Dr. Ragnar

Dr. Ragnar

Founder, DNP, PMHNP

Dr. Ragnar, DNP, PMHNP. Founder of LiveWell Psychiatry & Men's Health. Sees patients in Oregon and Washington for ADHD, depression, anxiety, addiction, and the long tail after sobriety. Anti-soft-validation, pro-actually-fixing-the-thing. Believes the goal of treatment isn't lifetime management, it's making himself unnecessary. Writes here for the guys who know there's something going on, but haven't figured out how to say it yet.

295 posts by this author · Practice site & full bio

Clinical profile

Credentials

  • DNP
  • PMHNP-BC
  • NPI 1780403915

Active licenses

  • Oregon 10034127
  • Washington AP61615356

Clinical focus

  • Psychiatry
  • Men's mental health
  • Men's health
  • ADHD
  • Adult ADHD
  • Depression
  • Mood disorders
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Anxiety
  • Panic disorder
  • OCD
  • PTSD
Terazosin: Sweaty Shirts and Slow Pee
Treatment · 7 min read

Terazosin: Sweaty Shirts and Slow Pee

If your ADHD medication helps but you’re changing shirts by lunch, bring up the sweating. Terazosin can enter that conversation, but adding another pill shouldn’t be the entire…

Nov 10, 2026
Your Teen’s Vape Doesn’t Run the House
Conditions · 5 min read

Your Teen’s Vape Doesn’t Run the House

Trying a vape or smoking weed doesn’t make your teen a terrible person. It doesn’t make the habit smart either. Parents can skip the horror movie speech, and…

Nov 5, 2026
Weed and Your Sex Life: The Honest Read
Men's Health · 5 min read

Weed and Your Sex Life: The Honest Read

Tell your clinician about weed when erections, desire or orgasm change. The research doesn’t let anybody honestly promise it’ll help or guarantee it isn’t part of the problem.…

Nov 2, 2026
Kegels: when they help and when they backfire
Men's Health · 5 min read

Kegels: when they help and when they backfire

More kegels aren’t automatically better. Sometimes the muscles giving you trouble need to relax. Pelvic floor training can help some guys get better erections, last longer or get…

Oct 31, 2026
OCD Treatment
Treatment · 6 min read

OCD Treatment

Treatment should help you get your day back from rituals and do the things you’ve been avoiding. Being able to explain OCD better doesn’t help much if it…

Oct 25, 2026
Panic Treatment
Treatment · 5 min read

Panic Treatment

Fewer panic attacks are good, but treatment also needs to help you go out again without planning your whole life around the next one. Panic disorder can improve…

Oct 23, 2026
SNRI Medications
Medications · 5 min read

SNRI Medications

SNRIs hit serotonin and norepinephrine, which can make them useful for depression, anxiety, pain, and fatigue, but the blood pressure and withdrawal conversations matter.

Oct 20, 2026
SSRI Medications
Medications · 5 min read

SSRI Medications

SSRIs are the boring workhorses of depression and anxiety treatment, useful for the right problems and annoying enough that the side effects need to be named up front.

Oct 15, 2026
Vilazodone (Viibryd)
Medications · 5 min read

Vilazodone (Viibryd)

Draft medication scaffold. Needs source pass before publish.

Oct 12, 2026
Spravato (esketamine) protocol
Medications · 5 min read

Spravato (esketamine) protocol

Spravato is FDA-approved esketamine, given as a nasal spray under direct supervision in a certified clinic.

Sep 26, 2026
The Depression That Looks Like Anger
Conditions · 5 min read

The Depression That Looks Like Anger

If you’ve started snapping at everyone, book an appointment and say what’s changed. Depression can be part of it, but it doesn’t excuse treating the people around you…

Sep 11, 2026
How Long Are You Actually Supposed to Be on This
Treatment · 6 min read

How Long Are You Actually Supposed to Be on This

Feeling better is a reason to review the prescription, not pick your own stopping date. Make the next decision with your history in front of you, and book…

Sep 10, 2026