Patients
Everything we have written on Patients, in one place.
Cannabis-induced psychosis (2025 evidence)
The data on cannabis and psychosis is no longer ambiguous, and saying so out loud is going to lose some readers in the first paragraph.
Apr 26, 2025
How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping
Most people who fire their psychiatrist wait about a year too long to do it.
Apr 25, 2025
Caplyta (Lumateperone)
Caplyta is the antipsychotic that came out in 2019 and made a bunch of psychiatrists do a double-take at the receptor pharmacology, then another…
Apr 23, 2025
Post-COVID brain fog as a diagnostic entity
Post-COVID brain fog is real and we still don't have a clean blood test for it, which means most of what gets done with these patients is ruling out the…
Apr 23, 2025
Adult ADHD diagnostic surge
The number of adults walking into psychiatric offices in 2026 asking to be evaluated for ADHD is something nobody saw coming on this scale.
Apr 20, 2025
Stimulants and cardiovascular safety in adults
For decades the conversation about stimulant cardiovascular risk was muddled, with primary care doctors being more cautious than the data warranted and psychiatrists being maybe a little too…
Apr 18, 2025
Lurasidone (Latuda)
Lurasidone is the drug you reach for when somebody walks in with bipolar depression and a body that's already been wrecked by Seroquel.
Apr 16, 2025
Gabapentin
Gabapentin is the drug American psychiatry is in a quiet relationship with that nobody really wants to talk about publicly. It's prescribed constantly.
Apr 15, 2025
Clonidine
Clonidine is a blood pressure medication from the 1970s that turned out to be useful for half a dozen things it was never designed for.
Apr 13, 2025
Strattera (atomoxetine)
Strattera is the non-stimulant ADHD medication that most adults don’t think about until they have to, which is usually because stimulants are off the table for some reason.…
Apr 10, 2025
Buspar (buspirone)
Buspar is the anti-anxiety drug I wish more people had heard of, mostly because it’s the answer to a lot of situations where the patient or the prescriber…
Apr 7, 2025
Paxil (paroxetine)
Paxil is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class) I almost never start a new patient on, and the…
Apr 5, 2025