crushing eggshells: where mental health meets medicine

Everyone thinks of a medical student as the perfect student, but meeting people like Lima shows us that there are many types of perfect. You be single teen mom, work to support your family, and still be a rockstar student and make it - and succeed - in medical school. Join in today's episode as we speak to Lima during her second year of medical and learn how she's able to overcome stigma and adversity while striving to be a role model for her children and those around her.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

Trigger warning: the following episode contians descriptions of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders. Listener discretion is advised. Yeah, I'm just gonna say - eating disorders suck. Like, they're not fun, and they just make the problems you're dealing with a lot worse. It also doesn't help when you spent 6 hours of the day half naked in a speedo, feeling exposed and in spotlight. So as you can guess, yeah, this second part is how being on medication and some other nonsense led to me developing an eating disorder and how that just really added to this fun mess that is mental illness. It's a lot, I am sure, but just let me reassure - I'm all good. I'm happy. I love everything and I love food. But for while, I mean, it just wasn't fun. But these things are real, and it's important to talk about them and give them life so that we can face them, and eventually, beat them. Let me know what you think. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

Trigger warning: the following episode contians descriptions of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders. Listener discretion is advised. So what goes in the mind of someone who just starts therapy? What are the reasons that some of us seek out help to work out our thoughts? What even are some of the thoughts that go on in our head? How do these thoughts become so annoying that they get in the way of everything and our relationships? In today's continuation of my own mental health journey during undergrad, I share with ya'll what I felt about starting therapy, as well as the thoughts that would go on in my mind that would make me feel isolated and alone, even when the world was trying to show me the opposite. Again, I must stress, eventually there is a happy ending - but what's life without some character development? Here's part one and look out for part 2 of Pills, Spills, and Friday Thrills.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

**Trigger warning: mental illness, addiction, substance abuse*** Couldn't get enough of Jen?? Well good thing there's a part 2! We close off our interview with Jen learning about some of the more personal demons she's has to overcome in her life, how they have made her into a better person, and how the experience will ultimately make her into a great physician - plus a lot more cool stuff and thoughts from her. If you haven't heard the first part, it is episode 3 of this season. Give it a listen, let me know what you think, and as always - Dream it. Believe it. Live it.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

Every wonder if you're too old to start medical school? Ever think its "too late" to jump in to the journey? Well, let's see what Jen, a first year DO student who started medical school at the age of 50 has to say about it! She was kind of enough to "zoom in" to the show today as our first interview of the season and the show, and it was such a pleasure and blessing to hear her story. So, tune in for part 1 where we learn about her journey (and hopefully the zoom audio isn't the worst), and make sure to listen to part 2!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

So what happens next? You know things were looking up for me at the start of college, but then things just got weird and I just didn't feel too good. I this last part of Cracking the Egg, where we see what thoughts and events led to me finally seeking out help, and why I keep talking about Mark. Hope you all enjoy, and be on the look out for the next part of this series soon. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

So what started it all? This is the first part of a series within a series in which I talk about my own personal mental health struggles during my first two years of undergrad at Southern Methodist University. This is part one of two where I describe the start of my college career, the thoughts that were going through my head, and I how eventually was in a position where I had to get help for the first time in my life. Freshman orientation, frat parties, being on a swim team and living my dream made for a fun start, but eventually, things can get a little hazy and a little hard. If you like this one, there's a second part to it, too.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support

Hello all and welcome to the start of the podcast "Crushing Eggshells: where mental health meets medicine." This podcast will be dedicated to talk about the intersections of mental illness within the medical field in a variety of capacity. The goal of this show is to showcase members of the healthcare field from a variety of backgrounds - including students - and discuss their experiences navigating their profession, any issues regarding their mental health that may arise, and how they cope with life's stressors. Being medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary, PA/NP - whatever! - this is a show where we talk about anyone with everyone to help come up with different solutions to problems that people in the healthcare field face while working to normalize these conversations. So, give this a listen, look out for the next one, and as always - Dream it. Believe it. Live it.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javi-ochoa/support