This is the core of how I work with people, so we need to talk about it. The Naming Method is built on one principle. Call it what…
Mar 27, 2026Propranolol is a cardiology drug that wandered into psychiatry by accident and stayed because it does one specific thing well. It’s a non-selective beta blocker, developed for hypertension…
Mar 26, 2026Adderall is amphetamine. Specifically, it’s a roughly 3:1 mix of dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine salts, the same molecule that’s been around since the 1930s. The branding is newer than…
Mar 23, 2026Remeron is the antidepressant nobody picks first and a lot of people end up grateful for. The generic name is mirtazapine, it’s been around since the mid-90s, and…
Mar 17, 2026
When people hear “performance anxiety,” they think about sex. Specifically about a guy who can’t get hard with a new partner, or who finishes in ninety seconds and…
Mar 16, 2026Lunesta is the Z-drug that gets reached for when Ambien isn’t holding the night together. Same family, different shape, slightly longer half-life. It binds the same GABA-A receptor…
Mar 15, 2026PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong. Most memories get filed away, lose their sharp edges, and when you pull them back out years…
Mar 14, 2026Treatment for anxiety is one of those areas where the public conversation and the clinical reality have drifted pretty far apart. People walk in expecting either a Xanax…
Mar 11, 2026An IV skin-and-beauty drip is, almost without exception, a bag of saline with some combination of vitamin C, B vitamins, biotin, and (depending on the clinic) glutathione or…
Mar 11, 2026Ketamine assisted therapy is what it sounds like. You take ketamine in a clinical setting, and you have a therapist actually present (or involved in close follow-up) to…
Mar 9, 2026