Renegade Psych

Join me and Ellie Jay in this episode tackling the systemic over-diagnosis and over-medication in American psychiatry. Starting with the argument that generalized anxiety disorder isn't a valid diagnosis at all — it's a symptom, not a disease, and pharmaceutical companies exploit that nonspecificity to sell drugs to large swaths of the population who technically meet the criteria. The host draws a sharp contrast with schizophrenia, which has a consistent course of illness, predictable symptom progression, genetic markers, and clear treatment response — the kind of diagnostic validity that GAD completely lacks. He then traces how the same playbook was applied to ADHD: Adderall was literally rebranded from Obetrol (a failed 1960s weight-loss amphetamine) under the marketing slogan "ADD for all," and today the US prescribes 90% of the world's amphetamines to 4.5% of its population.

The conversation moves into the clinical dangers of jumping to medication too early. The host warns that prescribing an SSRI to a young person who actually has undiagnosed bipolar disorder can trigger a manic episode or suicide attempt — a risk supported by hundreds of legal cases against SSRI manufacturers. He advocates for mood stabilizers like lithium as a safer first-line approach, and highlights Finland's Open Dialogue program, which relies on social intervention over medication and achieves dramatically better outcomes than the US system. He also details the under-discussed consequences of SSRIs, including sexual orgasm dysfunction in 35% of short-term users (and 2/3 to 3/4 in long-term users) — a staggering figure when the patients are teenagers just beginning their sexual lives.

The episode closes with a philosophical throughline about how the mind automatically locks onto anything that provides immediate relief — whether it's an amphetamine, a benzo, or a new relationship — and how that binary thinking blinds patients and prescribers alike to long-term consequences. The host argues for an "off-ramp" approach: when you prescribe a medication, you should simultaneously plan when and why you may need to stop it, educate patients that psychiatric drugs (for the most part) manage symptoms rather than cure disease, and resist the cultural promise of a quick fix. As he puts it in terms of indications for psychiatric medication, "this is not an antibiotic for an infection."

Chapter Timestamps

# Timestamp Chapter Title 1 3:20 Anxiety Is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis 2 4:10 Why Schizophrenia Is Actually a Valid Diagnosis 3 6:10 How Pharma Sells Drugs for Nonspecific Symptoms 4 6:40 Can Early Treatment Prevent Full-Blown Disorders? 5 7:13 Finland's Open Dialogue: Fewer Meds, Better Outcomes 6 8:56 The SSRI Trap for Undiagnosed Bipolar Patients 7 12:00 Why Lithium Should Come First 8 12:54 The Adderall Origin Story: Diet Pill to Epidemic 9 15:23 Three Proofs the ADHD Boom Is a Marketing Phenomenon 10 18:30 How Pharma Targets Children 11 20:22 Why Japan Doesn't Have an ADHD Epidemic 12 21:08 Remove Before You Add: A Different Approach 13 25:28 When Meds Go Wrong and Patients Can't Get In 14 34:39 Why Clinical Trials Don't Match Real Practice 15 37:51 The Placebo Overdose That Nearly Killed a Man 16 38:50 The Legal Trail SSRIs Left Behind 17 43:21 SSRIs, Sex, and Teenagers 18 50:23 The Off-Ramp: Planning the Exit Before You Start 19 53:59 The Quick Fix Culture Is a Lie 20 55:30 "This Is Not an Antibiotic": Setting Realistic Expectations

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Dr. Jim Phelps — psychiatrist, educator, and founder of Psychoeducation.org — joins Dr. Ethan Short for a wide-ranging conversation about lithium, one of psychiatry's most powerful yet underutilized tools. They explore Dr. Phelps' unlikely path to becoming a lithium advocate (he didn't use it once during residency), the striking clinical evidence for lithium's anti-suicide effect at doses as low as 150mg, and why a substance that costs pennies a day may outperform a $125,000/year Alzheimer's drug. The discussion also tackles the uncomfortable reality of research funding bias, the difference between lithium carbonate and orotate, and what to do when the evidence — and your own enthusiasm — might be leading you astray.

