Recovery
Everything we have written on Recovery, in one place.
Provider type field guide: PA, NP, MD, PhD, LMFT, LCSW
The alphabet soup of mental health providers is genuinely confusing and there's no good reason for the patient to have to figure it out on their own,…
Mar 26, 2025
AI Therapy Isn’t Therapy
The thing guys are calling AI therapy now is usually not Woebot, Wysa, or some mental health startup with a cute mascot and a CBT worksheet engine.
Mar 15, 2025
Why Your Therapist Can’t Fix You
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...
Mar 3, 2025
Adjustment Disorder
Adjustment disorder is the diagnosis most underused in actual practice, which is funny because it's the diagnosis that probably fits half the people who…
Feb 27, 2025
OCD
OCD is one of those diagnoses that got grabbed by pop culture and quietly butchered along the way.
Feb 14, 2025
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
DBT (dialectical behavior therapy, the skills-and-group approach that came out of Marsha Linehan's lab in the 1980s) got invented to treat patients with…
Feb 6, 2025
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy, the structured worksheet-and-homework kind, not the talk-about-your-mother kind) is the therapy with the most evidence…
Feb 4, 2025
Cymbalta (Duloxetine)
Cymbalta is the drug I reach for when the depression has a physical component...
Feb 1, 2025
Lexapro (Escitalopram)
Lexapro is the SSRI I start with most of the time, and the reason is boring...
Jan 29, 2025
When to switch antidepressants, and when to stay
Half the antidepressant switches that happen shouldn't have happened, and the other half should have happened six months earlier.
Jan 27, 2025
Choosing between SSRIs, SNRIs, and what comes next
The decision tree for picking an antidepressant in 2026 isn't really a tree, it's more like a workflow, and the workflow is a lot simpler than the size of…
Jan 24, 2025
How long does an antidepressant actually take to work?
Eight to twelve weeks at a real dose.
Jan 16, 2025