Screeners and tools

Check how you're doing

Pick what sounds like you. Each opens the matching questionnaires.

• Depressed, down, or emptyPHQ-9, MADRS-S
• Anxious or worriedGAD-7, SPIN
• Manic or unusually energeticMDQ, ASRM
• Affected by something traumaticPCL-5, TSC-40
• Obsessive thoughts or compulsionsY-BOCS, ROCS (soon)
• Struggling with food or my bodySCOFF, EAT-26
• Attention, focus & organizationASRS, SR-WRAADDS, CPT, Stroop, SDT, SAT, CRT
• SleepISI, ESS, STOP-BANG
• Alcohol & substancesAUDIT, CUDIT-R, DAST-10
• A psychedelic or profound experienceMEQ-30, EBI, CEQ
• Personality & a general check-inDASS-21, IPIP-NEO, PAI-SF

Tools inside the notes

Interactive tools that live inside a note, next to the evidence they're built on.

• Suicide preventionWhat prevents suicide, what lies underneath, and a safety-plan builder. For people who are struggling and the people who love them. Mood & anxiety
• Explore four FDA labelsSimtriyo, Azstarys, Qelbree and Onyda XR: dosing, trials, side effects, warnings, interactions and blood levels. ADHD & attention
• Five years of ADHD approvalsEvery approval and major change since 2021, filterable by what kind of “new” it is. ADHD & attention
• ADHD medication cost explorerWhat pharmacies pay for 18 ADHD medicines at common doses — generic vs brand, month and year. ADHD & attention
• The ADHD medicine cabinetHow every ADHD medication acts at the synapse — prefrontal cortex vs striatum. ADHD & attention
• Parts MapperMap your inner parts around the Self, draw how they relate, and save it as an image or PDF. Therapy
• Self-energy checkThe 8 C's right now, and Self-qualities vs Self-leadership lately. Therapy
• Emotional processing styleTen questions on how you tend to handle feelings, with where to start. Therapy
• Two-minute emotion check-inBody, name, what's underneath, need, next step. Therapy
• A gentle Hakomi experimentSettle, hear a probe, and notice what shows up — all by itself. Therapy
• Body-listening reflectionEight dimensions of body awareness, drawn as a flower. Therapy
• Which medicines carry a suicide warning?Eighteen medicines and classes, boxed or not, and why. Psychopharmacology
• The psychiatry wikiA field guide to psychiatry: conditions, pharmacology, rating scales and a mechanism lab, with receptor “bloom” drawings. Psychopharmacology
• Signposts inwardSmall experiments in paying attention, walked like a path through the woods. With the stories and science in Ten signposts out of the woods. Mind & perception
• Build a safety planFifteen minutes. Save it as a PDF, print a wallet card, or text it to someone you trust. Suicide prevention
• New medicine: what's urgent?Tap what you've noticed since starting or changing a medicine and see whether it can wait, needs a call today, or needs help now. Suicide prevention

Health tools, beyond psychiatry

These are outside my specialty. I built them because people ask me about these things as a physician, because I find them useful myself, and because the science is fun to share. Each one is built on published evidence and cites it, and none of them replaces your own doctor, who knows your history and can examine you. If a number here worries you, take it to them.

• Heart Risk NavigatorYour blood pressure and cholesterol, what they mean for your heart, and a 10-year risk calculator built on the AHA PREVENT equations. Cardiology
• VO2maxmaxxingThe fitness number that predicts the most, how it falls with age, a fitness-age calculator and a 12-week plan. Exercise
• The Lifespan AtlasYou don’t age all at once: aging, fitness and healthspan, organ by organ and decade by decade. Aging
• Burn ClockHow long your skin can take today’s sun, and what UV actually does once it gets in. Skin & sun