Welcome to Imani state of minds, a podcast about mental health, culture, politics, and whatever else I think you need to know.

I'm Dr. Imani Walker, and you may know me from married to medicine, Los Angeles, or my YouTube series, Mother and Daughter,

with my mother, of course.

I am a working psychiatrist in the city of Los Angeles, but most importantly, I'm a mother,

a daughter, and a black woman living in America.

During the current state of the world, I know we're all searching for ways to protect

our peace and mental health.

I want to make sure everyone has a place and a space to help with both.

So I am a psychiatrist, as I said, and one of the reasons I really got into psychiatry

is because I have mental health issues myself.

I have been diagnosed with major depression. I have anxiety disorder.

I have pre-menstrual dysphoric disorders. And I just want to big up Prozac real quick,

because it's been keeping my mental state sane. And I also, TMI, but we're going to get into TMI this whole show, I actually have

IBS. And so all of those diagnoses actually are regulated to a very strong, in a strong way with

serotonin. And so I take Prozac to basically help calm all that down and I feel

great. So that's a little bit about me. I really do hope that this show can be a resource for all

you guys listening to help figure out how to navigate your own journey. If you don't know,

you're going to find out really quickly that I'm not your average psychiatrist,

and this is not going to be a typical mental health show.

We're going to laugh.

We're going to keep it really real, and we're going to learn how to better protect your mental state.

And because everything in life is so much more fun with a partner, I want to introduce you to my co-host and co-pilot on the podcast, Megan Thomas.

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