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It\u2019s been two and a half months since I deleted the blog, so I owe all of you an update on\xa0recent events.

I haven\u2019t heard anything from the\xa0New York Times\xa0one way or the other. Since nothing has been published, I\u2019d assume they dropped the article, except that they approached an acquaintance for another interview last month. Overall I\u2019m confused.

But they definitely haven\u2019t given me any explicit reassurance that they won\u2019t reveal my private information. And now that I\u2019ve publicly admitted privacy is important to me \u2013 something I tried to avoid coming on too strong about before, for exactly this reason \u2013 some people have taken it upon themselves to post my real name all over Twitter in order to harass me. I probably inadvertently Streisand-Effect-ed myself with all this; I still think it was the right thing to do.

At this point I think maintaining anonymity is a losing battle. So I am gradually reworking my life to be compatible with the sort of publicity that circumstances seem to be forcing on me. I had a talk with my employer and we came to a mutual agreement that I would gradually transition away from working there. At some point, I may start my own private practice, where I\u2019m my own boss and where I can focus on medication management \u2013 and not the kinds of psychotherapy that I\u2019m most worried are ethically incompatible with being a public figure. I\u2019m trying to do all of this maximally slowly and carefully and in a way that won\u2019t cause undue burden to any of my patients, and it\u2019s taking a long time to figure out.