When we feel helpless and hopeless, we may come up with the question: what’s the point? Why do we create goals, work hard, and keep going only to end up feeling unfulfilled and repeating it all over again? What exactly is the point of living?

My co-host, Dr. Patrick Kelly and I started a podcast! We talk about all things mental health from the perspective of two child psychiatrists. But not without a little play along the way!

Most of us have some understanding of what depression looks like. You are staying in bed all day, scrolling through your phone for excessive distraction, exhausted with just the thought of getting up, and spiraling down the bottomless pit of self-loathing. But there is another side of depression that we don’t talk about: anger.

Welcome! I am a child and adult psychiatrist trained in medicine, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy. But, thousands of hours of this work have taught me just a handful of important concepts in mental wellbeing, perhaps because simplicity is built on the ruins of complexity. I’d like to share them with you here, one post at a time.