Or browse by what you are trying to figure out. Every article is written and reviewed by Nefretiri Abat, PMHNP-BC, JD.
New to this? These answer the questions almost everyone asks first.
Whether your plan pays, what it costs, and what to do if you are denied.
How TMS, Spravato and medication differ, and how to choose between them.
Next steps after a partial response, a relapse, or no response at all.
Sessions, side effects, timelines and what to expect day to day.
Evaluation, treatment and living with adult ADHD.
Understanding depression, including when it has not responded to treatment.
Anxiety, OCD and other conditions we treat.
People who took Spravato did better than people who took a placebo spray, by a moderate margin. Here
Procrastination and doomscrolling are attempts at relief. One small whiteboard gives the feeling underneath a place to be
What time blindness is, what a leading ADHD researcher recommends, and 14 small physical tools that keep time
A brain-scan study, an older therapy trial and a writing study look at what happens when people imagine
Standing by the door “just in case” can stop the brain from learning a fear is safe. Here’s
Anxious people solve problems just as well as anyone. What they lose is trust in their own answer,
Exposure therapy doesn’t delete a fear memory. It builds a second, safe memory that has to win. Here’s
Why telling an anxious person there’s nothing to worry about rarely helps, what the brain is actually tracking,
Can you train your memory back during depression? What a trial of 245 adults found, its honest limits,
Is depression memory loss permanent? What brain scans of 9,000 people show, and why memory problems tend to
Why your brain replays the worst moments on a loop during depression, what rumination is doing, and one
Why do happy memories feel faded when you’re depressed? What researchers call overgeneral memory, and why the details
Depression can make you forget names, plans and whole days. Brain scans show why, explained simply with a
A second opinion for treatment-resistant depression is a review of what has been tried and what should come
If you are reading this, something you tried for depression has stopped working, or never worked well enough.
The first Spravato appointment takes about two hours. Patients self-administer the nasal spray in the clinic under supervision,
