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

Education

Verified profiles

The Real Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging
Off Script · 10 min read

The Real Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging

People sabotage themselves constantly and they can't tell you why. Get within sight of something working out and they blow it up.

Apr 30, 2025
Sleep apnea + depression in middle-aged men
Conditions · 9 min read

Sleep apnea + depression in middle-aged men

If you’re a guy in your forties or fifties who feels depressed, exhausted, foggy, and irritable, and the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the most common antidepressant class,…

Apr 28, 2025
Melatonin
Medications · 9 min read

Melatonin

Melatonin is one of the most misunderstood things sold in a drugstore, and the misunderstanding got there with help from the supplement industry, the…

Apr 26, 2025
Cannabis-induced psychosis (2025 evidence)
Conditions · 9 min read

Cannabis-induced psychosis (2025 evidence)

The data on cannabis and psychosis is no longer ambiguous, and saying so out loud is going to lose some readers in the first paragraph.

Apr 26, 2025
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 · 10 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
Adult ADHD diagnostic surge
Conditions · 9 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 · 9 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