Yasin Choudry, M.D.

Yasin Choudry - Addiction from a self-medicatation lens Scroll through addiction content on social media long enough and you will find people using the phrase "addiction is self-medication" to mean completely contradictory things. One creator uses it to say your drinking makes sense once you understand your trauma, so be gentle with yourself. Another uses it to dismiss twelve-step as a cult and push ketamine journeys. Others treat it as a permission slip: if the substance is

From the First Page to the Last The book is out on Amazon. Radical Recovery Book on Amazon If you want to know what’s inside before you dive in, read on. I wrote Radical Recovery: A Holistic Approach to Mental Health over many years, and people often ask what it covers. The following is a quick tour of the whole book, spanning from the opening scene to the final appendix. While it won’t replace reading the full text, it will give you the shape and spirit of the book so you ca

Yasin Choudry MD To the Clinicians Who Already Know Something Is Missing This essay is not for patients, though patients are welcome to read it. It is addressed to the psychiatrists, therapists, social workers, psychologists, and trainees working inside the mental health system who have been quietly carrying something that does not have a name in their training. You know the feeling. A patient sits across from you, and you make the diagnosis, prescribe the treatment, and do e