Tyler Bishop was 27, a freelance video editor in Austin, Texas, and proud of being smart with money. He had crunched the numbers on the marketplace plans during the previous open enrollment and concluded that a catastrophic plan was the right choice. Premium under $230 a month. Three primary care visits before the deductible. Coverage … Read more
The Body Keeps the Score Even When the Mind Forgets You were in a car accident three years ago. You walked away with only bruises. But ever since, you cannot drive on the highway without your heart racing and your palms sweating. You take back roads everywhere. You are always scanning for danger. Your family … Read more
The Body Keeps the Score Even When the Mind Forgets You were in a car accident three years ago. You walked away with only bruises. But ever since, you cannot drive on the highway without your heart racing and your palms sweating. You take back roads everywhere. You are always scanning for danger. Your family … Read more
Devon was nineteen, halfway through his second semester at a community college outside Rochester, New York, when his mother first noticed that something had shifted. He stopped sleeping. He papered the windows of his bedroom with aluminum foil because he believed the neighbours were filming him. By March he was no longer attending class, and … Read more
Eleanor was seventy-eight years old, a retired piano teacher from Milwaukee with mild Alzheimer’s disease, when her behavior changed in a way her daughter Patricia could not explain. Over six weeks, Eleanor stopped sleeping, accused her late husband of hiding in the basement, and one Tuesday morning attempted to hit a memory care aide with … Read more
The Telehealth Therapy Market Has Matured Quickly Five years ago, virtual therapy was an emergency adaptation. Today, it is a permanent and dominant mode of mental health care delivery in the United States, with several distinct categories of platforms competing for patients. Most prospective patients hear two or three brand names and assume those are the options, … Read more
The Telehealth Therapy Market Has Matured Quickly Five years ago, virtual therapy was an emergency adaptation. Today, it is a permanent and dominant mode of mental health care delivery in the United States, with several distinct categories of platforms competing for patients. Most prospective patients hear two or three brand names and assume those are the options, … Read more
Aubrey Castellanos had been hospitalised eleven times before her 24th birthday. The Long Beach paralegal had run through three outpatient DBT therapists, two day programs, and a 28-day stay at a generic dual-diagnosis facility in Riverside that did not understand borderline personality disorder. After a December 2024 emergency room visit for a serious self-harm episode, … 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
Recognising the Moment Before a Crisis Becomes One Most family members of people with serious mental health conditions describe the same feeling about the days leading up to a major crisis: they could see something was wrong, but they could not name what it was, and by the time they understood what they were watching, … Read more