Beyond lithium, the conversation digs into the fundamental question of what bipolar disorder actually is. Dr. Phelps reframes bipolarity not as a binary diagnosis but as a "paint pigment" that colors mood disorders across a spectrum, tracing its roots through genetics, inflammation, metabolism, circadian rhythm, and reward sensitivity. He and Ethan also share candid clinical stories — from a patient who stopped thinking about suicide within days of starting lithium, to a puzzling case where switching from carbonate to orotate caused a dramatic regression in rigidity and inflexibility.

The episode closes with a question Dr. Phelps finds humbling: of all there is to know in psychiatry, how much do we actually understand? His answer — and his critique of how the DSM chops up what may be a single phenomenon into comorbidities — is a fitting end to a conversation defined by intellectual honesty, curiosity, and a willingness to challenge dogma when the evidence points elsewhere.

Timestamps

0:00 — Intro & disclaimer

1:12 — Who is Dr. Jim Phelps? Challenging psychiatric dogma

3:06 — From never using lithium in residency to becoming its advocate

5:56 — Short-term relief vs. long-term sustainability: lithium as prophylactic

8:02 — Lithium's anti-suicide effect: the clinical evidence

10:43 — The risk-benefit framework: when low risk means you don't need an RCT

13:25 — The 2025 Harvard paper: lithium deficiency and Alzheimer's

16:05 — Press warnings against lithium ("don't eat vegetables")

18:21 — Personal experience: lithium orotate and the anti-herpes effect

20:04 — Lithium orotate vs. Lecanemab: $125K/year vs. pennies a day

23:44 — Bias in research: who funds the science?

27:25 — Placebo, belief, and the Kobe Bryant analogy

30:57 — Clinical puzzle: carbonate vs. orotate in autism/OCD patients

34:57 — The mystery of how lithium enters the brain

37:52 — Lithium orotate: thyroid, renal safety, and common sense psychiatry

42:32 — What is bipolar disorder? The "big five" causes

46:37 — Reverse engineering lithium: GSK-3 beta and neuroprotection

48:59 — Epigenetics, Cheetos, and the butterfly memory experiment

51:35 — Beliefs changed over 20 years: what survives the test of time

56:10 — "What percent do we know?" & closing thoughts

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

ACT Therapist Dr. Jessica Borushok: Stop Fighting Anxiety—Change Your Relationship to It:

In this episode of Renegade Psych, psychiatrist Ethan and co-host Ellie Jay examine the Lindsay Clancy case, in which a Massachusetts mother experiencing severe postpartum mental health struggles tragically killed her children. They discuss how Clancy's symptoms evolved over months following the birth of her third child, beginning with anxiety and insomnia and escalating into intrusive thoughts, sleep deprivation, and psychosis. Ethan walks through her extensive medication history — multiple SSRIs, benzodiazepines, and antipsychotics prescribed by a rotating cast of providers, including nurse practitioners — arguing that possible bipolar-spectrum misdiagnosis and SSRI-induced manic reactions may have worsened her condition rather than helping. The conversation highlights the difficulty people have conceptualizing psychosis, noting that the conscious mind can be effectively "shut down" during florid episodes, making it nearly impossible for those who haven't witnessed it to understand how someone could act so far outside their character.

The discussion then broadens into systemic critiques of American healthcare: 15-minute appointment slots that leave no time to build trust or gather collateral information and the deep disconnect between specialties like psychiatry, OBGYN, and endocrinology. Ethan makes a compelling case that estrogen's dramatic post-pregnancy drop likely plays a significant role in postpartum psychosis, citing studies showing estradiol treatment resolving psychotic symptoms in women with critically low levels — yet this approach remains underexplored due to the inability to patent natural hormones and the financial disincentives that follow. They close by calling for a healthcare system that prioritizes patient care over profit, with better integration between specialties and more time invested in understanding each patient's full clinical picture.

