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

How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping

Most people who fire their psychiatrist or therapist wait about a year too long to do it. They sit through appointment after appointment, refilling something that isn’t quite…

Jan 27, 2026
Medications · 7 min read

Caplyta (Lumateperone)

Caplyta is the drug that came out in 2019 and made a bunch of psychiatrists raise an eyebrow at the receptor pharmacology, then raise both eyebrows at the…

Jan 25, 2026
Treatment · 7 min read

High Dose Ketamine – In Clinic

High-dose ketamine in clinic is a different animal from the troches you take at home. Same molecule, different dose, different route, and a completely different experience. At-home protocols…

Jan 22, 2026
Medications · 7 min read

Lurasidone (Latuda)

Lurasidone is the drug I keep reaching for when somebody walks in with bipolar depression and a body that’s already been wrecked by Seroquel. It’s an atypical antipsychotic,…

Jan 20, 2026
Wellness · 7 min read

Sexual Health

Men’s sexual health is one of those topics where the medicine is mostly straightforward and the conversation is mostly impossible. The biology is well-mapped. The drugs work. The…

Jan 18, 2026
Off Script · 7 min read

You’re Making a Choice Right Now (Even If It Doesn’t Feel Like It)

You’re making a choice right now. You’re choosing to read this sentence instead of closing the tab. You’re choosing to keep scrolling instead of doing the thing you…

Jan 14, 2026
Medications · 7 min read

Trazodone

Trazodone is the most prescribed sleep medication in the United States that was never actually approved as a sleep medication. Built as an antidepressant in the 1960s, came…

Jan 13, 2026
Conditions · 7 min read

Can’t Sleep Because Your Brain Won’t Shut Up? Here’s What’s Happening

It’s 2 AM. You have to be up in five hours. Your body is dead, your eyelids weigh nine pounds each, and your brain has decided right now…

Jan 12, 2026
Treatment · 7 min read

Why Asking for Help Feels Like Weakness (And What That’s Costing You)

For most of the guys who land in my office, the first appointment is the hardest thing they’ve done in years. Not the conversation. The phone call to…

Jan 9, 2026
Wellness · 7 min read

IV Athletic Recovery

IV recovery is one of those wellness products that works exactly well enough to keep selling itself. You walk in dehydrated, hungover, beat up from a long ride.…

Jan 9, 2026