65. How Emotional Dysregulation Can Affect a Marriage with Dr. Diana Mercado

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER IN THIS EPISODE</span></p> <p><strong>Medicine:</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Getting medicated through medical school</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why she had 100-200 notes open</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why she talked to her patients for hours</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Loving the patients but hating the charting</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Marriage:</strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Taking deep breaths</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dating for 6 years...and telling him 2 years in.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What is Emotional dysregulation</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>ADHD</strong></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Why her hubby is her ADHD medicine</li> <li>Diagnosed in first semester in medical school</li> <li>Could not concentrate long enough to finish the tests</li> <li>Whole family, is loud, high energy, impulsive, </li> <li>I am the oldest daughter and should be the example...smart & perfect</li> <li>When her identity crisis began</li> <li>Why she went 8 years without medication as an attending </li> <li>How diet and exercise can help ADHD</li> <li>Underestimating the time it takes me to get things done</li> <li>Labile with your emotions (making the connections between your emotions and the actions)</li> <li>Living from a place of reactivity</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">TAKE HOME POINTS FROM Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh</span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Goi