Timestamp Topic 1:58 Introduction — Ethan welcomes Ellie Jay to discuss the Lindsay Clancy case 3:58 Understanding psychosis — How could someone become so impaired they act against their own character? 5:46 The spectrum of psychotic states — Losing awareness and the "glazed look" of florid mania 12:10 Postpartum psychosis statistics — 1 in 25 untreated women with postpartum psychosis will kill their child 12:28 Why society can't face psychosis — The fear that this could happen to anyone, and the urge to "other" those affected 24:06 Lindsay Clancy's timeline — Birth of her third child and the onset of symptoms 29:46 The tragedy — January 24th: Clancy kills her children and attempts suicide 34:18 Nurse practitioners in psychiatry — Training gaps, time constraints, and culture of fear in prescribing 38:50 Hormones and psychosis — The overlooked role of estrogen fluctuations in postpartum mental health 39:10 Estrogen as a mood stabilizer — The dramatic post-pregnancy estrogen crash and its psychiatric implications 43:32 Research on estradiol treatment — 1999 and 2000 studies showing estrogen resolving postpartum psychotic symptoms 46:46 Systemic disconnection — How specialty silos in US healthcare leave critical gaps in patient care 50:02 Closing remarks — Call to action and contact information

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

ACT Therapist Dr. Jessica Borushok: Stop Fighting Anxiety—Change Your Relationship to It:

In this episode of Renegade Psych, the host speaks with Dr. Jessica Borushok ("The ACT Therapist"), a clinical psychologist and ACT trainer, about shifting from symptom control to values-driven living by building psychological flexibility. They discuss how Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT) explain anxiety, trauma triggers, and the mind's tendency to form symbolic networks that fuel rumination and avoidance. Dr. Borushok breaks down practical ways to notice "hooks," distinguish automatic thoughts from chosen cognitive behaviors, and decide when problem-solving is useful versus when it becomes unhelpful mental avoidance, using tools like metaphors and small committed actions. They also explore perceived vs actual control, how clinicians get stuck in outcome-focused rigidity, the mixed role of diagnosis and medication depending on function, and why she started a YouTube channel to make ACT concepts accessible.

00:00 Support the Channel 00:26 Medical Disclaimer 00:59 Meet Dr Jessica Bach 02:00 Her ACT Origin Story 05:28 Why ACT Clicks 07:49 RFT Explained Simply 11:52 Using RFT in Sessions 14:11 Modern Minds and Threats 19:48 Complaining and Rumination Loops 20:50 Hooks and Problem Solving 24:22 Lemon Metaphor for Rumination 26:35 Avoidance and Addiction Reframed 30:38 From Bad Dad to Values 33:15 Committed Action in Real Life 35:46 Process Over Outcomes 37:09 Stories Shape Behavior 37:25 Process Over Outcomes 38:32 Control and Panic Skills 41:29 Therapist Stuck Moments 45:14 From Knowing to Feeling 49:12 Medication and Diagnosis Nuance 55:05 Why Start YouTube 01:01:49 Evolving Clinical Thinking 01:03:26 Medical Causes First 01:06:15 How Little We Know 01:08:14 Closing and Call to Action

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Hey folks, I'm trying something different by posting my full audio episodes on all non-YouTube platforms monthly instead of weekly. You can still see the video with graphics on my YouTube channel, which will separate each full-length interview into appropriately titled segments for more concise viewing. This month, I'm talking again with James Greenblatt, MD and psychiatrist who specializes in an integrative (or functional) approach to psychiatry. Dr. Greenblatt is openly critical of the current shotgun-treatment-approach to mental health, throwing medications and other treatments at conditions without first obtaining more information to decipher potential root causes of things like OCD, addiction, anorexia/eating disorders, bipolarity, depression, anxiety, and more. Dr. Greenblatt has been a critical advocate for the increased use of lithium supplementation to treat lithium deficiency and both of us felt vindicated by the August 2025 Harvard Alzheimer's study, which, in our clinical opinion, is icing on the cake of evidence that lithium supplementation has a clear and obvious role in Alzheimer's prevention and treatment with a phenomenal benefit:risk ratio.

