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.

282 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

Education

Verified profiles

How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping
Treatment · 9 min read

How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping

Most people who fire their psychiatrist wait about a year too long to do it.

Apr 25, 2025
Caplyta (Lumateperone)
Medications · 9 min read

Caplyta (Lumateperone)

Caplyta is the antipsychotic that came out in 2019 and made a bunch of psychiatrists do a double-take at the receptor pharmacology, then another…

Apr 23, 2025
Post-COVID brain fog as a diagnostic entity
Conditions · 11 min read

Post-COVID brain fog as a diagnostic entity

Post-COVID brain fog is real and we still don't have a clean blood test for it, which means most of what gets done with these patients is ruling out the…

Apr 23, 2025
High Dose Ketamine In Clinic
Treatment · 9 min read

High Dose Ketamine In Clinic

High-dose ketamine done in a clinic is a different animal from the troches you take at home.

Apr 22, 2025
Adult ADHD diagnostic surge
Conditions · 10 min read

Adult ADHD diagnostic surge

The number of adults walking into psychiatric offices in 2026 asking to be evaluated for ADHD is something nobody saw coming on this scale.

Apr 20, 2025
Stimulants and cardiovascular safety in adults
Conditions · 8 min read

Stimulants and cardiovascular safety in adults

For decades the conversation about stimulant cardiovascular risk was muddled, with primary care doctors being more cautious than the data warranted and psychiatrists being maybe a little too…

Apr 18, 2025
Lurasidone (Latuda)
Medications · 10 min read

Lurasidone (Latuda)

Lurasidone is the drug you reach for when somebody walks in with bipolar depression and a body that's already been wrecked by Seroquel.

Apr 16, 2025
Gabapentin
Medications · 8 min read

Gabapentin

Gabapentin is the drug American psychiatry is in a quiet relationship with that nobody really wants to talk about publicly. It's prescribed constantly.

Apr 15, 2025
Clonidine
Medications · 8 min read

Clonidine

Clonidine is a blood pressure medication from the 1970s that turned out to be useful for half a dozen things it was never designed for.

Apr 13, 2025
Strattera (atomoxetine)
Medications · 8 min read

Strattera (atomoxetine)

Strattera is the non-stimulant ADHD medication that most adults don’t think about until they have to, which is usually because stimulants are off the table for some reason.…

Apr 10, 2025
Buspar (buspirone)
Medications · 9 min read

Buspar (buspirone)

Buspar is the anti-anxiety drug I wish more people had heard of, mostly because it’s the answer to a lot of situations where the patient or the prescriber…

Apr 7, 2025
Paxil (paroxetine)
Medications · 9 min read

Paxil (paroxetine)

Paxil is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class) I almost never start a new patient on, and the…

Apr 5, 2025