Imagine your brain is like a chill, well-balanced party. Everyone’s doing their thing—dopamine’s out there passing around snacks of motivation and pleasure—basically the brain’s hype man, making sure you care about stuff, want stuff, and get up off the couch to go after stuff. In addiction, dopamine gets completely hijacked. Substances and behaviors that trigger...
We’ll talk about trauma. We’ll talk about serotonin. We’ll talk about childhood neglect, mood stabilizers, the therapeutic alliance, dopamine, the orbitofrontal cortex. We’ll talk about suicidal ideation and existential despair. But mention that a patient saw a dead relative in the hospital hallway before going into cardiac arrest? Say out loud that a six-year-old recalls—with...
It started with a shrug. Not a bang, not a riot. Just millions of people gaslit into submission while institutions cracked beneath the weight of denial. One moment you’re watching the news; the next, you’re questioning your sanity. Welcome to the world’s longest toxic relationship—America, circa right now—where the government’s got its hand on your...
This Didn’t Start With You—But You’re the One in Therapy Now What happens when the ghosts you inherit show up in your nervous system—and how to break the cycle without breaking down. The kind of pain that doesn’t start with you but somehow lives in you, waking you up at 3 a.m., tightening your chest...
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,...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (aka Chief Potato) decided it’d be a great idea to save America by banning all those fun, colorful food dyes—you know, the ones that make your candy neon and your sports drinks look radioactive[1]. He calls it “Make America Healthy Again” or MAHA, because apparently acronyms make everything sound official. But...
Imagine this: you’re finally in bed, the lights are out, your sheets are soft, your body is exhausted—and your brain picks this exact moment to replay that awkward thing you said in 2009. Or it suddenly decides to solve climate change, decode your ex’s last message, and count every bad decision you’ve ever made. Welcome...
Ever felt like you were losing your grip—not because you actually were, but because someone kept telling you that you were? That’s not drama. That’s gaslighting1. It’s not a disagreement. It’s not “just a different perspective.” It’s a calculated tactic—used to mess with your sense of reality until you start second-guessing your memory, your emotions,...
Ever tried having a conversation with someone who can’t focus longer than a TikTok video but genuinely believes he’s the next Einstein1? Never mind that Einstein didn’t need to launch cars into space or promise underground cities that never quite materialize. Meanwhile, this same person starts a million ambitious projects, only to leave them half-finished2....
“Neurotypical” is the word people use when your brain basically follows the user manual that society wrote (without asking anyone first, by the way). You do all the expected stuff like smiling at strangers, making eye contact without combusting, and understanding sarcasm without needing a five-minute explainer. But then there are people who don’t run...
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