When the pandemic forced mental health care online, a lot of people — patients and providers alike — assumed it was a temporary workaround. A stop-gap until things went back to normal.

When most people think of trauma, they think of a single catastrophic event — a car accident, an assault, a natural disaster. And they think of the classic picture of PTSD: flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, avoidance.

There's a debate that comes up regularly in mental health care — though it's one I think is mostly a false choice. The question is whether medication or therapy is the right treatment for anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD, or bipolar disorder.