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Spread the light with Dr Devika B

Devika Bhushan, MD

18 episodes

5 months ago

Nzinga Harrison, MD, is a board-certified physician with specialties in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She is also the Chief Medical Officer and cofounder of Eleanor Health, an innovative mental health and addiction treatment company. Dr. Harrison holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine and sits on the Practice Management and Regulatory Affairs Committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has written a brilliant book called Un-Addiction th...

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Nzinga Harrison, MD, is a board-certified physician with specialties in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She is also the Chief Medical Officer and cofounder of Eleanor Health, an innovative mental health and addiction treatment company. Dr. Harrison holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine and sits on the Practice Management and Regulatory Affairs Committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has written a brilliant book called Un-Addiction th...

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Society & Culture,

Health & Fitness

Episodes (18/18)

Spread the light with Dr Devika B

Dr Nzinga Harrison's groundbreaking approach to treating addiction

Nzinga Harrison, MD, is a board-certified physician with specialties in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She is also the Chief Medical Officer and cofounder of Eleanor Health, an innovative mental health and addiction treatment company. Dr. Harrison holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine and sits on the Practice Management and Regulatory Affairs Committee for the American Society of Addiction Medicine. She has written a brilliant book called Un-Addiction th...

5 months ago

45 minutes

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Pooja Mehta on mental illness advocacy as a South Asian American woman

Pooja Mehta serves with me on the National Board of Directors at the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). She’s been a powerful mental health advocate since she was 19 and lives with anxiety with auditory hallucinations, depression, and lost her brother Raj to suicide in 2020. Hear from her on: - How she centers being a South Asian woman in her advocacy - What current suicide prevention efforts miss - An annual tradition in honor of her brother, Raj, to foster kindne...

1 year ago

32 minutes

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Ashanti Branch on redefining healthy masculinity

Ashanti Branch has over 20 years of experience in building healthy relationships in schools — he’s a pioneer in reforming education, youth mental health, and traditional masculinity. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ever Forward Club, a non-profit organization that takes students who are disengaged and dropping out to 100% graduation rates, 90% college enrollment, and 0% incarceration, using tools like the Taking Off the Mask workshop. Ashanti received the 2023 US Surgeon Gener...

1 year ago

44 minutes

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Corey Feist, Dr Mona Masood, Janae Sharp on health worker well-being

This month, in honor of the newly named Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18th, commemorating the day the President signed the Lorna Breen Act into law in 2022, I’m thrilled to feature conversations with three brilliant national leaders who are transforming health worker well-being: Corey Feist, JD, MBA, CEO and co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation, founded in 2020 to address the systemic drivers of health worker ill health and honoring Dr Lorna Breen, a frontline emerg...

1 year ago

56 minutes

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Dr Jessi Gold on optimizing well-being

I loved this awesome conversation on optimizing well-being with my friend, Dr Jessi Gold. She is now the first Chief Wellness Officer for the University of Tennessee System, though this was recorded before that — and a psychiatrist with expertise in mental health for college students, healthcare workers, and in the entertainment industry. She shares wisdom on what it looks like to optimize well-being at a workplace, how to be prevention-oriented, and some insights on stigma she didn’t realize...

1 year ago

45 minutes

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Dr Crystal Clark and Dr Nancy Byatt on the hidden costs of breastfeeding

Welcome to Season 2 of Spread the light with Dr Devika B. Here, we know that stigma festers in the dark and it scatters in the light. And this season will take that even further. We’ll dive into the ways that stigma shows up in culture, in norms, in policies, and in institutions — and how we can disrupt and rewrite that. To kick us off: In this powerful interview with perinatal psychiatrists Dr Nancy Byatt and Dr Crystal Clark, hear about what breastfeeding guidelines miss about the potential...

1 year ago

29 minutes

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Amy Brinkley’s journey with substance use disorder and mental illness

This episode features Amy Brinkley’s incredible journey — and how she uses her personal experiences with substance use and mental illness recovery to drive national change and support others to sustain recovery, especially after incarceration. Amy Brinkley is a nationally recognized leader in mental health and substance use recovery. Motivated by personal recovery experience and the suicides of three brothers and her mother’s overdose, Amy is dedicated to driving change through effective pe...

1 year ago

36 minutes

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Lara Burmeister's journey with depression

Lara Burmeister, MBA, is a first-generation German-American who has spent most of her career working in roles to combat climate change. She lives with depression. Hear about what Lara challenged herself to do to get through her darkest moments, her well-time and red flag toolkits, how depression changed her, and how she rebuilt her identity in its wake. Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about passive suicidal ideation and depression. — SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: Because s...

