Recovery
Everything we have written on Recovery, in one place.
Why “Self-Care” Misses the Point (And What Actually Works)
I'm not against bubble baths. If a hot bath and some candles make you feel better, great, do that, nobody's coming for your candles.
Aug 18, 2025
Propranolol
Propranolol is a cardiology drug that wandered into psychiatry by accident and stayed because it does one specific thing well.
Aug 3, 2025
Remeron
Remeron is the antidepressant nobody picks first and a lot of guys end up grateful for.
Jul 29, 2025
PTSD, Explained
PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong.
Jul 19, 2025
Ketamine Assisted Therapy
Ketamine-assisted therapy is what it sounds like.
Jul 6, 2025
Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible
You already know something's off, and you've probably known for a while... months, maybe years.
Jul 1, 2025
PCP-psychiatrist handoff: when to switch
A lot of the psychiatric medication in this country is prescribed by primary care doctors, not psychiatrists.
Jun 30, 2025
Off-label prescribing: what it means
A huge percentage of what psychiatrists prescribe is off-label, and most patients have no idea, which is its own problem.
Jun 25, 2025
Long-term med use realities (20-year horizons)
The honest answer to "can I stay on this medication for the rest of my life" is: we don't fully know what happens at 30 or 40 years out, because…
Jun 22, 2025
Antidepressant withdrawal vs relapse: distinguishing
Guys stop their antidepressant, feel terrible a couple weeks later, assume the depression is back, restart the medication. Sometimes that's right.
Jun 20, 2025
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.
Jun 19, 2025
Why some clinicians won’t take insurance
I take insurance. A lot of psychiatrists in private practice don't.
Jun 17, 2025