Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
Treatment for anxiety is one of those areas where the public conversation and the clinical reality have drifted pretty far apart. People walk in expecting either a Xanax…
Mar 11, 2026Ketamine assisted therapy is what it sounds like. You take ketamine in a clinical setting, and you have a therapist actually present (or involved in close follow-up) to…
Mar 9, 2026
You already know something’s off. You’ve probably known for a while. Months, maybe. Possibly years. The sleep’s gone sideways, the temper’s shorter than it should be, you’re going…
Mar 9, 2026Depression doesn’t feel like sadness. Sadness has a shape and a target and it moves through you. Depression sits down on top of everything and shrinks the world…
Feb 27, 2026
Men in the US kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do. That number has been stable for decades. The pandemic didn’t really move it. The…
Feb 19, 2026Addiction is a hijacked reward system. The brain has a circuit that’s supposed to make you chase food, sex, novelty, connection, the things that kept the species going.…
Feb 19, 2026
The guys who think therapy is bullshit are not wrong about most of what they’ve been pitched. Their wife dragged them to a couples counselor who used words…
Feb 12, 2026“Mood disorder” is a category, not a diagnosis. Under that umbrella sit unipolar depression, bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation in kids, and…
Feb 11, 2026
There’s an idea floating around in addiction and depression circles that goes like this: people have to hit rock bottom before they’ll change. They have to lose the…
Feb 11, 2026Ketamine has been around since 1962, sitting quietly in operating rooms and battlefield medic kits, doing its job as an anesthetic. The depression piece is newer, and the…
Feb 7, 2026