2 years ago

45 minutes

Spread the light with Dr Devika B

Dr Ade Osinubi's journey with hopelessness in medicine

Dr Ade Osinubi is a resident physician in emergency medicine, a documentary filmmaker, and photographer whose work focuses on telling the untold stories of minority populations. She recently created the documentary Black Motherhood Through the Lens, about four Black women's experiences with reproductive health in the US, recognized in Forbes and PBS. She has written for the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, and Glamour magazine on topics related to health equity. She received the 2022 National Min...

2 years ago

27 minutes

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Dr Justin Bullock's journey with suicidality and depression in medicine

Justin Bullock, MD, MPH, is a fellow in Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr Bullock is a passionate medical educator and an identity safety researcher. He is outspoken about his lived experience as a gay, Black, bipolar physician. Dr Bullock's work and story have been featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, Vox, and Forbes, among other places. This conversation was poignant — covering Justin’s journey from deep stigma to self-acceptance and radical open...

2 years ago

35 minutes

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Dr Jake Goodman's journey with anxiety and depression in medicine

Dr Jake Goodman is a psychiatry resident physician and global mental health activist with more than 2.1 million followers on social media. He is a two-time TEDx Speaker, member of the University of Georgia Alumni Association's 40 under 40, and a participant in the Healthcare Leaders in Social Media Roundtable Series for the White House. Dr Jake uses his platform to fight stigma and discrimination, and to empower those experiencing mental health challenges to seek help. His advocacy work has b...

2 years ago

41 minutes

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Dr Ahmed Hankir's journey with melancholia and elation in medicine

Dr Ahmed Hankir is a Lebanese-British-Irish psychiatrist with expertise by lived experience. He serves as the Lead for Public Engagement and Education at the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Mental Health and Human Rights, Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham University, UK. Dr Hankir is passionate about empowering and dignifying people living with mental health conditions and is the creator of the mental health-focused performing arts piece, The Wounded Healer. Tri...

2 years ago

38 minutes

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Geo Custodio’s journey as a non-binary transfemme person

Geo Custodio is a creative strategist, using both left and right brain thinking to help brands and corporations define their values and to build community. She has worked in tech, fashion, publishing and is currently a communications consultant in retail. She loves to paint, draw, and write. In her spare time, Geo is also Mom to seven dogs and two cats. Her gender identities are non-binary and transfemme — she is a proud transgendered person (pronouns: she/her, they/them). Trigger warni...

2 years ago

27 minutes

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Andy Dunn's journey with bipolar I disorder

Andy Dunn is an entrepreneur, author (of his memoir, Burn Rate), investor, and father. He co-founded the men's wear brand Bonobos and recently released his TED talk, Lessons from losing my mind: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_dunn_lessons_from_losing_my_mind/c?language=en Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about suicidality, depression, psychosis, hypomania, and mania. SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: First-person accounts of living with mental illness that aim to dis...

2 years ago

47 minutes

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Emi Nietfeld’s journey with foster care and PTSD

Emi Nietfeld is a journalist, mental health activist, and the author of Acceptance: A Memoir, a journey from foster care and homelessness to Harvard and Big Tech. As a journalist, she writes for places like The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Slate and is passionate about critiquing unrealistic expectations of “resilience” put on vulnerable youth. She lives in New York City with her family and stuffed animals. Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about childhood neglect, PTSD, ...

2 years ago

31 minutes

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Busting some common bipolar myths on World Bipolar Day

This year, in honor of World Bipolar Day, I got some friends together to bust some commonly held myths about bipolar disorder. Here are our truths: Myself, Dr Devika Bhushan, a pediatrician, public health leader, and equity and health changemaker: You can't tell from the outside who has bipolar disorder. Major General Gregg Martin, PhD, retired from US Army, grandparent, person with bipolar disorder, affirms: Mental health conditions are physiologically real — and are not due to weak...

2 years ago

12 minutes

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Brandon Staglin's journey with schizophrenia

Brandon Staglin is President of One Mind, where he channels his deep experience in communications, advocacy, and his personal recovery from schizophrenia to drive brain health research, services, and media. Trigger warning: this episode mentions suicidality and psychosis. SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: First-person accounts of living with mental illness that aim to dispel stigma and stereotypes and instead, spread hope and light. Because stigma festers in the dark and scatters in...

2 years ago

22 minutes

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Andrew Barr's journey with OCD

Andrew Barr is a founding partner of GreyMatter, a mental health-focused venture capital firm. Previously, he advised a range of mental health startups and non-profits. Before his work in the mental field, he was a co-founder of Prefer, a Benchmark-backed startup and a venture capitalist at Institutional Venture Partners. He has lived experience with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Trigger warning: In this interview, we talk about anxiety and OCD. SPREAD THE LIGHT WITH DR DEVIKA B: First-per...

2 years ago

32 minutes