Patients
Everything we have written on Patients, in one place.
Adderall
Adderall is amphetamine.
Jul 29, 2025How to Actually Access Your Mental Health Benefits
Insurance companies in this country have figured out a quietly profitable trick. They sell you a plan that technically includes mental health coverage, they staff a member-services line…
Jul 29, 2025
Remeron
Remeron is the antidepressant nobody picks first and a lot of guys end up grateful for.
Jul 29, 2025
Performance Anxiety Isn’t Just About Sex
Performance anxiety doesn't show up the way the name suggests it does.
Jul 26, 2025
What Every Insurance Term Actually Means (And Which Ones Matter)
Insurance companies don't write their paperwork to be understood. They write it to be unfalsifiable, which is a different problem.
Jul 26, 2025
How Health Insurance Actually Works
Health insurance is confusing on purpose.
Jul 24, 2025
Lunesta
Lunesta is the Z-drug you reach for when Ambien isn't holding the night together. Same family, different shape, slightly longer half-life.
Jul 23, 2025
PTSD, Explained
PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong.
Jul 19, 2025
Stimulants Help Most People Focus. That Isn’t an ADHD Test.
The single most common ADHD diagnostic story I hear in the room goes like this...
Jul 13, 2025
Anxiety, Explained
The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it's possible for two conversations on the…
Jul 7, 2025
PCP-psychiatrist handoff: when to switch
A lot of the psychiatric medication in this country is prescribed by primary care doctors, not psychiatrists.
Jun 30, 2025
Mental health records: background checks, gun ownership, licensure
This is one of the questions that comes up in the first appointment most often, particularly from guys who own firearms or work in jobs with security…
Jun 27, 2025