Dr. Ragnar
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
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
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
Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen.
Jun 9, 2025
Why Men Avoid Therapy
Men kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do in the US, that gap has held year after year, the pandemic didn't close it, the recession…
Jun 7, 2025
Addiction, Explained
Addiction is what happens when the brain's reward wiring gets dragged hard in one direction.
May 31, 2025
Hair loss: what works, what’s hype
Finasteride, dutasteride, minoxidil, PRP, microneedling, transplants. The math of male pattern hair loss, the meds that bend it, and the things sold to you that mostly don't.
May 29, 2025
Pristiq (Desvenlafaxine)
Pristiq is what happens when you take Effexor, skip a metabolic step, and sell it as a new drug. That's not a dig, that's the actual mechanism.
May 27, 2025
Self-Harm in Adult Men
Self-harm in adult men is a thing we don’t talk about much, because the cultural picture of self-harm is a teenage girl with a razor and her arms,…
May 24, 2025
Body Dysmorphic Disorder in men
Body dysmorphic disorder in men is more common than most clinicians catch, and it shows up differently from how the textbook describes it because the…
May 22, 2025
The Difference Between Depression and Just Being Sad
Not every bad day is depression and not every hard week means you need medication.
May 21, 2025