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Episode 2: You Can't Out Medicate Trauma.
In this episode, we talk about the hard truth we don’t say enough in psychiatry: you can’t out-prescribe trauma.
We dive into what it actually looks like to help patients navigate trauma — beyond SSRIs, beyond quick fixes — and the delicate balance of supporting someone’s healing without absorbing their pain as your own.
We unpack:
Why medication alone isn’t trauma treatment
The emotional labor of holding trauma stories all day
How providers unintentionally take work home
PTSD from healthcare itself — and how it quietly fuels burnout
This episode is about boundaries, moral injury, and the cost of caring for people in crisis.
Because trauma doesn’t just live in our patients.
It can live in providers too.
And if we don’t talk about that?
We burn out pretending we’re fine.
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By mskinnerqIn this episode, we talk about the hard truth we don’t say enough in psychiatry: you can’t out-prescribe trauma.
We dive into what it actually looks like to help patients navigate trauma — beyond SSRIs, beyond quick fixes — and the delicate balance of supporting someone’s healing without absorbing their pain as your own.
We unpack:
Why medication alone isn’t trauma treatment
The emotional labor of holding trauma stories all day
How providers unintentionally take work home
PTSD from healthcare itself — and how it quietly fuels burnout
This episode is about boundaries, moral injury, and the cost of caring for people in crisis.
Because trauma doesn’t just live in our patients.
It can live in providers too.
And if we don’t talk about that?
We burn out pretending we’re fine.