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How to Actually Access Your Mental Health Benefits
Insurance companies in this country have figured out a quietly profitable trick. They sell you a plan that technically includes mental health coverage, they staff a member-services line…
Jul 29, 2025
Performance Anxiety Isn’t Just About Sex
Performance anxiety doesn't show up the way the name suggests it does.
Jul 26, 2025
What Every Insurance Term Actually Means (And Which Ones Matter)
Insurance companies don't write their paperwork to be understood. They write it to be unfalsifiable, which is a different problem.
Jul 26, 2025
How Health Insurance Actually Works
Health insurance is confusing on purpose.
Jul 24, 2025
Stimulants Help Most People Focus. That Isn’t an ADHD Test.
The single most common ADHD diagnostic story I hear in the room goes like this...
Jul 13, 2025
Modafinil and the productivity stack
Modafinil is the drug a lot of guys in tech, finance, and the productivity-bro corners of the internet are taking off-label, often without a prescription,…
Jul 10, 2025
Mental health records: background checks, gun ownership, licensure
This is one of the questions that comes up in the first appointment most often, particularly from guys who own firearms or work in jobs with security…
Jun 27, 2025
ADHD in Adults Isn’t About Being Hyper
Most people picture ADHD as a kid bouncing off the walls, can't sit still, disruptive in class. That's one version of it, mostly in children.
Jun 12, 2025Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy, a “third-wave” behavioral therapy that grew up out of the CBT lineage in the late 80s and 90s) has built itself into a…
May 30, 2025
Sleep, Stress, and Your Brain
Sleep deprivation isn't something you can think your way out of. Chronic stress and five hour nights make everything else on your psych chart worse.
May 18, 2025
Burnout (ICD-11)
Burnout picked up an actual ICD-11 (the international diagnostic codebook used outside the U.S.) designation in 2019, and the conversation since then has…
May 14, 2025
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Persistent depressive disorder, what used to be called dysthymia, is the diagnosis for guys who've been depressed for so long they don't remember what…
May 9, 2025