Treatment, plain English.
Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
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Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Prolonged exposure is one of the two gold-standard treatments for PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder, the trauma-spectrum condition that follows certain…
May 27, 2025
Mood Disorders Treatment
"Mood disorder" is a category, not a diagnosis.
May 7, 2025
Why “Rock Bottom” Is Bullshit
Rock bottom is bullshit.
May 6, 2025
How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping
Most people who fire their psychiatrist wait about a year too long to do it.
Apr 25, 2025
Two Quotes That Changed How Clients Think
“If the problem can be solved, why worry?
Mar 26, 2025
Why Asking for Help Feels Like Weakness
For most of the guys who land in a psych office, the hardest thing they did in years wasn't the appointment. It was the phone call to book it.
Mar 24, 2025
AI Therapy Isn’t Therapy
The thing guys are calling AI therapy now is usually not Woebot, Wysa, or some mental health startup with a cute mascot and a CBT worksheet engine.
Mar 15, 2025
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