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Writing

Notes from the confluence

Occasional essays on how psychiatry works, how it fails, and how to be a good steward of your own mind. Written for patients and curious readers, not for colleagues.

On the two currents · July 2026

When healing becomes identity

Years of kind, supportive therapy can leave a person more fluent in their pain and no closer to a life. On the crossing, why it terrifies, and why navigating it is the heart of mental health.

On practice · July 2026

Why the evaluation here takes two sessions

The most consequential decisions in psychiatric care are made at the very beginning. Here is what changes when the beginning is given two sessions instead of thirty minutes.