Psychiatry, honestly.
Writing about psych meds, diagnoses, and the work itself.
By the people who do it for a living.
Abilify (aripiprazole)
Abilify is the drug I add to an antidepressant when the antidepressant is doing maybe sixty percent of the job and we need to find the other forty.…
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AI therapy chatbots, clinical perspective
Patients started bringing up Woebot a few years back, and at this point half the guys under thirty who walk into a psychiatry appointment have at some point…
Jun 1, 2026
Auvelity (dextromethorphan/bupropion)
Auvelity is a once-daily pill that combines dextromethorphan, the cough syrup ingredient, with bupropion, which most people know as Wellbutrin. It got FDA approval in 2022 for major…
Jun 1, 2026
Buprenorphine for depression and chronic pain
Buprenorphine is best known as an addiction medication, particularly for opioid use disorder, but a growing body of research and a quieter clinical practice have been using it…
Jun 1, 2026
Caplyta off-label use
Caplyta (lumateperone) is one of the newer atypical antipsychotics, FDA-approved for schizophrenia and bipolar depression, and what’s more interesting than its approved uses is what it’s quietly getting…
Jun 1, 2026
Compounded ketamine lozenges
For about five years, compounded ketamine troches and lozenges (small dissolving tablets made by specialty compounding pharmacies, taken at home) were the fastest-growing segment of mental health treatment…
Jun 1, 2026
Doxepin for sleep
Doxepin is a tricyclic antidepressant from the 1960s that turned out, at very low doses, to be one of the best sleep medications available. The 3mg and 6mg…
Jun 1, 2026What's on the site.
Four buckets. The writing's organized so you can find what you came for without scrolling for ten minutes.
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Medications
SSRIs, stimulants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics. What they actually do, what they don't, and what to expect.
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Conditions
ADHD, anxiety, depression, PTSD, bipolar, addiction. Plain explanations, not textbook copy.
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Treatment
Therapy types compared, how care actually works, and what to ask a prescriber.
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Off Script
Essays and observations from working clinicians. Mental health, broader than a diagnosis.
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Everybody who writes here is a working clinician. It's the day job, not a side project. The stuff on this site is meant to be educational, not medical advice, and nothing here replaces an actual conversation with whoever's prescribing for you. If you're in crisis right now, please call 988 or get to an ER.