
Spread the light with Dr Devika B
Welcome! We feature 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 the light. ||| I'm your host, Dr Devika Bhushan, a pediatrician, public health leader, and equity and health changemaker. In 2022, I served as the Acting Surgeon General for California. I also have lived experience as a woman of color, a parent, a person with bipolar disorder, and an Indian-American immigrant to the US by way of the Philippines. ||| Join our transformative well-being newsletter community — with written versions of interviews like this, along with deep dives into evidence-based trends in health, innovation, and culture: www.askdrdevikab.substack.com/about and watch video versions of our conversations here: www.youtube.com/@drdevikab
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Ashanti Branch on redefining healthy masculinity

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Dr Jessi Gold on optimizing well-being

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

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

Lara Burmeister's journey with depression

Dr Ade Osinubi's journey with hopelessness in medicine

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

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

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

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

Andy Dunn's journey with bipolar I disorder

Emi Nietfeld’s journey with foster care and PTSD

Busting some common bipolar myths on World Bipolar Day

Brandon Staglin's journey with schizophrenia

Andrew Barr's journey with OCD
