Mental Health in Healthcare: therapy in medical school, social media, pre-shift anxiety, integrative/holistic approach to anxiety

Episode 5

• Dealing with mental health concerns in medical school

• Quinn answers:

  • Would it be weird to ask med schools in interviews how they support mental health?

  • Do you think there’s a place in medicine for people with pre-existing anxiety/depression -

  • Do medical schools offer therapy for students?

• Heather discusses how being a content creator has affected her mental health

• How the pandemic has changed systemic beliefs regarding mental health

• Heather speaks on pre-shift anxiety and realistic tools to cope

• Making mistakes as a new grad

• Leaving the bedside/nightshift

• Heather skims the surface on the integrative medicine approach to anxiety

  • HPA axis dysregulation

  • Compromised gut integrity

  • Nutritional deficiency

Resources:

• Aritzia sweatsuit (lol)

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• The integrative/functional approach to anxiety:

  • What is EFT (emotional freedom technique) tapping? https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping

  • article: https://chriskresser.com/functional-medicine-approach-to-anxiety/

  • “Brain maker” by David Perlmutter, MD: https://amzn.to/3VYE35t

  • Find an integrative medicine practitioner: https://www.ifm.org/find-a-practitioner/

• Supplements:

  • L-Theanine/GABA https://amzn.to/3MZEMj0

  • Stress Calm homeopathic tablets: https://amzn.to/3N1bbpb

  • Magnesium powder: https://amzn.to/3zaSsls

  • Night time cortisol support: https://amzn.to/3eYETyA

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