Sarah Durant is a therapist providing psychotherapy in Portland, Maine. She helps her clients through a variety of therapies including Gottman Couples' Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), and Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). This episode covers how to address and heal from trauma. We share our thoughts on the rigid definition of PTSD, and how we would both want to see this diagnosis evolve. We discuss various techniques and coping strategies we...
Nov 20, 2023•46 min•Ep. 100
Megan Haughton, DO is in her final year of family medicine residency. This is her four time on the podcast, and you can listen to her other content on Ep. 2, 24, and 80. She openly shares her experiences with ADHD, OCD, and depression. Megan is passionate about finding a healthy balance between being a family medicine physician and personal life. Megan and I have shared countless laughs together, and you will be sure to enjoy this episode! Dr. Logan Noone is a psychiatry resident at Rowan Univer...
Nov 07, 2023•36 min•Ep. 99
Michael Johnson is an attorney specializing in physician employment contracts. He produces educational content on Instagram: @PhysicianContracts. This episode discusses how using a contract attorney can help reduce physician burnout and promote wellness. #physician #doctor #employment #contract #contractattorney #legal #lawyer #employmentlaw #employmentcontract #wellness #burnout Dr. Logan Noone is a psychiatry resident at Rowan University. He hosts 2 podcasts, "Talk Mental Health with Dr. Logan...
Aug 21, 2023•56 min•Ep. 98
Ryan Osler discusses his loss of his infant daughter, loving someone with a complicated pregnancy, substance use issues, and the stress of being a doctor. He shares how this adversity shaped his journey from a software engineer towards medicine. In this episode, we discuss philosophy around death, relationships, and health. Dr. Osler graduated in my class at Pacific Northwest University, and is currently in his last year of training in family medicine. Check out my other podcast! Podcast: "The P...
Aug 05, 2023•53 min•Ep. 97
Greg Bogart, PharmD, BCPP, discusses his passion for Movember, a charity that raises awareness for men's mental health, testicular cancer, and prostate cancer. Greg teaches psychiatry and pharmacy residents about psychopharmacology. We share our thoughts on how men's completion of suicide differs from other genders. Greg shares about side effects of typical antidepressant treatment. We discuss male mental health challenges and how testosterone is used and misused. We talk about challenging topic...
Nov 23, 2022•46 min
Dr. Rachel Shmuts, DO is a board certified Consult Liaison psychiatrist, with a particular passion for women's mental health, peri- and post-partum depression. She currently serves as program director of the psychiatry residency program at Rowan University, where I am a PGY2. We discuss how to improve the learning experience of residents and medical students. We discuss spreading ourselves too thin by taking on too many responsibilities. We talk about the emotional toll of being a psychiatrist, ...
Nov 13, 2022•53 min
Dr. Richard Arroyo joins yet again to discuss our intern year coming to a close, and our final days on internal medicine. We discuss what it is like to be an off-service resident on intern medicine. We discuss the challenges of dealing with this potentially intense and uncomfortable field of medicine. We talk about how this learning opportunity helped solidify concepts we learned in medical school. We discuss how we grew as residents but also humans on this rotation. If you enjoy Richard and I c...
Jun 20, 2022•27 min
Dr. Todd Levin is Chief of Medicine at Jefferson Health - New Jersey, medical director of an LGBTQ+ primary & specialty care clinic in Haddonfield, NJ. He's a trained infectious disease specialist, and also serves on the resident wellness committee. He discusses his experience with mental health challenges as a first year resident right after graduating medical school. He discusses coping mechanisms he uses to manage the stress of being a physician, and imposter syndrome. We talk about the d...
Jun 01, 2022•40 min
Christopher Huff, LCSW, and Jason Goslin, PA, discuss their work at Haddonfield Primary & Specialty Care, An LGBTQ+ Affirming Practice. Christopher discusses this population's unique mental health challenges, and barriers to treatment. Jason manages the medical care of these patients, including patients undergoing gender transformation therapy. This conversation is fascinating and eye opening. LGBTQ+ population is at higher risk of suicide, substance abuse, self harm, and depression. These t...
