Dr. Ragnar

Dr. Ragnar

Founder, DNP, PMHNP

Dr. Ragnar, DNP, PMHNP. Founder of LiveWell Psychiatry & Men's Health. Sees patients 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.

73 posts by this author · Full LiveWell bio

Treatment · 7 min read

Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible

You already know something’s off. You’ve probably known for a while. Months, maybe. Possibly years. The sleep’s gone sideways, the temper’s shorter than it should be, you’re going…

Mar 9, 2026
Conditions · 7 min read

Low T vs. Depression: What You Actually Need to Know

Guys come in convinced they have low T when they’re depressed. Other guys come in convinced they’re depressed when their testosterone is in the basement. The two conditions…

Mar 2, 2026
Treatment · 8 min read

Depression Treatment

Depression doesn’t feel like sadness. Sadness has a shape and a target and it moves through you. Depression sits down on top of everything and shrinks the world…

Feb 27, 2026
Medications · 7 min read

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. Sertraline…

Feb 24, 2026
Conditions · 7 min read

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 presentation, mostly in children. By the time those kids…

Feb 22, 2026
Medications · 8 min read

Trintellix (Vortioxetine)

Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen. Vortioxetine, marketed under Trintellix in the US and Brintellix everywhere else, hit the market in…

Feb 21, 2026
Treatment · 7 min read

Why Men Don’t Go to Therapy (And Why That’s Killing Them)

Men in the US kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do. That number has been stable for decades. The pandemic didn’t really move it. The…

Feb 19, 2026
Treatment · 7 min read

Addiction Treatment

Addiction is a hijacked reward system. The brain has a circuit that’s supposed to make you chase food, sex, novelty, connection, the things that kept the species going.…

Feb 19, 2026
Wellness · 7 min read

Hair Loss

Hair loss is one of those things men don’t bring up first. They come in for testosterone questions or sleep or low mood, and somewhere in the second…

Feb 19, 2026
Medications · 6 min read

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. It’s the actual mechanism. Venlafaxine…

Feb 16, 2026