BEING.LAGOM 🧠

By HCPs, for HCPs
Our mission: Empower, Energise & Celebrate each one of you 🥰
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Being.Lagom team

[Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA @GrantHBrennerMD]

My path in mental health traces back to my pre-teen curiosity in a psychoanalysis-soaked New Jersey suburb, devouring Freud and Jung summaries from a mall bookstore. Medicine was always on the horizon—though if life had dealt a different hand, I might’ve gone the way of art or physics/computer science.

By my teens, I toggled between “scientist” and “psychoanalyst” as career dreams. Undergraduate studies in psychology (with a side of physics/computers), copious readings in philosophy of mind, neuroscience, and complexity theory, and struggles during adolescence and with significant adversity and loss—all laid the groundwork. I nearly committed to a PhD, but medical school’s call was louder.

After two transformative years in general surgery, psychiatry drew me to Mount Sinai in New York, then on to psychoanalysis and organizational psychodynamics at William Alanson White.

In 2010, I embraced transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)—a clinical breakthrough, sure, but more importantly, a chance to integrate interventional psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and neuroscience. Bridging perspectives is where the real richness lies.

Now, optimism feels more justified. Psychiatry’s tool kit keeps expanding: cutting-edge TMS, tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation), some forms of neurofeedback, personalized neuronavigation, fNIRS (functional near infrared spectroscopy) imaging, temporal interference for deep-targeting, focused ultrasound, closed-loop treatments, and promising if scary AI. The field’s finally catching up with the science—and patients are seeing the benefit.

Always looking forward—with roots firmly grounded in curiosity and care. Even as the world faces so many thorny challenges, with no clear path through.

#MentalHealthAwareness
#MentalHealthMatters
#EndTheStigma
#MentalHealthAdvocate
#HealthcareInnovation
#Psychiatry

[Dr.Dhruv Chauhan @DrDhruvchauhan]

In the past 3 days itself i received almost 20+ cases of harassed Doctors by senior faculty / Suicide issues and much more brutal !

These many messages of cries and hues everyday from different medical colleges makes me feel helpless .

The strong abuse of power and influence on the weak doctors by the HODs and senior faculties in the institutions are causing huge mental harassment and breakdown to uncountable number of doctors leading to suicides and is a wake up call .

@MoHFW_INDIA has failed its role miserably !

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

We've built toolkits similar to this : https://t.co/dE4x9e1EV2
For
-Burnout
-Anxiety
- Imposter Syndrome
-Existential Life Crisis
-Emotional Suppression
-Grief
-Moral injury

Still draft versions, any psychiatrists/psychologists out there want to review these goldmines for HCPs?

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Channel this energy when you need it 😌

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

@drpraveenpsy Med school glorified the rat race long before we entered it. But sometimes the most radical act is walking away. You can quit the grind, protect your peace, and still lead an impactful life. An MBBS isn’t a cage, it’s a compass. So many impactful careers out there! #notjustaMBBS

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

@drpraveenpsy Med school glorified the rat race long before we entered it. But sometimes the most radical act is walking away. You can quit the grind, protect your peace, and still lead an impactful life. An MBBS isn’t a cage, it’s a compass. So many impactful careers out there! #notjustaMBBS

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

🤘 it iz what it iz

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

*Who have passed psychometric assessments and exhibit decent amount of empathy and compassion
+ Common sense is optional

[merde @iSocioPathetic]

Positions of power in healthcare should be held by healthcare professionals only.

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Suffering in healthcare is like a hydra, and over the past 4 years we've only begun to (try to) sever its heads. There are deeper, more insidious wounds that fester in silence, often dismissed as "just part of the job."

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

Just a reminder that it’s okay to protect your time. It’s okay to set boundaries. It’s okay to say no.

In fact, this helps us prioritize our health, our creativity, and our relationships, and our ability to do this work.

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

@Docxab_ Not really. What shapes you more is who you became while surviving medschool.
Not the brand on your coat, but the ride-or-die friends who pulled you through 3 AM breakdowns, endless rotations, and a system that sometimes forgot we were human.
#MedSchoolRealities #BeingLagom

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Here’s the first look at our sticker pack! Would you use any of them? 👀

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

🩺 Calling all HCPs!
I'm creating a WhatsApp sticker pack just for us—healthcare pros—with a dose of humor and mental health awareness.
Got ideas? What phrases or images should be in it?
Let's co-create something that resonates!
#MedTwitter #HCPHumor #MentalHealthMatters

[Vyshnavi 𖤓 @drdesigurl]

Burnout doesn't happen from working too hard, it happens when you work on things that don't light you up

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Mental health is a pulse—check it daily, not just when it flatlines

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Call it what it is: commuting is transition therapy. Started using my drive to mentally file patient cases before getting home. "Today I helped 17 people. Work stays at work." Simple cognitive reframing that's saved my marriage. #WorkLifeSeparation #Severance

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Struggling with work rumination? Try this: designate a specific "worry chair" at home. ONLY allowed to stress about work while sitting there. Your brain adapts to the boundary. Mine got so bored of the designated worry time, it started problem-solving instead. #Neuroplasticity

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Last week I started stepping outside for 60 seconds of sunlight between complex cases. Vitamin D + perspective shift. Patient outcomes unchanged, but MY outcomes vastly improved. Sometimes the simplest interventions work best for the provider too. #MicroSelfCare

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Fellow HCPs: That moment between patients? Perfect for box breathing (4 in, 4 hold, 4 out, 4 hold). Activates your parasympathetic nervous system in 16 seconds flat. Started doing this last month and my patients can't tell I'm screaming internally anymore 😂 #HCPsanity

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

The real Hippocratic Oath:
First, do no harm to yourself.
Everything else is commentary.
#RadicalSelfCare

[BEING.LAGOM 🧠 @beinglagom]

Legacy isn’t in the hours logged.
It’s in the healer who outlives the system.
Plant trees you’ll never sit under.
#SustainableCare