Pop on over to our YouTube channel and subscribe and join for membership if you're interested. And, if you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! Check us out on our socials #RenegadePsych and if you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych.

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Hey folks, I'm trying something different by posting my full audio episodes on all non-YouTube platforms monthly instead of weekly. This conversation is with Antonio Nardi, MD, and we discuss the immoral and aggressive marketing of SSRIs, overpromised in terms of efficacy and safety profiles, which led to the near-dissolution of use of the MAOI class of antidepressants, which are significantly more effective than SSRIs in treating depression. We also talk about the underutilization of lithium, and how to appropriately use benzodiazepines in clinical practice and find the balance between creating dependence/withdrawal cycles AND using them when they're indicated for short-term or intermittent use. What I see in clinical practitioners is that older docs/providers UNDERESTIMATE the risks of addiction and younger professionals tend to OVERESTIMATE the risks and UNDERUTILIZE this very effective (in the short-term) tool of psychopharmacology. I want to point out EPISTEMIC HUMILITY - knowing what you don't know, as a KEY FEATURE of my talk with Dr. Nardi, and I have so much respect for that being at the heart of his clinical practice philosophy. ENJOY!

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join me as I read a monologue by a 3rd-year DO student (Pikeville, KY), Elizabeth Lukens, about ways to secure unbiased and unattached funding in order to remove financially motivated entities from designing studies and interpreting data sets in a way that is biased towards their ultimate financial profitability goals. In Elizabeth's mind, there are better ways to independently decipher the truth by promoting evaluators disconnected from potential bias to explain how the data and methodology should be interpreted.

Pop on over to our YouTube channel and subscribe and join for membership if you're interested. And, if you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych.

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Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course, lithium. If you're looking for a polished conversation high on professionalism, keep looking. If you're looking for an unfiltered, in-your-face appraisal of the disastrous consequences of poor psychiatric management, then you're in the right place. Enjoy this multi-part series, and if you're a provider, don't fall victim to the FANTASIES OF UNDERSTANDING REALITY and for God's (or Allah's, or Buddha's, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's) sake, USE MORE LITHIUM, though IT IS NOT A PANACEA... and for God's sake, do your research on these new anti-amyloid therapies like Lecanemab and Donanemab (Lequembi and Kisunla). Dr. Berner harps on the importance of their extortionate cost, but I think they offer a POOR BENEFIT:RISK ratio with a high side effect burden and low likelihood of efficacy.

Pop on over to our YouTube channel and subscribe and join for membership if you're interested. And, if you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych.

Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course, lithium. If you're looking for a polished conversation high on professionalism, I'd keep looking. If you're looking for an unfiltered, in-your-face appraisal of the disastrous consequences of poor psychiatric management, then you're in the right place. Enjoy this multi-part series, and if you're a provider, don't fall victim to the FANTASIES OF UNDERSTANDING REALITY and for God's (or Allah's, or Buddha's, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's) sake, USE MORE LITHIUM!, though Dr. Berner reminds us in this segment of the conversation that LITHIUM IS NOT A PANACEA!!!

Pop on over to our YouTube channel and subscribe and join for membership if you're interested. And, if you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych.

Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course, lithium. If you're looking for a polished conversation high on professionalism, I'd keep looking. If you're looking for an unfiltered, in-your-face appraisal of the disastrous consequences of poor psychiatric management, then you're in the right place. Enjoy this multi-part series, and if you're a provider, don't fall victim to the FANTASIES OF UNDERSTANDING REALITY and for God's (or Allah's, or Buddha's, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster's) sake, USE MORE LITHIUM!

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Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at [email protected] and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website.

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