Overloaded, Exhausted, and Ready for a Reset: 3 Doctors Give Their Best Advice

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

If you’re exhausted, barely keeping it together, and quietly wondering when you’ll feel like yourself again… this episode is your lifeline. Maybe you’re the one who keeps the house running. The one everyone calls in an emergency. The one who knows takes care of everyone including medications, the bills, doctor visits, and the schedules. The one who stays up late searching for answers, and gets up early to make sure everyone else is okay. You don’t complain. You don’t slow down. But you’re running on fumes. And no one sees it. You feel invisible. Like you are losing yourself. Like you’re going through the motions in a life that used to feel like yours. Mel is talking to you in this episode. Whether you’re raising kids, managing a household, supporting aging parents, a sick family member, or all of the above, taking care of others can slowly wear you down and make you feel like you don’t even know yourself anymore. In this powerful and deeply validating conversation, Mel sits down with three world-renowned experts, all of whom are doctors as well as caregivers, to give you the truth, the tools, and the hope you need to finally come up for air. You’ll hear from: -Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, Harvard physician and stress researcher, on why chronic caregiving stress is not your failure, it’s a public health crisis -Dr. Pooja Lakshmin, psychiatrist and bestselling author, who’ll teach you how to set guilt-free boundaries and reclaim a sense of control over your life - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, physician and bestselling author, whose deeply personal story will show you how to stop disappearing into caregiving, and start living again This episode is not about pushing harder. It’s about finally pulling back in a way that actually helps. You are not alone. You are not failing. And you are not here to disappear. So press play, and let this episode take care of you for once. For more resources, click here for the podcast episode page. If you liked the episode, you’ll love the full episodes with each of the doctors interviewed today: Dr. Aditi Nerurkar: If You Struggle With Stress & Anxiety, This Will Change Your Life Dr. Pooja Lakshmin: Focus on Yourself: 3 Signs You’re Giving Too Much & What to Do About It Right Now Dr. Rangan Chatterjee: Change Your Body & Your Life in 1 Month: 4 Small Habits That Actually Work Connect with Mel: Get Mel’s #1 bestselling book, The Let Them Theory Watch the episodes on YouTube Follow Mel on Instagram The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram Mel's TikTok Sign up for Mel’s personal letter Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes ad-free Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:08.6	I have a question for you.
0:10.6	When's the last time you truly felt like yourself?
0:14.0	And the reason why I'm asking you that is because I am getting, I got them right here,
0:17.8	you can hear just a stack of emails, email after email from listeners
0:21.7	just like you who are writing and feeling exhausted, disconnected, numb. I mean, emails that say
0:29.6	things like, I feel like I'm losing myself a little more every day. No matter how hard I try,
0:35.9	I'm always behind. Does that sound familiar? Well, here's what else
0:40.2	you're telling me about yourself. You're busy. I mean, you're waking up before everybody
0:45.8	else in the house and immediately what's happening. You're up in your mind and you're triaging the day.
0:51.1	You're going through like, okay, the kids and my parents, and then I got to do this,
0:54.4	and then I got to do this, because you have to. It's your job to take care of your kids,
0:59.1	or your parents who are getting older, or your partner who isn't doing their part, or the
1:03.4	dogs, or the cat, or maybe all four or five of them. And that means managing medications,
1:08.6	driving to appointments, handling the bills, cooking the meals, advocating with doctors. I mean, how much time do you spend on the phone with doctors and insurance companies? Have you stopped to think about that? And from what I can see based on the emails you're sending in, the reason you feel so low is not because you're failing. It's because you're caring for everyone else and no one's caring for you.
1:30.5	Well, your friend Mel, I want this to stop. Today, this episode is for you.
1:36.2	If you're a caregiver, whether that means you're caring for kids of any age or aging parents
1:40.7	or you're caring for a spouse and you're juggling all of that while holding down a
1:44.4	job or managing your own health or keeping the house together, I want you to take the time to listen
1:49.7	today. Because I'm bringing you three of the most experienced medical experts that I know. I track
1:56.0	them down to be here for you. And they're going to give you the real doable tools. And you're also going to feel
2:02.3	all these insights that are going to make you feel seen and validated and a little bit more
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