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. 23 treatments and drug classes, each linking to everything we have written on it.
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…
Jun 25, 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.
Jun 10, 2026
MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment)
If you have opioid use disorder, medication is the actual treatment.
Jun 2, 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
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
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
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
Therapy for Men Who Think Therapy Is Bullshit
The guys who think therapy is bullshit aren't wrong about most of what they've been pitched.
Nov 15, 2025
What “Trauma-Informed Care” Actually Means
Trauma informed care is the most successful piece of mental health branding of the last decade, and for a crowd that never shuts up about how…
Nov 12, 2025