
People walk in thinking something is fundamentally wrong with them all the time. They’re anxious, or depressed, or struggling, and they’ve decided that means they’re broken… defective, less…
Oct 8, 2025
Adult ADHD treatment is one of the parts of psychiatry where the gap between what works and what most patients actually get prescribed is genuinely wide. The medications…
Sep 18, 2025
If you’re reading this and wondering whether your drinking is a problem… it is. You wouldn’t be reading this otherwise. People without a problem don’t sit on the…
Sep 15, 2025
Testosterone is the most over-prescribed hormone in American medicine right now, and it’s not close. Walk into a strip-mall “low T clinic” with a pulse and a complaint…
Sep 12, 2025
The IV wellness industry is one of the strangest things to watch from inside medicine. A drip clinic opens in a strip mall next to a barre studio,…
Sep 12, 2025
Fluvoxamine is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the Zoloft/Lexapro/Prozac class) nobody thinks of first, and that’s sort of a shame, because for one specific job it’s still…
Sep 9, 2025
Hydroxyzine has been sitting in the pharmacy for sixty years doing useful work, and most prescribers act like it doesn’t exist. It’s an antihistamine in the same H1…
Sep 1, 2025
The version of ADHD that gets diagnosed in childhood is the loud version. Kid can’t sit still, kid is bouncing off the walls in second grade, kid gets…
Aug 28, 2025
Bipolar treatment goes wrong in the first appointment more often than in any later one. Get the diagnosis wrong and every prescription after it is wrong. And bipolar…
Aug 27, 2025
Wellbutrin is the weird cousin in the antidepressant family. Most of what people think of as antidepressants are SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, the Zoloft/Lexapro/Prozac class), and they…
Aug 27, 2025