PsychiatRick explores the intersection of mental health, politics, culture, and power through the lens of a PMHNP, combat veteran, and bluntly curious observer of American dysfunction.
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Healthcare Runs on Diesel Too
Rick Leach, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC | PsychiatRick | October 4, 2026
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Why Are We Always Worried About His Future
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When Asking for Help Can Cost You Your Career
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I’m Tired of Being Told to Calm Down
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The Grief of Watching Your Country Become Something You Hate
There’s a particular loneliness in hearing someone you love defend something you know is cruel. You remember that person helping a neighbor, checking on you when you were sick, teaching a child to be kind. Then you hear the explanation for...
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Rick, is a combat infantry veteran, democratic socialist, Puerto Rican \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf7, and board certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner writing about mental health, culture, trauma, power, and the psychiatric undercurrents of American politics
ENRAGED citizen, radical social worker, humanist, atheist, activist. Staunchly against BOTH Zionist parties. I believe in REVOLUTION to depose this fascist regime. My grandfather died fighting Nazis and I will NEVER give up!
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