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 use medications for reasons that don’t match their names. That’s why some clinicians are turning to Neuroscience-Based Nomenclature (NbN)—a system that classifies meds by mechanism instead of indication.

We reviewed Psymatik in The Carlat Psychiatry Report this month, as part of our occasional coverage on how AI and digital tools are changing the way we prescribe.

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