“ChatGPT told me this medication can cause dementia.” “I put my symptoms into ChatGPT, and it said I might have bipolar disorder.” “ChatGPT says these two medications shouldn’t be taken together.” For clinicians, conversations like these are becoming part of everyday practice. Patients have always arrived at appointments with information they found outside the exam […]
Category: For Providers
How Providers Can Easily Spot ADHD in Perimenopause
A patient in her late 40s comes in for her annual visit. She mentions, almost in passing, that she’s been more forgetful lately, losing her train of thought mid-sentence, struggling to keep up at work in a way she never used to. The default read is perimenopause and it may well be part of the […]
What LGBTQIA+ Patients Wish Their Mental Health Providers Understood
As psychiatric clinicians, we’re trained to assess symptoms and offer care based on what we hear. Yet, when it comes to LGBTQIA+ patients, many providers miss critical parts of the story, not out of malice, but due to a lack of training and awareness. This isn’t about shame; it’s about growth. LGBTQIA+ patients face unique […]
Cultural Competence Unlocks Better Mental Health Outcomes
We don’t all walk into psychiatric care with the same background, the same trust in the system, or the same access to resources. And yet mental health care has often been built on assumptions that ignore those differences. That is not just outdated thinking. It creates real harm. Cultural competence is not a bonus skill […]