The Missing Half of Mental Healthcare
I remember the first time I sat in a psychiatrist’s waiting room a decade ago. I was convinced that once I got that little slip of paper with a prescription on it, my world would snap back into focus. We tend to treat mental health like a common cold; you take a pill, the fever breaks, and you move on with your life. But after ten years of navigating this system, I’ve realized that medicine alone is rarely a cure—it’s just a stabilizer.
