Mood Disorders Treatment
“Mood disorder” is a category, not a diagnosis. Under that umbrella sit a half dozen actually-different illnesses: regular old depression, bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, premenstrual dysphoric disorder,…
May 7, 2025
Why “Rock Bottom” Is Bullshit
Rock bottom is bullshit. The idea that addicts and depressed people have to lose the marriage, lose the job, lose the house, get the DUI, wake up in…
May 6, 2025
Ketamine
Ketamine has been around since 1962, doing its boring day job as an anesthetic in operating rooms and battlefield medic kits, and the depression piece is the much…
May 1, 2025
The Real Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging
People sabotage themselves constantly and they can’t tell you why. Get within sight of something working out and they blow it up. Six months sober, the marriage is…
Apr 30, 2025
How to Know If Your Provider Is Actually Helping
Most people who fire their psychiatrist wait about a year too long to do it. They sit through appointment after appointment, refilling something that isn’t quite working, talking…
Apr 25, 2025
Caplyta (Lumateperone)
Caplyta is the antipsychotic that came out in 2019 and made a bunch of psychiatrists do a double-take at the receptor pharmacology, then another double-take at the price…
Apr 23, 2025
High Dose Ketamine – In Clinic
High-dose ketamine done in a clinic is a different animal from the troches you take at home. Same molecule, different dose, different route, and a completely different experience.…
Apr 22, 2025
Lurasidone (Latuda)
Lurasidone is the drug you reach for when somebody walks in with bipolar depression and a body that’s already been wrecked by Seroquel. It’s an atypical antipsychotic (the…
Apr 16, 2025
IV Athletic Recovery
IV recovery is one of those wellness products that works just well enough to keep selling itself. You walk in dehydrated, hungover, beat up from a long ride,…
Mar 19, 2025
Why Your Therapist Can’t Fix You (And That’s a Good Thing)
Your therapist can’t fix you, and that’s actually the news the whole industry is trying not to lead with. Guys come into therapy wanting to be fixed… drop…
Mar 3, 2025