Dr. Samir Parikh, a psychologist, discusses navigating anxiety, depression, and more. Topics include mental health as a medical condition, contrasting psychology and psychiatry, biopsychosocial approach to mental health, rising cannabis usage impacts, understanding sadness and depression, occasional alcohol usage, substance abuse recovery challenges, treating personality disorders, and cyberbullying.

Guests Jordy Cohen and Samir Parikh, members of the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week Education Committee, discuss their careers as physician-scientists, their inspiration for pursuing nephrology, and share advice for trainees. They also discuss the excitement for Kidney Week 2023, upcoming sessions on environmental health and the body's pressure sensing mechanism, the connection between adiposity and obesity, and the future opportunities at Kidney Week 2023.