Freedom Costs Blood. Mental Health Costs Choices.
Freedom isn’t free. Neither is good mental health. There is no doubt I will never come close to understanding the sacrifice that members of our military have made…
Jun 12, 2025
Zoloft
Zoloft is the drug I prescribe more than anything else, and the one patients ask the most questions about before they’re willing to swallow the first pill. Sertraline…
Jun 12, 2025
ADHD in Adults Isn’t About Being Hyper
Most people picture ADHD as a kid bouncing off the walls, can’t sit still, disruptive in class. That’s one version of it, mostly in children. By the time…
Jun 12, 2025
The Story I’m Telling Myself Is…
One of the most powerful ideas that comes up again and again in therapy, and one that Dr. John returns to often on his podcast “The Dr. John…
Jun 11, 2025
Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen. The generic name is vortioxetine, marketed under Trintellix in the US and Brintellix everywhere else,…
Jun 9, 2025
Expectations Hurt Us More Than People Do
Most emotional pain doesn’t come from what someone actually does to us. It comes from what we quietly expected them to do but just didn’t say out loud.…
Jun 8, 2025
Why Men Don’t Go to Therapy (And Why That’s Killing Them)
Men kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do in the US, that number’s been stable for decades, the pandemic didn’t move it, the recession didn’t…
Jun 7, 2025
Addiction Treatment
Addiction is what happens when the brain’s reward wiring gets hijacked. There’s a circuit that’s supposed to push you toward food, sex, novelty, your kid’s face, the things…
May 31, 2025
Hair loss: what works, what is hype
Finasteride, dutasteride, minoxidil, PRP, microneedling, transplants. The math of male pattern hair loss, the meds that bend it, and the things sold to you that mostly do not.
May 29, 2025
Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine)
Pristiq is what happens when you take Effexor, skip a metabolic step, and sell it as a new drug. That’s not a dig, that’s the actual mechanism. Venlafaxine…
May 27, 2025