Marisol, a thirty-four-year-old graphic designer in Austin, Texas, had tried four hearing therapists before she gave up on talk therapy entirely. Each session followed the same script: a stranger interpreter would arrive, sit between Marisol and the clinician, and translate her ASL into spoken English. The clinician would respond in English. The interpreter would sign … Read more
Patricia Donnelly, a 58-year-old retired teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, had been in private-practice therapy for two years when her panic attacks worsened despite three medication trials and weekly CBT. Her primary care physician at Cleveland Clinic suggested a referral to the hospital’s Center for Behavioral Health, where psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neuropsychologist could coordinate. Patricia … Read more
Patricia Donnelly, a 58-year-old retired teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, had been in private-practice therapy for two years when her panic attacks worsened despite three medication trials and weekly CBT. Her primary care physician at Cleveland Clinic suggested a referral to the hospital’s Center for Behavioral Health, where psychiatrists, psychologists, and a neuropsychologist could coordinate. Patricia … Read more
Marcus Reyna did three combat tours in Helmand Province before the Marine Corps medically retired him in 2019. The PTSD diagnosis came first, the alcohol came second, and by the time he was thirty-two he had been evicted from two apartments in San Antonio and was sleeping in his pickup outside a Whataburger. A VA … Read more
Marcus Reyna did three combat tours in Helmand Province before the Marine Corps medically retired him in 2019. The PTSD diagnosis came first, the alcohol came second, and by the time he was thirty-two he had been evicted from two apartments in San Antonio and was sleeping in his pickup outside a Whataburger. A VA … Read more
Priya, a 28-year-old paralegal in San Diego, had just bombed an oral argument practice when her hands began to claw inward involuntarily. Her lips went numb. Her jaw tightened. By the time her supervisor walked her to the urgent care two blocks away, she was convinced she was having a stroke. The clinician took one … Read more
Priya, a 28-year-old paralegal in San Diego, had just bombed an oral argument practice when her hands began to claw inward involuntarily. Her lips went numb. Her jaw tightened. By the time her supervisor walked her to the urgent care two blocks away, she was convinced she was having a stroke. The clinician took one … Read more
Maya, a 31-year-old graphic designer in Asheville, North Carolina, started noticing the dread before her phone even buzzed. Her best friend Tasha had been calling nightly for months, sometimes for two hours, processing a chaotic breakup, a job she hated, and a complicated relationship with her mother. Maya loved her. She wanted to help. But … Read more
Tasha noticed the changes slowly at first. Her mother Evelyn, 78, living alone in Charlotte, had always managed her own affairs, but in the span of about eighteen months she’d missed three Medicare Advantage open enrollment windows, let her supplemental coverage lapse, accumulated $4,200 in unpaid prescription copays, and started telling Tasha that “the people … Read more
Tasha noticed the changes slowly at first. Her mother Evelyn, 78, living alone in Charlotte, had always managed her own affairs, but in the span of about eighteen months she’d missed three Medicare Advantage open enrollment windows, let her supplemental coverage lapse, accumulated $4,200 in unpaid prescription copays, and started telling Tasha that “the people … Read more