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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're treating. Panic, worry, performance anxiety, and withdrawal aren't the same job.

Jun 11, 2026
Pregabalin (Lyrica)
Medications · 7 min read

Pregabalin (Lyrica)

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

Mar 31, 2026
Hydroxyzine
Medications · 9 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 · 10 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