Mental health · Politics · War · Accountability
The psychology beneath power.
PsychiatRick examines the psychology beneath politics, culture, power, masculinity, and the daily chaos of American life.
PsychiatRick
Mental health · Politics · War
Clear-eyed writing for complicated times.
Independent. Personal. Clinically informed.
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Writing, audio, and self-guided tools from one independent PsychiatRick project.
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Ideas with a pulse.
Trump Took This Soldier's Wife
Someone made the call. But what about the others? A story about policy, power, and the human cost left behind.
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Men Need to Start Helping Men
Women are exhausted, male loneliness is becoming dangerous, and a girlfriend is not a psychiatric treatment plan.
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Between Visits
Self-guided coping tools, daily check-ins, and meditation for the space between appointments.
Between VisitsBetween Visits is mental health support software, not therapy, diagnosis, medication management, or emergency monitoring. Human follow-up is highly recommended when symptoms persist, worsen, or impair functioning. If you may be in immediate danger, call 911 or 988 in the U.S.
How it fits
Support between appointments.
PsychiatRick does not provide in-person treatment. Between Visits is self-guided mental health support software for check-ins, coping tools, and meditation. Follow-up with your own human clinician is highly recommended when symptoms persist, worsen, or interfere with daily life.
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Illustrative images. The people shown are not actual patients or clinicians.
About the author
Rick Leach, MSN,
APRN, PMHNP-BC
Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Combat infantry veteran. Writer willing to follow the evidence where it leads.
Rick's work connects clinical knowledge with lived experience of war, trauma, masculinity, politics, and moral injury. PsychiatRick is where those threads meet without euphemism or easy answers.
Writing on this site is commentary and education, not individual medical advice. Public behavior can be analyzed, but public figures are not diagnosed from afar.