Treatment, plain English.
Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
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Jump straight to the approach you want, instead of scrolling. 27 treatments and drug classes, each linking to everything we have written on it.
MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment)
If you have opioid use disorder, medication is the actual treatment.
Apr 26, 2026
Involuntary holds: OR/WA specifics
Oregon and Washington don't use the California 5150/5250 numbering, which confuses people who moved up here from the Bay Area expecting that vocabulary.
Apr 24, 2026
ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy)
ECT (electroconvulsive therapy, the one with the bad PR from the Jack Nicholson movie) works better than any antidepressant we have, and almost nobody who…
Apr 22, 2026
Pharmacogenomic testing for psych meds
GeneSight and the other pharmacogenomic tests (cheek-swab panels that look at your liver-enzyme genetics to suggest which psych medications you'll handle…
Apr 12, 2026
Insomnia Treatment
Insomnia treatment is where people learn the hard way that exhaustion and sleep aren't the same thing.
Apr 6, 2026
Social Anxiety Treatment
A practical guide to social anxiety treatment: CBT, exposure, medication, safety behaviors, and how recovery actually gets built.
Apr 3, 2026
Panic Treatment
A practical guide to treating panic disorder with CBT, interoceptive exposure, medication, and fewer rescue rituals.
Apr 1, 2026
OCD Treatment
A practical guide to OCD treatment, exposure and response prevention, medication, reassurance traps, and when to get specialty care.
Mar 29, 2026
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
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
Ketamine clinics: legit vs sketchy
The ketamine clinic boom of the last five years is two different things wearing one storefront.
Mar 18, 2026
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