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Anxiolytic

Articles tagged Anxiolytic cover when this care approach may fit, what to expect, tradeoffs, safety questions, and how it can connect with therapy, medication, or lifestyle work.

Anti-Anxiety Medications
Medications · 8 min read

Anti-Anxiety Medications

Anti-anxiety medication only makes sense after you name the kind of anxiety you are treating. Panic, worry, performance anxiety, and withdrawal are not the same job.

Jun 11, 2026
Pregabalin (Lyrica)
Medications · 8 min read

Pregabalin (Lyrica)

Pregabalin is gabapentin's better-looking, more expensive cousin.

Mar 31, 2026
Hydroxyzine
Medications · 10 min read

Hydroxyzine

Hydroxyzine has been sitting in the pharmacy for sixty years doing useful work, and most prescribers act like it doesn't exist.

Sep 1, 2025
Propranolol
Medications · 11 min read

Propranolol

Propranolol is a cardiology drug that wandered into psychiatry by accident and stayed because it does one specific thing well.

Aug 3, 2025
Gabapentin
Medications · 8 min read

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)
Medications · 9 min read

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