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Involuntary holds: OR/WA specifics
Oregon and Washington don't use the California 5150/5250 numbering, which confuses people who moved up here from the Bay Area expecting that vocabulary.
Jun 10, 2026
MAT (Medication Assisted Treatment)
If you have opioid use disorder, medication is the actual treatment.
Jun 2, 2026
TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation, an in-office procedure where a magnetic coil sits against the side of your head and pulses a magnetic field into a…
Mar 16, 2026
Sexual Performance
Sexual performance is one of those topics where guys sit on a problem for years before bringing it up, and then when they finally do, it's at the end of…
Oct 12, 2025
How to Transfer Your ADHD Prescription to a New Provider
Maybe you moved. Maybe your provider retired.
Oct 1, 2025
Adult ADHD, Explained
Adult ADHD treatment is one of the parts of psychiatry where the gap between what works and what most patients actually get prescribed is genuinely wide.
Sep 18, 2025
Testosterone
Testosterone is the most over-prescribed hormone in American medicine right now, and it's not close.
Sep 12, 2025
What to Expect in Your First Appointment
Nobody walks into a first psychiatric appointment relaxed and anybody who claims they did is lying. The fears stack up the same way for almost everyone...
Aug 28, 2025
Bipolar Disorder, Explained
Bipolar treatment goes wrong in the first appointment more often than in any later one. Get the diagnosis wrong and every prescription after it is wrong.
Aug 27, 2025
Men’s Health
Men don't usually walk into a psychiatrist's office and say they're depressed.
Aug 20, 2025
PTSD, Explained
PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong.
Jul 19, 2025
Anxiety, Explained
The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it's possible for two conversations on the…
Jul 7, 2025