Dr. Jessi Gold on Openness, Vulnerability, and the Medical Environment

Any encounter with a medical professional or clinician - whether that’s a family doctor, a psychiatrist, a therapist, or anyone else in the field of helping people - is, at root, a human encounter. And the person you’re talking to is just as vulnerable to mental health struggles as anyone else in society. In this candid and illuminating interview, Dr. Jessi Gold, author of How Do You Feel?: One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine, talks about her own mental health journey and the stigmas and challenges of her industry. Chapters (00:00:08) - Hope and Healing: Dr. Jesse Gold(00:01:45) - Dr. Gold on Drinking Multiple Beverages a Day(00:02:17) - How Do You Feel?(00:07:54) - In the Elevator With My Mental Health(00:15:12) - On Why People Are So Scared of Psychiatry(00:16:16) - Teaching Mental Health: How to Talk About It(00:23:46) - How to Get Through a Hard Month(00:26:44) - Post-Perfectionism: How to Get Over It(00:28:53) - Why Psychiatry Is For Me(00:31:13) - The Challenges of Starting a Mental Health Practice(00:33:24) - Dr. Gold on Changes to the NHS(00:35:38) - Hope and Healing: Dr. Jesse Gold's Podcast