Recovery, resilience, and life after treatment — staying well over time, navigating workplace mental health, and care for specific populations including seniors and post-treatment readers.
Marcus, a 34-year-old combat veteran living in Austin, Texas, came home from his second deployment with PTSD that nightmares could not loosen. He tried weekly therapy. He tried sertraline. He tried a meditation app his wife downloaded for him. The first time the panic crested in line at H-E-B, he abandoned a half-full cart and … Read more
Why Relapse Plans Are the Quietly Important Part of Therapy Most patients who recover from depression or anxiety experience at least one period of recurrence in their lifetime. The numbers depend on the condition and the population, but for major depressive disorder, the chance of a second episode within five years of the first is … Read more
Diane, a 41-year-old marketing director in Minneapolis, sat in her therapist’s office holding a printout she had bookmarked at 2 a.m. the night before. Twelve years married. Two kids. A career people described as enviable. Yet she had spent the entire previous weekend rehearsing imaginary failure conversations with her boss, her husband, her sister, and … Read more
Maya was thirty-one, a public school teacher in Sacramento, when she gave birth to her first daughter on a Thursday in March. She had read the books. She had set up the nursery. She had a doula at the birth and a birth plan that survived in some form. What she had not been ready … Read more
The Three Habits Therapists Cannot Replace Talk therapy and psychiatric medication are powerful tools, but they operate on top of a biological foundation that most patients quietly neglect. Sleep, exercise, and nutrition are the three pillars of long-term mental health, and yet they receive almost no clinical attention in standard mental health care. Patients spend years … Read more
The Three Habits Therapists Cannot Replace Talk therapy and psychiatric medication are powerful tools, but they operate on top of a biological foundation that most patients quietly neglect. Sleep, exercise, and nutrition are the three pillars of long-term mental health, and yet they receive almost no clinical attention in standard mental health care. Patients spend years … Read more
Patricia, a 53-year-old librarian in Cleveland, walked her younger son to the dorm at Ohio State on a humid August Saturday, hugged him in the parking lot, and drove the two and a half hours home in a silence that felt physical. By Tuesday, she had cleaned both children’s bedrooms, washed their old sheets, and … Read more
Patricia, a 53-year-old librarian in Cleveland, walked her younger son to the dorm at Ohio State on a humid August Saturday, hugged him in the parking lot, and drove the two and a half hours home in a silence that felt physical. By Tuesday, she had cleaned both children’s bedrooms, washed their old sheets, and … Read more
Diane from Portland was eating frozen pizza four nights a week and drinking diet soda with breakfast when her psychiatrist asked, almost in passing, what she ate on a typical day. Forty minutes later they had walked through her grocery list, her takeout history, her snack drawer at work, and her coffee shop muffin habit. … Read more
Diane from Portland was eating frozen pizza four nights a week and drinking diet soda with breakfast when her psychiatrist asked, almost in passing, what she ate on a typical day. Forty minutes later they had walked through her grocery list, her takeout history, her snack drawer at work, and her coffee shop muffin habit. … Read more