Handout based medicine needs to change

This will be a short post against what I call “handout based medicine”. What’s that? You say… Let me explain. If you’re a chronic illness patient, you’ve likely had this experience: You get sent to a new medical provider. Say a nutritionist or a sleep therapist. You go to the appointment. Pay the copay. In […]

Mental health as a “trend”, pill shaming and severe mental illness

Hot take. Most of the trendy convo about mental health focuses on helping generally healthy folks deal with everyday stressors and sometimes folks with mild illness symptoms. It rarely talks about supporting folks with severe debilitating mental illness in a useful way except to share suicide hotline numbers. The thing is why let it get […]