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 27-year-old paralegal in Minneapolis, did not think she had a problem until the night she found herself crying in her bathroom at 1:30 a.m. after three hours of doomscrolling. The trigger had been small: a coworker’s vacation post. The spiral had been long: comparison, news, more comparison, a strange wellness influencer’s diet routine, … Read more
Priya, a 27-year-old paralegal in Minneapolis, did not think she had a problem until the night she found herself crying in her bathroom at 1:30 a.m. after three hours of doomscrolling. The trigger had been small: a coworker’s vacation post. The spiral had been long: comparison, news, more comparison, a strange wellness influencer’s diet routine, … 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
Dr. Anita Rao practiced anesthesia at a Level I trauma center in Cleveland for nine years before the diversion started. It began with leftover fentanyl in syringes that should have gone to waste. By month four she was injecting between cases, hiding the evidence in the drug return system. The OR pharmacy noticed the discrepancies … Read more
Dr. Anita Rao practiced anesthesia at a Level I trauma center in Cleveland for nine years before the diversion started. It began with leftover fentanyl in syringes that should have gone to waste. By month four she was injecting between cases, hiding the evidence in the drug return system. The OR pharmacy noticed the discrepancies … Read more
When 19-year-old Marcus Bell first walked into a therapy office in Austin, Texas, he had already been turned away by two providers. The first told him he needed to “wait until he was older to be sure.” The second insisted on a 12-month exploratory phase before discussing a referral letter for hormone therapy, even though … Read more
When 19-year-old Marcus Bell first walked into a therapy office in Austin, Texas, he had already been turned away by two providers. The first told him he needed to “wait until he was older to be sure.” The second insisted on a 12-month exploratory phase before discussing a referral letter for hormone therapy, even though … Read more
Marcus had been driving for Uber and DoorDash in Phoenix for almost three years when the panic attacks started. He was making decent money, around $52,000 a year, but he had no health insurance because he assumed contractors couldn’t afford it. After his third trip to the emergency room in two months, an ER social … Read more