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Narcissist diagnosis misused: clinical reality
The word narcissist has been so thoroughly hijacked by TikTok and pop psychology that you can't use it in a clinical conversation anymore without first…
May 1, 2025
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
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
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
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
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
Why Your Brain Won’t Shut Up at Night
It's 2 AM. You have to be up in five hours.
Mar 25, 2025
Suicidal Ideation, passive vs active
Passive suicidal ideation is the one that catches guys off guard, because it doesn't look like the thing they think they're supposed to be worried about.
Mar 7, 2025
Adjustment Disorder
Adjustment disorder is the diagnosis most underused in actual practice, which is funny because it's the diagnosis that probably fits half the people who…
Feb 27, 2025
Insomnia Disorder
Insomnia disorder is when you can't fall asleep, or can't stay asleep, or wake up too early and can't get back under, three or more nights a week for…
Feb 17, 2025
OCD
OCD is one of those diagnoses that got grabbed by pop culture and quietly butchered along the way.
Feb 14, 2025
Panic Disorder
Panic disorder isn't generalized anxiety.
Feb 11, 2025