Stop Ignoring Mental & Emotional Health (w/Dr. Lucy McBride)

Published: June 23, 2021, 4:38 p.m.

It\u2019s no surprise that mental and emotional health are directly related to physical disease. Here\u2019s what we can do about it, starting with primary care.\nLucy McBride, MD, is a practicing internist in Washington, DC, with two decades of experience. A trusted and recognized voice in patient care, she is also a Bloomberg New Voices fellow, a healthcare educator, mental health advocate and healthcare disruptor working to increase awareness of the intersection of mental and physical health. She is Princeton, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins trained. Learn more about her and\xa0sign up for her awesome newsletter here.\xa0Follow her on\xa0Twitter,\xa0Facebook,\xa0YouTube, &\xa0Instagram.\nFull video here.\n\xa0\nTopics & Timecodes:\n0:00\xa0Intro: Mental health and its connection to overall health\n6:34\xa0The nature of the mind-body connection\n12:24\xa0Re-personalized, re-humanized medicine and a patient example from Dr. McBride\n14:47\xa0The mental health toll from COVID-19, our response to COVID-19 and its impact, and well-intentioned public health messaging that is counterproductive\n25:30\xa0Healing by owning our human emotions and challenges\n31:57\xa0Connecting with your doctor as a human through modeled behavior\n35:42\xa0COVID revealed the vulnerability of our society, how can we re-envision what true well-being means post-pandemic\n43:29\xa0The role of humor in healthy relationships and how vulnerability creates a space for connection/authenticity\n50:15\xa0Periodic Table of Human Emotions, helping us understand and define our unfiltered emotions\n55:16\xa0Extending permission to talk about our emotions to patients, how medical students should reframe their instilled beliefs about primary care, and how these two factors contribute to Health 3.0\n59:43\xa0The nature of authenticity and the resistance it can trigger; how to own being yourself\n1:14:01\xa0The politicization of COVID-19, locus of control during the pandemic, and a discussion about multiple reasons why some people may still wear masks after getting vaccinated\n1:21:19\xa0Looking at the risk of Covid restrictions and its impact on kids\n1:28:39\xa0Lessons learned from Covid, identifying what we can control, and closing thoughts\n\nVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email:\xa0https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd\nSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me:\xa0paypal.me/zdoggmd\nMore about Dr. Z:\xa0zdoggmd.com/about-z\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices