by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Patient Guides, Blogs
It is usually late when people read about this. You have done everything you could. Three medications. A course of therapy finished, another one stopped. The sleep is still bad. Around eleven at night you find an article about ketamine for PTSD and think: why has...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
Three months. You counted them. You got through the first hard week, the wedding where everyone had a drink in hand, the Tuesday nights that you used to have a bottle. And still wake at five in the morning with something heavy in your chest. The story is always the...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
The number has been on the back of an envelope for two weeks. Every time you pick up the phone you get as far as imagining one question, the one about past substance use, and you set it back down. You have already decided how the call ends. So you search instead for...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
You have read about buprenorphine twice this week, both times late, both times alone. One thought gets there faster than the information does: saying this out loud will cost you something. A job. Custody. The way your sister looks at you at Thanksgiving. An...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
The house is quiet and you already know what will get you to sleep. Maybe two fingers of something. Maybe half a pill from a prescription somebody wrote long ago. It works fast. That is the problem. Self-medicating PTSD is not weakness; it is what happens when someone...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
You run the numbers before you pour. Two glasses and you are asleep by eleven. Three and you go under faster, then you are up at three with your heart pounding, and Wednesday costs you something. Alcohol and depression tangle together this quietly for a lot of adults,...
