Hope Springs Eternal with Dr. Julia Wood

This week on the pod Eric is joined by Dr. Julia Wood, a board-certified psychiatrist. 

Dr. Wood received her M.D. at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and completed residency at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital psychiatry residency program. She worked at McLean Hospital and also as an Instructor at Harvard Medical School before moving to Tennessee in 2012.

She is a mom and a partner at Knoxville Psychiatry located in Knoxville, TN, where she specializes in treating mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and postpartum. 

Dr. Wood is a column editor for the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and a member of the Tennessee Chapter’s board of directors of Postpartum Support International. And if all of that isn’t impressive enough - she is also Eric’s psychiatrist. 

In this episode, Eric and Dr. Wood discuss: 

• the difference between psychologists and psychiatrists
• the challenges with mental health treatment, and finding the right therapist and therapies 
• how and why we are breaking down the stigma around mental illness 
• some of the challenges of the modern world and how they relate to mental health stresses
• self-preservation as a parent and how to look for help when your children seem to be struggling with anxiety and other mental health issues 
• what Dr. Wood finds rewarding about her job 
• and a lot more

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