th, we remember.

We should.

But we cannot change what happened.

The only useful reason to keep looking into the past is to learn something that changes what we do next.

What September 11th taught us is that we are extraordinarily powerful when we are together.

The question is whether we can learn to become that people without first having to be afraid.

Those of us who remember September 12th remember what that felt like.

We long for it.

But maybe the goal should not be to recreate September 12th.

Maybe the goal should be to build something even better.

A country that does not need tragedy to remember that we belong to one another.

And perhaps it starts with something remarkably simple.

Look to your left.

Look to your right.

There is another human being there.

Say hello.

Daniel Breeyear MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, FMHC
Owner/Director of care
The Eden Center for Integrative Care 

09/04/2026

This week I have had a disproportionate number of calls and referrals from my OB/GYN colleagues regarding postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis.

The questions are almost always the same three:

How do you know?

How fast can it happen?

What is the best treatment approach?

Here is what I actually do.

Every pregnant patient I identify as being at elevated psychiatric risk comes into my office before delivery, and she does not come alone.

I want her partner, her mother, or whoever is going to be in a meaningful caregiving role once the baby arrives.

I educate all of them on the early signs of postpartum depression, postpartum mania, and postpartum psychosis.

Not just the mother.

The people who will be watching her.

That partner education is one of the most important parts of the entire process, and one of the parts I see missed most often.

Social withdrawal.

Difficulty bonding.

Emotional flatness.

Irritability.

Behavior that simply seems unlike her.

Families can misinterpret those things as rejection, indifference, ingratitude, or failure.

Sometimes they respond by pushing harder.

“You should be happy.”

“Why aren’t you enjoying this?”

“You need to bond with the baby.”

Shame then enters the picture at exactly the point when disclosure matters most.

Those are not character failures.

They may be early warning signs.

The correct response is not to correct her.

It is to call the clinician.

If depressive symptoms begin during the third trimester and she meets treatment criteria, I also begin thinking about authorization before delivery. Zuranolone criteria commonly include onset during the third trimester or within four weeks postpartum.

I would much rather deal with an insurance company while a patient is stable than start fighting for access while she is acutely ill.

Then there is postpartum psychosis.

People hear “abrupt onset” and assume it means there was no warning.

Those are not the same thing.

Early changes can include insomnia, restlessness, irritability, mood fluctuation, agitation, unusual behavior, and sometimes confusion.

The syndrome can then escalate very quickly.

And in a substantial portion of first-onset cases, the postpartum psychotic episode is also the first recognized presentation of bipolar disorder.

No prior diagnosis.

Sometimes no obvious family history.

Nothing on a routine risk screen that would have told you exactly what was coming.

Which is why observation matters so much.

One of the highest-yield questions I ask is incredibly simple:

When the baby sleeps, can she sleep?

I ask her.

And when possible, I ask her partner separately.

There is a major clinical difference between:

“She is exhausted and wants to sleep, but the baby keeps waking her.”

and:

“The baby is sleeping, but she is not.”

Or:

“She has slept three hours in two days and says she does not feel tired.”

Sleep deprivation is expected with a newborn.

Reduced need for sleep is not.

And reduced need for sleep is often noticed by somebody else before the patient recognizes it as a symptom.

That question costs nothing.

It may also buy you the most valuable thing in postpartum psychiatry:

time.

In Part 2, I am going to explain why the postpartum period is such a uniquely vulnerable neurobiological window: what happens to progesterone, allopregnanolone, estrogen, GABA-A signaling, glutamate, prolactin, the reproductive axis, sleep, thyroid function, iron status, and why those changes matter clinically.

08/25/2026

WE’RE HIRING: RNs & LPNs
Washington County Correctional Facility

The Eden Center for Integrative Care is expanding our correctional healthcare team, and we’re looking for **Registered Nurses (RNs) and Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)** who want to work in a unique, team-oriented clinical environment.

Positions Available:
• Full-Time
• Part-Time
• Day Shifts
• Evening Shifts
• Weekend shifts available

Correctional nursing offers an opportunity to use your clinical skills in a setting where nurses play a critical role in providing direct patient care, managing chronic and acute medical needs, and working alongside an integrated medical and behavioral health team.

We’re looking for nurses who are **dependable, confident, compassionate, and comfortable working independently while being part of a strong clinical team.**

Washington County Correctional Facility – Fort Edward, NY

Interested? Call 518-636-5284 to learn more or apply.

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Come be part of a team that is changing what healthcare can look like inside a correctional setting.

Integrative mental health & wellness care focused on finding the root cause. Offering therapy, medication management, functional medicine, hormone support, neurofeedback, red light therapy & more in Glens Falls & Saratoga Springs, NY

08/10/2026

There is no one-size-fits-all in mental health.

Two people can come in with the same diagnosis and need very different care. Your biology, your history, your sleep, your stress, even how your body processes medication, are yours alone. A plan that ignores that is a plan built for an average person, not for you.

At Eden Care, we build the plan around the individual. We take the time to understand your full picture and match care to the person in front of us, not just the label on the chart.

If you want care that actually fits you, visit theedencarecenter.com or call (518) 636-5284.

08/07/2026

When sleep goes, so much else tends to follow.

Sleep is one of the most powerful and most overlooked parts of mental health. It shapes mood, focus, energy, and how well we handle stress. When sleep is disrupted, anxiety, low mood, and trouble concentrating often follow close behind, and it can be hard to know which came first.

That is why a thoughtful evaluation looks at sleep early, not as an afterthought. At Eden Care, we consider sleep alongside the rest of your health, because caring for the whole person means caring for the foundation.

If sleep has been hard lately, it may be worth a closer look. Visit theedencarecenter.com or call (518) 636-5284.

08/06/2026

Two people can carry the same diagnosis and still need very different care.
That is because a diagnosis names a pattern. It does not explain why the pattern is there. Sleep, nutrition, hormones, stress, physical health, relationships, and biology all shape how a person feels and functions, and they look different in every life. When care only asks which medication matches the label, it can miss most of the story.
At Eden Care, we take the time to understand the full picture. We combine thoughtful psychiatric care with therapy and selected integrative services, and we build the plan around the person in front of us, not the diagnosis on the chart.
If you want care that starts with your whole story, visit theedencarecenter.com or call (518) 636-5284.