Some of the people who revolutionized psychiatry struggled with psychiatric symptoms of their own,

starting with Freud and Jung.

Welcome to the Carlisat Psychiatry podcast, keeping psychiatry honest since 2003.

I'm Chrisaken, the editor-in-chief of the Carlott Psychiatry Report.

And I'm Kelly Newsom, a psychiatric MP and a dedicated reader of every issue.

In April of 2024, we released a series on wounded healers, interviewing psychiatrists, therapists, and nurse practitioners who live with their own mental illness,

bipolar, addiction, ADHD, panic, and schizoaffective disorder.

When I set out to do those interviews, I expected to find a deep well of empathy,

a richer understanding of the disorders that they treat.

And I did, but I also found something else.

These clinicians were not satisfied with the status quo.

They knew what it's like to live with lingering symptoms and persistent side effects,

and they went the extra mile to make sure that didn't happen to their patients.

From intake to emergency calls, they set up their practice in patient-friendly ways. They knew how mental illness can hide

behind a wall of shame and disorder, symptoms like suicide, trauma, mania, addiction, even side

effects that people keep secret so as not to disappoint us.

They understood that patients don't always tell us what we need to know, so they probed deeper,

asking more questions. They did all the stuff that we all ought to be doing. They just did it

very well.

That Wounded Healer series has become one of our most popular series, and today we have

a CODA. These are the wounded researchers. Like the clinicians we interviewed, they are not satisfied

with the status quo. They aren't even satisfied with doing their best with what we got.

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