The world has this massive problem now where tons of people—mostly young ones—are just straight-up disappearing into their rooms and not coming back out. No, they’re not in Narnia, and no, they’re not just “taking some time.” They’re stuck. And I don’t mean stuck in traffic or stuck on a math problem. I mean emotionally,...

So, Are My Meds About to Vanish? First things first: nobody is carting off your Prozac or Adderall in handcuffs. Right now, we are living under an Executive Order (EO, which is political shorthand for “the president scribbled something in pen and now a committee has homework”) that created the Make America Healthy Again Commission....

If America has a tradition, it isn’t baseball or apple pie. It is ignoring experts until disaster strikes, then swearing we will never do it again… until we do. Most people think medicines magically appear in orange bottles because some CVS elf worked overtime in the stockroom. Behind every pill is centuries of messy trial...

RFK Jr. vs. Stimulants Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not just co-chair of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission. He is also the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which technically makes him the nation’s top public health official and, for the purposes of this essay, the chief potato of HHS....

What Even Is ADHD? It’s not just “kids bouncing off the walls because of Mountain Dew.” ADHD is a legit, brain-based condition where your attention, impulse control, and ability to sit through algebra without doodling swords in the margins all go haywire. The DSM (aka the Big Book of “Why You’re Weird”) calls it “a...

What if your psychiatrist actually had time to talk to you, not just for fifteen minutes, not just to click boxes and refill your prescription, but to really understand why you feel the way you do? What if your appointment included a conversation about your childhood, your diet, your sleep, and even your gut bacteria,...

We live in a culture where people will swallow, snort, inject, or chug just about anything if it promises to make them happier, sharper, or stronger. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, and some of it lands you in a congressional hearing. SSRIs SSRIs are the antidepressants like fluoxetine, sertraline, escitalopram. They’ve been...

OCD officially packed its bags and moved out of the Anxiety Disorders “house” in 2013 when the DSM-5 came out1. Before that, it lived with all the other anxious conditions, but the experts decided OCD was just too unique to be lumped in2. Now it lives in its own fancy neighborhood called “Obsessive-Compulsive and Related...

Jeffrey Epstein did not create trauma. He industrialized it. He turned teenage girls into party favors for men who already had everything. He built a machine with drivers, pilots, butlers, lawyers, and moneyed friends. All of them claimed later they “didn’t know.” The trauma he left behind did not end when the headlines moved on....