by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
The fog was the one that ended it. You read the same work email four times and never answered it. Before that it was weight you did not choose, and before that a sex life that went flat. Every trial started the same way: a hopeful first week, a rough second, then the...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
Somebody said it to you: a partner mid-argument, a friend half joking, or a video that seemed made about your week. “You’re probably bipolar.” Three nights of reading later you are more frightened than when you started. And the day they described was...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
Your brother-in-law did two tours. Someone at work survived something you would not repeat out loud. Next to either of those, a wreck on I-20 with the airbag dust still hanging in the car does not seem like much. You run that comparison every time it occurs to you to...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
You fall asleep fine. Ten-thirty, lights out, gone. Then it is 3:47 and you are awake. Not drifting-off awake. Wide awake, heart going, already thinking. By five you have relitigated Tuesday’s conversation, your finances, and most of your life. If you are waking...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
Put on a cap and watch a cartoon. That is roughly how PRISM gets described, and the skepticism is fair. Anyone who has met a brain-training headband ad has earned some. The short answer to how PRISM works for PTSD: a cap records electrical activity at your scalp,...
by Institute For Advanced Psychiatry | Oct 4, 2026 | Blogs, Patient Guides
Most of the conversation about ketamine goes the way you would expect: the medications that did not help, what an infusion involves, what the evidence does and does not say. Then we get to the calendar. Who drives you home after a ketamine infusion is a question to...
