Dr. Micaela

well hello party people welcome to our stream today um to kick us off i'll start with our traditional disclaimer that nothing in our time together today is intended to be medical or therapeutic advice this is for informational and entertainment purposes only and if you do feel like you need to seek professional help i encourage you to do so

Um, that being said, I am Dr. Michaela.

I am a licensed clinical psychologist and Dr. K had the audacity to take a vacation.

And so I am your friendly neighborhood substitute teacher coming in to hang out with y'all for a bit today and hopefully provide you with some helpful information.

As a licensed clinical psychologist, I actually specialize in working with young people.

So kids, teens, young adults, they like to call those transition age youth because kids are going through or folks are going through all sorts of transitions once they hit that legal age of adulthood and try to figure out what comes next in life.

However, in the course of my career, I've also worked with adults and not so much the older adults.

So a broad range of experience and exposure to all the things that we as humans go through.

Because a lot of my career has focused on people who have a lot going on, so people with more complicated mental health pictures or people with more severe forms of mental health conditions, I have actually seen a misrepresented number of neurodivergent folks in my clinical practice.

And so what that means is that I do have kind of a specialty vibe around the neurodivergent aspect of humanity.

And so love to layer that on to some of the conversations that we have traditionally around mental health.

That being said,

Very little of what I talk about when I'm talking about neurodivergent people is not related to all of the humans.

And so if you don't identify as neurodivergent, that doesn't necessarily mean that the things that we talk about aren't going to be helpful for you today.

So that being said, we're going to get started with our first post.

And let's pull this up with bigger font.

All right.

So I think this is what y'all are here for.

Do you feel significantly better on a night of poor sleep?

Weird question, but I only had about five hours of sleep last night and I felt more alert.