# 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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## [America Is Number One](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/america-is-number-one)

_2026-08-17 · PsychiatRick_

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?

## [Trump Took This Soldier’s Wife.](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/trump-took-this-soldiers-wife-now)

_2026-08-15 · PsychiatRick_

Someone made the call. But what about the others

## [META KNEW IT WAS RECOMMENDING KIDS TO GROOMERS](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/meta-knew-it-was-recommending-kids)

_2026-08-13 · PsychiatRick_

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.](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/the-army-made-tech-executives-lieutenant)

_2026-08-11 · PsychiatRick_

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.](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/the-new-cdc-director-wants-to-talk)

_2026-08-09 · PsychiatRick_

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](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-destroying-hhs-and-people)

_2026-08-06 · PsychiatRick_

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?](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/how-do-you-treat-trauma-when-survival)

_2026-08-04 · PsychiatRick_

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](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/sunday-diagnosis-inside-the-mind)

_2026-08-02 · PsychiatRick_

How grievance, violent fantasy, suicidality, and access to guns can turn personal collapse into public slaughter

## [Are We Preparing to Send Troops Into Iran](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/are-we-preparing-to-send-troops-into)

_2026-07-30 · PsychiatRick_

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.

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## [Selective Grief](https://psychiatrick.substack.com/p/sunday-diagnosis-selective-grief)

_2026-07-28 · PsychiatRick_

Why some lives are mourned completely and others only conditionally