Brad Stulberg

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1,230 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 31 Mar

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Brad Stulberg: Six Mental Health Principles Entrepreneurs Need to Beat Burnout | Mental Health | YAPClassic · 6 Feb 2026 podcast

I define a problem.

I do research.

I interview experts to try to get to a solution.

And then I also ask myself, well, how might I be wrong?

What are some other solutions that could work, too?

So I never realized it at the time.

I certainly wasn't thinking to myself, oh, this is good training to be a consultant, or excuse me, in consulting to be a writer.

It's only something I saw in hindsight.

Yeah, it definitely did, as you mentioned, blindside me from nowhere.

I had no prior history with depression or anxiety, at least not that I knew of.

And it was like a switch in my brain got flipped in a devastatingly wrong direction.

I was fortunate to have such a stark experience between before and after that it didn't take me long to get help.

I was very quick to go to my partner, Caitlin, and say like, something is wrong with my brain.

This is scary.

I need help.

And I think that in my story, the pivotal moment was getting help and getting a diagnosis of obsessive compulsive disorder, because I thought I had some kind of like unrelenting depression, but it actually is a fairly common theme in OCD to become obsessed with

the potential to hurt yourself or to hurt others and constantly have these intrusive thoughts and then try to make them go away and then the thoughts get worse and it's just this vicious cycle.

And I was fortunate enough to see a wonderful therapist and psychiatrist that fairly quickly diagnosed me with OCD, began treating me based on the evidence for OCD

And though at the time it felt like forever, each minute felt like a day, each day felt like a year, it was probably about six to eight months where I was really in it before I started to see out of the dark forest and get to the other side.

And during that time period, as you said, I began to just reevaluate, well, what does success even mean?

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