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
Seroquel (quetiapine)
Medications · 8 min read

Seroquel (quetiapine)

Seroquel is the antipsychotic that gets prescribed for everything other than what it's actually approved for, and the off-label sleep use is the biggest…

Mar 24, 2026
Statins
Medications · 6 min read

Statins

Statins cut events when the risk is real. The decision should come from your risk numbers and the side effects you can actually live with, not vibes.

Mar 24, 2026
Microdosing: what controlled trials actually show
Treatment · 8 min read

Microdosing: what controlled trials actually show

The honest answer on microdosing is that the controlled trials don't show much, the open-label data shows a lot, and the difference between those two…

Mar 22, 2026
Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk
Off Script · 5 min read

Ibogaine: Real Promise, Real Risk

Ibogaine might be the strangest substance in the whole psychedelic treatment conversation, because the promise is real and the risk is real and they sit…

Mar 21, 2026
Online ADHD clinics & the regulatory crackdown
Treatment · 8 min read

Online ADHD clinics & the regulatory crackdown

Done and Cerebral are the two names everybody remembers from the great pandemic ADHD telehealth boom, and the story of what happened to them is most of…

Mar 20, 2026
Ayahuasca for Depression: Promising, Strange, and Still Early
Off Script · 5 min read

Ayahuasca for Depression: Promising, Strange, and Still Early

Ayahuasca has a real but early depression signal. The hard part is separating clinical research from retreat hype and real safety risk.

Mar 18, 2026
Dextromethorphan for Depression: The Legal, Overlooked One
Off Script · 5 min read

Dextromethorphan for Depression: The Legal, Overlooked One

Dextromethorphan’s the weird one in this whole conversation because unlike MDMA or psilocybin or ayahuasca, it isn’t hiding behind a Schedule I wall. It’s been sitting on pharmacy…

Mar 16, 2026
TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
Treatment · 9 min read

TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)

TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation, an in-office procedure where a magnetic coil sits against the side of your head and pulses a magnetic field into a…

Mar 16, 2026
EMDR
Treatment · 9 min read

EMDR

EMDR stands for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, which is a mouthful and also kind of misleading because the eye movements may not actually…

Mar 14, 2026
Is my penis normal?
Men's Health · 7 min read

Is my penis normal?

Most guys who worry they're too small aren't actually too small, they're comparing themselves to porn, bad angles, lies, memory, locker room mythology,…

Mar 13, 2026
Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone)
Medications · 10 min read

Suboxone (buprenorphine/naloxone)

Suboxone is the closest thing we have to a miracle drug in psychiatry, and most of the people who need it spent years being talked out of taking it by…

Mar 12, 2026
Kegels: when they help and when they backfire
Men's Health · 5 min read

Kegels: when they help and when they backfire

A lot of men hear pelvic floor and immediately think kegels, which is how this whole topic gets dumbed down fast, because the pelvic floor is a real…

Mar 11, 2026