Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈

Your Black, trans Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at UCSF. Views are mine|not med advice 🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

In 2023, I wrote about being a psychiatrist who lived with suicidal ideation and the need for our society to discuss suicidality openly to decrease stigma.

In April 2025, I wrote about the framework I used to notify others, create goals to keep me alive, cultivate self-love, and radically accept my suicidality when it arose.

In August 2025, I wrote about the framework I use to turn each and every suicidal thought from a seemingly insurmountable force into solvable components.

Today, we move forward in my narrative.

This time, I write to you all to share the four steps I use to navigate and continue my healing journey in the months after my suicidality goes into remission.

Honored to publish in @medpagetoday with my newest piece, “Living After Suicidality: A Physician’s Framework for Healing After Their Suicidality Goes into Remission.”

So much love and gratitude to @genevievefri for the stellar edits along with the thoughtfulness and care she put into collaborating on this article.

Link: https://t.co/ZtK1UoelpJ

🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@paganforge @TheAdvocateMag Hallo - I'm glad we found each other too!! And thank you!!!

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Six years ago, I wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine about taking back and finding my voice as a Black, gay person in academia.

Six years later, I have found that voice as a Black, queer person in America.

Honored to publish in @theadvocatemag with my newest piece:

“Why I’m Queer, Not Gay - And Why It Matters.”

https://t.co/PHseV1N0Ji

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@DrTraceyK @TheAdvocateMag

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@downstatedoctor @TheAdvocateMag

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@uche_blackstock @TheAdvocateMag

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@VinesMatthew @TheAdvocateMag Thank you too for writing your piece and starting a conversation :) <3

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

Responding to a recent New York Times guest essay, child and adolescent psychiatrist Chase T. M. Anderson explains why "queer" better reflects their identity, politics, and vision for LGBTQ+ liberation. https://t.co/zgpX8RqGK8

[Jack Turban MD 🧠 @jack_turban]

Sending love to trans kids who just want to play sports with their friends at school.

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@barb_harr @AAMCtoday Thank youuuuuuu

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Honored to be named the American Academy of Medical Colleges’ 2025 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellow (@AAMCtoday) for being an outstanding physician in America.

This one is for all of you, my younger self, and the kids I collaborate with whom I love so much.🌙🐦‍🔥💖🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

Keep fighting.

Keep fighting against racism.

Keep fighting against gerrymandering.

Keep fighting for that peaceful world.

Keep fighting.

We love you, everyone fighting for fairness and justice in Tennessee.

~ Love,

Your Black, queer child and adolescent psychiatrist.

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@PTrubetskov <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

In 2023, I wrote about being a psychiatrist who lived with suicidal ideation and the need for our society to discuss suicidality openly to decrease stigma.

In April 2025, I wrote about the framework I used to notify others, create goals to keep me alive, cultivate self-love, and radically accept my suicidality when it arose.

In August 2025, I wrote about the framework I use to turn each and every suicidal thought from a seemingly insurmountable force into solvable components.

Today, we move forward in my narrative.

This time, I write to you all to share the four steps I use to navigate and continue my healing journey in the months after my suicidality goes into remission.

Honored to publish in @medpagetoday with my newest piece, “Living After Suicidality: A Physician’s Framework for Healing After Their Suicidality Goes into Remission.”

So much love and gratitude to @genevievefri for the stellar edits along with the thoughtfulness and care she put into collaborating on this article.

Link: https://t.co/ZtK1UoelpJ

🌙💖🐦‍🔥🦄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦸🏽‍♂️✊🏽

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@GivenGrace1986 @AAMCtoday Thank youuuuu

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@IamCarrieagain @AAMCtoday Thank you for asking 💖💖💖💖💖

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@IamCarrieagain @AAMCtoday For other people, I ask them if there is one they want me to use more to help them feel seen and comfortable 💖🫂

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@IamCarrieagain @AAMCtoday There are days I feel more he, she, or they (or even depending on my vibe at the time) and so then I tell people 💖

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@usnehal @AAMCtoday

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@Gvantsa @AAMCtoday Thank you 💖💖💖💖

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@tmprowell @AAMCtoday Wouldn’t be here in this way without you 💖💖💖

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

@ZhealaQayyum @AAMCtoday 💖💖💖💖💖