Depression, Explained
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it's about. Depression doesn't, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world.
Why some clinicians won’t take insurance
I take insurance. A lot of psychiatrists in private practice don't.
PHP vs IOP vs Outpatient
These three terms get used like everybody knows what they mean and most patients don't, so they end up in the wrong level of care.
Freedom Costs Blood. Mental Health Costs Choices.
Freedom isn’t free. Neither is good mental health.
Zoloft
Zoloft is the drug I prescribe more than anything else, and the one patients ask the most questions about before they're willing to swallow the first pill.
Psychiatric hospitalization: what to expect
Most people who get hospitalized for a psychiatric reason have never been inside one and have no idea what's about to happen, which makes a scary thing…
ADHD in Adults Isn’t About Being Hyper
Most people picture ADHD as a kid bouncing off the walls, can't sit still, disruptive in class. That's one version of it, mostly in children.
The Story I’m Telling Myself Is…
Most people don't get taken out by facts first. They get taken out by what the facts start to mean. You send a text and don't hear back.
Trintellix (Vortioxetine)
Trintellix is the antidepressant pharma reps spent a decade trying to make happen.
CBT-I deep dive (beyond the mention)
CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, the structured-protocol kind that actually has a syllabus, not the talk-about-your-sleep-feelings kind)…
Expectations Hurt Us More Than People Do
A lot of disappointment starts long before anyone actually does anything wrong. It starts in the quiet little contract we made in our own head.
Why Men Avoid Therapy
Men kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do in the US, that gap has held year after year, the pandemic didn't close it, the recession…