264: Navigating ADHD and Maternal Mental Health with Dr. Sarah Oreck of Mavida Health
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Sarah Oreck, co-founder and CEO of Mavida Health, to discuss the importance of maternal mental health care and, specifically, all things ADHD. Dr. Sarah shares what Mavida Health does and why they are filling a gap in the mental health space, why ADHD is a big part of their support platform, and how ADHD is often misunderstood, starting in childhood. She shares lifestyle techniques to help work with ADHD symptoms, why it seems like so many mothers are struggling with ADHD right now, and why it’s so important to know how your hormones affect both your physical and mental health. We talk about executive functioning and why it’s so important, how to communicate your mental health needs to your partner, and why task paralysis happens. Finally, she discusses the relationship between ADHD and overstimulation, and the struggle of being jealous of people we perceive as “making it work” better than we are.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- What is Mavida Health and what do they do for maternal mental health?
- How ADHD is often dealt with in childhood and misunderstood
- On the differences between ADD and ADHD
- Where I am with my ADHD right now and why I’m ready to go on medication
- On lifestyle techniques to help work with ADHD
- Why it seems like so many mothers are struggling with ADHD right now
- On knowing your own body and being aware of how your hormones affect your mental and physical health
- What is executive functioning and why is it important?
- On the various symptoms of ADHD
- How to communicate your mental health needs to your partner
- On task paralysis and why it happens
- On the relationship between ADHD and overstimulation
- On being jealous of people we perceive are “making it work” better than we are
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:03.0 | Wow, am I excited for today's episode because this is absolutely one of the most |
| 0:10.0 | requested topics by you all. |
| 0:12.3 | And this one really dives to the fuck in. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm not going to lie, you might walk away from this being like, is Cam okay? |
| 0:17.6 | I am, but I will also say, I mentioned in this conversation that I felt pulled to talk to |
| 0:23.8 | my doctor about my own situation, and it's been an ongoing conversation about my ADHD and what we |
| 0:29.7 | wanted to do. And after this conversation, I actually did start medication. I promise I will continue to |
| 0:36.0 | share that journey. But as this episode is released, |
| 0:39.9 | I'm on week one of my medication. And I'm not in a place yet where I am ready to talk about |
| 0:47.2 | anything I'm noticing or any of that information. I will, I promise. But I just wanted to give |
| 0:54.0 | that update that I did, in fact, but I just wanted to give that update that I did, |
| 0:55.1 | in fact, start medication. So I know I've talked a lot about ADHD on my platform. I think it's |
| 1:01.0 | wildly obvious when you're consuming my content that my brain is constantly in 10,000 places. |
| 1:05.8 | But it seems that a lot of this community is going through something similar, specifically those who feel like |
| 1:15.0 | their ADHD was exacerbated in motherhood because my god, mine was. Today we are speaking with |
| 1:20.3 | Dr. Sarah Oreck, who is one of the co-founders of Mavita Health. She is a trained medical doctor, |
| 1:26.6 | specializing in reproductive psychiatry and practices |
| 1:30.0 | as a therapist and prescriber. She focuses on whole body care and encourages patients to |
| 1:35.6 | prioritize sleep, movement, breath, and relationships. She has worked in therapy for 12 plus years |
| 1:41.3 | and she loved it so much that she decided to become a psychiatrist along the way. |
| 1:47.1 | We touch on what Mavita Health is in the beginning of this episode, but for those of you who are not |
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