America Is Number One
We lead the world in substance use disorders and overdose deaths. We lead our closest peers in mental health need and suicide. What pain are we trying to bury?
PsychiatRick
PsychiatRick explores the intersection of mental health, politics, culture, and power through the lens of a PMHNP, combat veteran, and bluntly curious observer of American dysfunction.
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Trump Took This Soldier’s Wife.
Someone made the call. But what about the others
META KNEW IT WAS RECOMMENDING KIDS TO GROOMERS
Its own testing exposed the danger. A New Mexico court just ordered the company to pay $942 million.
The Army Made Tech Executives Lieutenant Colonels. You Probably Didn't Know About It.
What their new rank could mean for military authority, national-security access, and corporate influence
The New CDC Director Wants to Talk About Abortion Surveillance. Women Should Be Paying Attention.
I already watched politics infect public health during COVID. I’m not interested in watching Dr. Erica Schwartz help do it again, this time with reproductive healthcare.
RFK Jr. Is Destroying HHS, and People Are Getting Sick
Measles is surging, Cyclospora is making Americans explosively shit themselves, and the nation’s top health official is still lying about antidepressants
How Do You Treat Trauma When Survival Is Still in Question?
Palestinians don’t need another lesson in resilience. They need food, water, shelter, safety, and an end to the ongoing genocide.
Sunday Diagnosis: Inside the Mind of a Mass Shooter
How grievance, violent fantasy, suicidality, and access to guns can turn personal collapse into public slaughter
Are We Preparing to Send Troops Into Iran
I entered Iraq at twenty with one liter of water a day, no showers for three months, and soldiers without flak vests. I’m afraid the next war could be worse.
Selective Grief
Why some lives are mourned completely and others only conditionally