Tag: mental health
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Ketamine clinics could be the next opioid crisis
Ketamine therapy is exploding with little oversight, weak protocols, and the same incentive structures that fueled the opioid crisis. Here’s the warning.
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Why Mental Health Diagnoses Can Be Too Broad
DSM categories sweep together patients with very different underlying conditions. Here’s why broad mental health diagnoses can blur clinical decision-making.
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Long-term therapy can quietly create dependency
Therapy helps many people. Long-term, open-ended therapy without clear goals can also quietly produce dependency that gets harder to leave the longer it lasts.
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Insurance-driven 50-minute sessions are bad medicine
The 50-minute therapy hour exists because insurance pays for it, not because it’s clinically optimal. The format quietly limits what therapy can do.
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Psychiatric withdrawal is real, severe, and underreported
Coming off psychiatric medications can produce withdrawal that mimics relapse, lasts months, and goes largely unacknowledged in clinical guidance. Here’s what’s known.
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Talk therapy is wildly oversold for most mild-to-moderate cases
Therapy works, but not as universally or dramatically as marketing suggests. The evidence on mild-to-moderate cases is more modest than the cultural conversation admits.
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Depression is sometimes a rational response to a bad life
Not all depression is a brain glitch. Sometimes it’s an accurate signal that something in your life needs to change. Here’s why pathologizing it can miss the point.
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Burnout isn’t a medical condition — it’s a labor issue
Calling burnout a medical problem privatizes a workplace failure. Here’s why the framing matters — and what actually moves the needle.
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Prepping can become an unhealthy obsession
A reasonable emergency kit is sensible. But prepping can slide from preparation into a costly, anxiety-driven identity. Here’s where the line gets crossed.