May 11, 2022•37 min
Dr. Ben Greene is a 1st year resident in neuromuscular medicine, but his road there certainly wasn't smooth. He shares his experience having to go unmatched, deal with the SOAP process to scramble for a residency spot, and still found himself without a position at the end of this week. He discusses what he learned from failing one of his board exams. Ben shares how he continued to search for various positions and continue his goal of being a doctor and healing patients. Ben ended up at a residen...
Mar 16, 2022•53 min
My great friend, and first year general surgery resident, joins to discuss the whirlwind of emotions and stress we felt exactly a year ago before MATCH week. Match week is when 4th year medical students find out where they will be starting their medical residency in various specialities. Each year, there are more medical school graduates than residency spots available. 4th year medical students have spent nearly a decade towards this goal of placing into their chosen specialty. The process of ma...
Mar 10, 2022•38 min
I've known Jon Press for over 8 years through our advocacy efforts at Bipolar Magazine and other blogging. Jon comes on to discuss his life with bipolar disorder, and how his journey intertwines with transitioning to a gay man later in his life. Jon shares his experience with psychiatrists and also newer, sometimes unconventional approaches to mental illness, including ketamine and marijuana.
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 11 min
I want to be able to prescribe some kind of physical therapy for emotional pain. Michael Jeanfarve, physical therapist faculty at Stanford Health Care Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Program, discusses the mental aspects of his patient care. We discuss his teachings to his patients with chronic pain. We discuss themes we've seen in patients with comorbid physical and emotional illnesses. He also talks about how he often has to educate patients about motivation to continue completing physi...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 4 min
Starting residency is hard. I'm still not even used to introducing myself as "Dr. Logan Noone." I talk with my great friend, Mark Donne, about how I started going back to therapy when I started residency. This transition from medical student to intern physician has been wild, challenging, exciting and stressful. I talk about what it's been like to have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder for ten years. I talk about the different approaches for finding a therapist with cost savings in mind. We t...
Sep 19, 2021•37 min
My great friend and psychiatry resident, Richard Arroyo, discusses his experience failing COMLEX Level 1 after his 2nd year of medical school. This exam is thought to be "the most important test you take in medical school." Richard shares his self-doubts, shame and depression he felt going through this experience. He talks about how his medical school intended to help him, but ended up acting more like a barrier at times. Richard found a way to pass COMLEX Level 1 on his second try. Next, he was...
Jun 27, 2021•34 min
Dr. Tom Eglin is an Emergency Room physician, participates in wilderness search and rescue, and serves as a regional assistant deal at PNWU. He shares path towards the ER, starting in internal medicine. He discusses managing stress and burnout in medicine. We talk about the unique emotional challenges of the emergency room. We discuss coronavirus and changes in mask policies.
Jun 11, 2021•42 min
Dr. Katheryn Lauer was my preceptor of my hospice rotation during my fourth year of medical school. We discuss why hospice should be a required course for medical students. Dr. Lauer explains misconceptions around hospice and palliative care, and how we could improve the system as a whole. We chat about physician assisted death, or death with dignity legislation.
Apr 25, 2021•36 min
Richard Arroyo, my fellow classmate at PNWU, and I discuss the whirlwind of emotions leading up to match day, the time we finally find out where are next stage of training is. Richard and I are both pursuing psychiatry, and potentially could even end up at the same program. We talk how the supplemental offer and acceptance program (SOAP) requires an incredible control of emotions, and delayed grieving in a sense. We discuss the immense fear we feel starting residency on July 1. Richard and I wro...
