Outpatient
Articles tagged Outpatient cover when this care approach may fit, what to expect, tradeoffs, safety questions, and how it can connect with therapy, medication, or lifestyle work.
What “Trauma-Informed Care” Actually Means
Trauma informed care is the most successful piece of mental health branding of the last decade, and for a crowd that never shuts up about how…
Nov 12, 2025
What to Expect in Your First Appointment
Nobody walks into a first psychiatric appointment relaxed and anybody who claims they did is lying. The fears stack up the same way for almost everyone...
Aug 28, 2025
Men’s Health
Men don't usually walk into a psychiatrist's office and say they're depressed.
Aug 20, 2025
Men’s Mental Health: Why Asking for Help Feels Impossible
You already know something's off, and you've probably known for a while... months, maybe years.
Jul 1, 2025
PCP-psychiatrist handoff: when to switch
A lot of the psychiatric medication in this country is prescribed by primary care doctors, not psychiatrists.
Jun 30, 2025
Why some clinicians won’t take insurance
I take insurance. A lot of psychiatrists in private practice don't.
Jun 17, 2025
PHP vs IOP vs Outpatient
These three terms get used like everybody knows what they mean and most patients don't, so they end up in the wrong level of care.
Jun 14, 2025
Why Men Avoid Therapy
Men kill themselves at roughly four times the rate women do in the US, that gap has held year after year, the pandemic didn't close it, the recession…
Jun 7, 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
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
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
Why Asking for Help Feels Like Weakness
For most of the guys who land in a psych office, the hardest thing they did in years wasn't the appointment. It was the phone call to book it.
Mar 24, 2025