Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Articles in this topic explain how Generalized Anxiety Disorder can affect mood, focus, sleep, relationships, medication decisions, and day-to-day care conversations.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy, a “third-wave” behavioral therapy that grew up out of the CBT lineage in the late 80s and 90s) has built itself into a…
May 30, 2025
Sleep, Stress, and Your Brain
Sleep deprivation isn't something you can think your way out of. Chronic stress and five hour nights make everything else on your psych chart worse.
May 18, 2025
Gabapentin
Gabapentin is the drug American psychiatry is in a quiet relationship with that nobody really wants to talk about publicly. It's prescribed constantly.
Apr 15, 2025
Buspar (buspirone)
Buspar is the anti-anxiety drug I wish more people had heard of, mostly because it’s the answer to a lot of situations where the patient or the prescriber…
Apr 7, 2025
Effexor (venlafaxine)
Effexor is the SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, the antidepressant class that hits both serotonin and norepinephrine instead of just…
Mar 31, 2025
Two Quotes That Changed How Clients Think
“If the problem can be solved, why worry?
Mar 26, 2025
Why Your Brain Won’t Shut Up at Night
It's 2 AM. You have to be up in five hours.
Mar 25, 2025
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
GAD (generalized anxiety disorder, the diagnosis given to chronic free-floating worry that isn't attached to one specific thing) is the kind of anxiety…
Feb 9, 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
Lexapro (Escitalopram)
Lexapro is the SSRI I start with most of the time, and the reason is boring...
Jan 29, 2025
Choosing between SSRIs, SNRIs, and what comes next
The decision tree for picking an antidepressant in 2026 isn't really a tree, it's more like a workflow, and the workflow is a lot simpler than the size of…
Jan 24, 2025