Severe anxiety can feel resistant in the early weeks of treatment even when it’s working. Why that happens,
When anxiety treatment doesn’t reach untreated trauma, it can stall. Why trauma keeps the alarm on, and the
When therapy hasn’t reached the fear pattern, anxiety keeps shrinking your world. Why avoidance maintains anxiety and what
If an SSRI didn’t fix your anxiety, the next step isn’t always another pill. How to tell whether
When depression needs a higher level of care, TMS, SPRAVATO, and ECT each work differently. A clear, side-by-side
Treatment-resistant anxiety means an anxiety disorder hasn’t improved enough after appropriate, evidence-based treatment. What that really means, what
TMS and SPRAVATO are both options for depression that hasn’t responded to standard treatment, but they aren’t interchangeable.
When depression starts creeping back after treatment worked, a returning symptom isn’t a verdict — it’s a signal
When two antidepressants haven’t been enough, the next step shouldn’t be a faster guess. A treatment-resistant depression consult
Knowing you have anxiety but not knowing what kind is one of the most common patterns in clinical
Anxiety is maintained by avoidance — and effective treatment is the structured experience of doing the things the
SSRIs, SNRIs, buspirone, and benzodiazepines all treat anxiety — on different timescales, with different trade-offs. A board-certified PMHNP
Anxiety disorders affect 31% of U.S. adults across the lifespan — the most common mental health condition. A
Anxiety and ADHD can look almost identical from the outside — and about 40% of children with ADHD
Anxious treatment-resistant depression is the median pattern in real-world studies, not the outlier — 53 percent of STAR*D
ADHD is not a deficit of attention in any simple sense — it’s a neurodevelopmental disorder of self-regulation
