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.

Prolonged grief disorder made it into the DSM-5-TR (the most current version of the psychiatric diagnostic manual) in 2022, and the diagnosis is useful…

Burnout picked up an actual ICD-11 (the international diagnostic codebook used outside the U.S.) designation in 2019, and the conversation since then has…

A lot of guys think anger is the problem because anger is the part everybody sees...

This one's for the husbands, because most of the guys who come in with a wife who has PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder, the severe, predictable mood…

Persistent depressive disorder, what used to be called dysthymia, is the diagnosis for guys who've been depressed for so long they don't remember what…

These three diagnoses get confused constantly, including by clinicians, and the difference matters because the treatments diverge in important ways.

Loneliness isn't a DSM diagnosis and nobody's going to pretend it's, but it functions like one in terms of risk, and the data on it for middle-aged men…

The word narcissist has been so thoroughly hijacked by TikTok and pop psychology that you can't use it in a clinical conversation anymore without first…