What PsychiatryRx is
PsychiatryRx is an independent reference publication about psychiatric medications. It explains how these medications work, what to expect from them, and the questions worth asking, in plain language a person can follow on a hard day.
It is not a clinic, a pharmacy, or a product. Nothing on the site is for sale. It is a place to understand a medication, not a place to obtain one.
Why it exists
Search for a psychiatric medication and the results tend to fall into two camps. On one side are clinical drug databases, accurate but written for prescribers and pharmacists. On the other are forums and wellness content, easy to read but unreliable and often alarming. There is very little in the middle: accurate, calm, plainly written, and reviewed by a psychiatrist.
That middle ground is what PsychiatryRx is for. It is written for people who have just been handed a prescription and aren't sure about it, people partway through treatment wondering whether what they feel is normal, people thinking about stopping, and the partners, parents, and friends trying to understand a medication well enough to help.
Who reviews it
Every guide on PsychiatryRx is medically reviewed by Shariq Refai, MD, MBA, a board-certified psychiatrist. He reviews each page for clinical accuracy before it is published, and his name and the review date appear on the page.
Dr. Refai's work focuses on anxiety, overthinking, and modern psychiatric care. He is also the medical editor of AnxietyResource.org, DepressionResource.org, and AnxietyResearch.org, and the founder of shrinkMD, an independent multistate telepsychiatry practice. That affiliation is disclosed here and on our disclosure page, and it is the reason PsychiatryRx is careful about how it handles anything to do with care.
How it is published
PsychiatryRx is published by shrinkMD Publishing and is editorially independent of any clinical practice. It carries no advertising, sells nothing, and earns no referral or affiliate revenue. For how the site is funded and how its affiliations are handled, see our disclosure page. For how the content is written and checked, see our editorial process.