Recovery
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Bipolar I vs Bipolar II vs Cyclothymia
These three diagnoses get confused constantly, including by clinicians, and the difference matters because the treatments diverge in important ways.
May 6, 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.
Apr 30, 2025
Cannabis-induced psychosis (2025 evidence)
The data on cannabis and psychosis is no longer ambiguous, and saying so out loud is going to lose some readers in the first paragraph.
Apr 26, 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.
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…
Apr 23, 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.
Apr 16, 2025
Gabapentin
Gabapentin is the drug American psychiatry is in a quiet relationship with that nobody really wants to talk about publicly. It's prescribed constantly.
Apr 15, 2025
Buspar (buspirone)
Buspar is the anti-anxiety drug I wish more people had heard of, mostly because it’s the answer to a lot of situations where the patient or the prescriber…
Apr 7, 2025
Paxil (paroxetine)
Paxil is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class) I almost never start a new patient on, and the…
Apr 5, 2025
Celexa (citalopram)
Celexa is the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, the standard first-line antidepressant class that boosts serotonin without much else going on)…
Apr 2, 2025
Effexor (venlafaxine)
Effexor is the SNRI (serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, the antidepressant class that hits both serotonin and norepinephrine instead of just…
Mar 31, 2025
Why your psychiatrist is rushed (the 15-min visit)
The 15-minute psychiatric follow-up is the unit of care in most outpatient psychiatry now, and most patients hate it and most psychiatrists hate it too. The reason it…
Mar 28, 2025