Mar 13, 2021•28 min
Dr. Tony Lee is a board certified neurologist and completed a fellowship in neurophysiology. He completed his residency training and fellowship at University of New Mexico, where he also served as a professor. We discuss dementia, how to improve brain health through socialization and exercise. We chat about the pathophysiology of headaches and migraines. Lastly, we chat about transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy (TMS), and why this treatment can be helpful for depression and other mental he...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Mehri Coulter (@so_bipolar) is a bipolar disorder advocate, wife, and mother of three. She has created photography exhibits that display symptoms of bipolar disorder. She openly discusses the loss of her 16 year old nephew, who lost his life to suicide from bipolar disorder as well. She shares other experiences of grief from suicide. She discusses her how pharmacogenetic testing helped her find psychiatric medication that helped her tremendously. We both share our view on how living openly with ...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Megan returns to the show for her 3rd episode! She lives with ADHD and OCD, and has been featured on Ep. 2 & 24. Today, we both share about recent experiences with depression. We talk about how the return of depression is strange and different. While we both have developed coping strategies and tools, we talk about how we still both struggled with elements of depression. We talk about coronavirus has impacted our mental health, and how we're handling the stress of matching into residency nex...
Feb 03, 2021•54 min
Starting to meditate is weird and awkward. I talk about how I got started, and using mantras. I talk about setting expectations for meditation, so you don't feel like you're "not good" at meditating. Meditation helped tremendously with my bipolar disorder and challenges with sleep. I share how meditation has helped improve my academic performance in medical school, and manage all the stress.
Jan 24, 2021•21 min
Daniel took a medical leave during his first year of medical school from mental health challenges. He discusses his experiences with depression and anxiety, and why he decided to take a break from medical school to regroup. He shares changes he made in his life, and making his faith and religion a priority again. He also talks about the unique financial obstacles of taking a leave from medical school.
Dec 12, 2020•54 min
Neelou first came on the podcast for episode 3, the most downloaded episode to date! She discussed how panic attacks and anxiety caused her to leave medical school. On that original episode, she walks us through the journey of making her way back to health and medical school. Today, I follow up with her, 2 years after that recording. Neelou shares how she continues to manage her anxiety and navigate the stress of a medical student.
Nov 25, 2020•32 min
Monica is a 2nd year medical student who I met playing basketball years ago. She has lived with depression, but in a variety of situations. She attributes her first severe episode of depression after she was accidentally poisoned and spent days in the ICU. She talks about how her mind changed after this trauma. She then discusses her experience with depression after the birth of her second child, and how COVID is making this obstacle all that much more challenging. Monica wants the audience to u...
Nov 10, 2020•54 min
This is the story of a NCAA All American runner who shares her experiences with bipolar disorder. She talks about dealing with bulimia nervosa, and depression. She shares how she feels her bipolar disorder helped her athletic performance. We discuss our different relationships with sleep and exercise. We talk about coping strategies we've both developed to manage bipolar disorder. Sarah also shares her path in nursing school, and her plans for the future to become a psychiatric nurse practitione...
Nov 04, 2020•57 min
Bruce Dechert has over 30 years of experience working in substance abuse treatment. We met while working at a recovery center together, and I think of him as a mentor. Bruce enjoys focusing on family dynamics, and customizing patient's needs in joint sessions with their loved ones. We discuss addiction, recovery, COVID, and communication.
Oct 10, 2020•52 min
My mother, Rochelle Clementson, comes on to discuss where we got the idea for our children's book, "We ALL have Something." We talk about how my friendships growing up influenced the creation of this story. My mother was an elementary art teacher for decades, and helped make this story appropriate for kids age 5 - 12. We discuss the challenges we faced, and our hope for how this story helps your family.
Oct 03, 2020•25 min
Jeremy, a 3rd year medical student, discusses his challenges as an international student in the midst of COVID. Jeremy gives the audience a glimpse of his experience as a black, gay man. We talk about Jacob Blake, Black Lives Matter, and how white people can talk about race relationships. Jeremy talks about being gay, and how that has impacted his mental health. We discuss how religion impacts the LGBTQ community. We talk about the positive and negative effects of social media. This episode was ...
Aug 29, 2020•2 hr 24 min
My former roommate, and one of my closest friends, Sean Tobler, comes on the podcast to chat all things 2020. We discuss Coronavirus, the 2020 elections, BLM, healthcare policy and more. We talk about managing mental health as a salesperson, especially during a severe recession. We had a blast on this podcast, and I look forward to Sean coming back on the show.
Jul 08, 2020•46 min
