When we last left our hero, she had just concluded that her existing psychiatric care was not serving her and that she needed to make a switch. She got a referral from her new therapist, but would she be able to schedule an appointment soon? Would the new psychiatrist be supportive of her mental health goals? Would Jerk Brain further attempt to sabotage her plans? Find out now!
I met with my new psychiatrist for the first time yesterday. I liked her immediately. She’s engaged and insightful. She agreed that we need to take a fresh look at my medication regime. The first step is for me to start tapering off the Prozac and Wellbutrin in tandem. So, today, I’m at 60mg of Prozac a day, down from 80mg. For the moment, we are going to keep the Wellbutrin as it is, because it’s unwise to make too many changes at once. I should have a sense by Friday if I’m having an adverse reaction to the decreased dose, but my fingers are crossed.
It’s a new day.
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From history major, with side quests in Medieval Studies and chemical engineering, to nonprofit finance leader, Big 4 tax partner, technologist, researcher, and now co-founder of Divine, nothing about my career has been linear. The throughline has always been systems: financial systems, organizational systems, technological systems, and human systems. I have an MBA in Operations and Supply Chain Management and a PhD in Organizational Leadership Psychology, and I’ve spent my career trying to understand how complex systems shape people’s choices, opportunities, wellbeing, and sense of belonging. Today, my work sits at the intersection of psychology, technology, human-centered design, and digital trust. I am co-founder of Divine, an open-source, decentralized social video app built to put creativity back in human hands and replace doomscrolling with joyscrolling. Divine is part of a bigger question I care deeply about: how do we create online spaces that support safety, creativity, identity, and belonging without defaulting to surveillance, extraction, or control? At Divine, I wear a lot of hats across engineering, finance, operations, and strategy, while helping shape the app’s trust, safety, and values work. I focus especially on teen online safety, human-generated content, participatory design, and healthier relationships with technology. I am a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt University’s Department of Computer Science, where I worked with Dr. Pam Wisniewski’s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab. I continue to write, speak, and research at the intersection of online safety, digital trust, decentralized technology, and youth wellbeing. I was named a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Data Integrity in 2023. In 2025, I had the honor of serving as President of Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Consulting Psychology. I also live with major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. In 2020, I took a leave from PwC to focus on my mental wellness, and I now speak and write openly about mental health, especially in the workplace and in relation to digital wellbeing. This blog, Seriously Jerk Brain, chronicles much of that journey.
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Seriously, Jerk Brain?! 
Dear Lizzie,
I’m sending prayers for peace in your new day.
~ Cynthia
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