How do you approach patients who ask about cannabis for anxiety?

A reminder that focus problems don’t always mean ADHD. That suffering doesn’t always need a label. And that quick relief can sometimes do lasting harm.

Yesterday I wrote about what it feels like to live with social anxiety.

Today I want to talk about how we ask about it.

We talk about social anxiety like it’s just shyness with a clinical name. But for some patients, it’s life-halting.

Your patient has a new partner. But she doesn’t seem happy.

We’re trained to treat mental illness—not to navigate the courtroom.

Her business was failing and her marriage was falling apart. She wanted to OD on her insulin.