(P)Steroids & the Psyche: The Problems Nobody Put on the Prescription Label

Well, thank you, Adam.

I'm happy to be here.

I appreciate the invitation.

I'm really excited you're here because I think we're going to hit on something that may not necessarily take center stage when we're talking to patients about the wide array of chronic or even acute inflammatory diseases, but definitely chronic would be a top billing.

And that would be the psychiatric or psychological complications when it comes to one of our historical and continuing to be workhorses in topically or even systemically managing inflammation, depending on the disease state.

And of course, that is corticosteroids.

And they are one of the most commonly prescribed drug classes across medicine.

Yet again, I think the psychiatric implications are under-discussed.

Maybe it stems from gaps in even education from the med school or even residency level.

You know, why do you think, to maybe start things off, why do you think mental health effects remain such a blind spot in the everyday prescribing culture overall?