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.
988 and the gap between calling and getting help
988 is better than 911 used to be for a mental health crisis, which is a low bar and a real improvement at the same time. It’s a…
Mar 10, 2025
Why Your Therapist Can’t Fix You
Your therapist can't fix you, and that's actually the news the whole industry is trying not to lead with. Guys come into therapy wanting to be fixed...
Mar 3, 2025
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT (dialectical behavior therapy, the skills-and-group approach that came out of Marsha Linehan's lab in the 1980s) got invented to treat patients with…
Feb 6, 2025
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy, the structured worksheet-and-homework kind, not the talk-about-your-mother kind) is the therapy with the most evidence…
Feb 4, 2025