Patients
Everything we have written on Patients, in one place.
Off-label prescribing: what it means
A huge percentage of what psychiatrists prescribe is off-label, and most patients have no idea, which is its own problem.
Jun 25, 2025
Low T vs. Depression: What You Actually Need to Know
Guys come in convinced they have low T when they're actually depressed, and other guys come in convinced they're depressed when their testosterone is in…
Jun 25, 2025
Depression, Explained
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it's about. Depression doesn't, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world.
Jun 19, 2025
Why some clinicians won’t take insurance
I take insurance. A lot of psychiatrists in private practice don't.
Jun 17, 2025
PHP vs IOP vs Outpatient
These three terms get used like everybody knows what they mean and most patients don't, so they end up in the wrong level of care.
Jun 14, 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.
Jun 13, 2025
Psychiatric hospitalization: what to expect
Most people who get hospitalized for a psychiatric reason have never been inside one and have no idea what's about to happen, which makes a scary thing…
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.
Jun 12, 2025
The Story I’m Telling Myself Is…
Most people don't get taken out by facts first. They get taken out by what the facts start to mean. You send a text and don't hear back.
Jun 11, 2025
Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen.
Jun 9, 2025
CBT-I deep dive (beyond the mention)
CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, the structured-protocol kind that actually has a syllabus, not the talk-about-your-sleep-feelings kind)…
Jun 9, 2025Group Therapy: what actually happens in the room
Group therapy is the treatment I refer to most often and the one patients fight me hardest on. The fight is almost always the same: I don’t want…
Jun 4, 2025