Welcome to Imani's state of mind, 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, Angeles or my YouTube series, mother and daughter.

I'm 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.

Like I mentioned last week, I grew up in Harlem and my block was like our own little community.

We made sure everyone on the block was good.

And that's the same I approach I want to have with this show.

I want to make sure everyone has a place and space to keep up with their mental health.

We need a moment or two to get our minds right.

And I want you to know that we are all in this together.

I have my own issues to deal with.

So listen, I became a psychiatrist because I wanted to help people. I wanted to help people who looked like me. I wanted to help people who oftentimes didn't have a voice. Sometimes I have patients who literally are catatonic and can't speak. So I love dealing with patients who, I guess, you know, even to other

psychiatrists, these are patients that they would consider kind of difficult. I love doing all of that.

And I especially love dealing with difficult cases when it has to deal with folks that look like

me, other black folks, other brown folks, other disenfranchised people.

But I wanted to be a psychiatrist also because I have issues. I got depression and anxiety.

I am dealing with things day to day like everybody else out there listening right now.

So I just wanted to let everybody know that we're all totally in this together. Me too. So 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. Hi, Meg. Hey, girl. Hey. Hey. How are you? Now look, okay, I sound a little

under the weather because I got these dirty kids passing

me their school germs.

Oh, no.

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