Pathways through The Shrink Network
Five paths people actually take through the network. Each pathway is an ordered sequence of properties, with a specific job to do at each step. Not every pathway ends in care. Every pathway starts with understanding.
These pathways match the same five pathways on ShrinkNetwork.com, so if you're moving between properties you'll see the same names, the same order, and the same next step every time. Shrinkopedia is one stop on each pathway. Where an entry here has taken a topic as far as an encyclopedia should, follow the pathway forward.
Panic and anxiety
From telling panic apart from anxiety to understanding it to deciding about care.
- Shrinktionary Learn the difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack.
- Shrinkopedia Read a full overview of panic disorder as a condition.
- AnxietyResource See what panic does to your nervous system.
- AnxietyResearch Read what the evidence says about treating panic disorder.
- Unstuck Try an in-the-moment tool to steady yourself.
- shrinkMD Consider a panic reset with psychiatric care.
Depression
From a word that fits to seeing the symptoms to a next step you can take.
- Shrinktionary Learn what anhedonia means, the loss of pleasure in depression.
- Shrinkopedia Understand major depressive disorder as a condition.
- DepressionResource See the everyday symptoms of depression.
- PsychiatryRx Learn how SSRIs work as a treatment.
- Unstuck Take one small action to get moving again.
- shrinkMD Consider care when you're ready.
A medication question
From what a drug is to what it treats to talking with a prescriber.
Overthinking
From naming the loop to a system for working with it.
- Shrinktionary Name the loop, rumination.
- Shrinkopedia Understand rumination as a symptom.
- ShrinkDaily Read the daily concept on rumination.
- shrinQ Work with the rumination loop as a pattern.
- Unstuck Use a reset tool when you're stuck in your head.
- shrinkMD Start care if overthinking keeps taking over.
Attention and phone use
From the daily concept to friction to the pattern underneath.
Under every pathway
The pathways are shaped by the four functional layers of the network: Understand (reference and editorial reading), Apply (practical tools you use in a moment), Care (clinical psychiatric services through shrinkMD), and Profession (writing about the field itself on shrinkiatry). Not every pathway visits every layer. See The Shrink Network for the full map of properties and how they fit together.