Dr Stephen Lewellis

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: hello. Welcome to Beyond ADHD, a Physician's Perspective. I am Dr. Diana Mercado Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my adhd, but I now see it as a gift that helps me show up as a person. I was always meant to be both in my work and in my personal life.

In the past two years, I've come to realize, That I'm learning some of my beliefs and some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills.

Hello. Hello. I am so excited to be here today. I have a very special guest, Dr. Steven Le Leis and I'm Might have missed up, that please. Correct.

Dr. Stephen Lewellis: Yeah it's Luis. It's a hard one. All my patients get it wrong, so don't worry about it All ,

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Dr. Leis. And I think I messed it up again, but don't worry about it.

I'm gonna call him Dr. Steven . No worries him for today. He's in a and he's an amazing husband, of course, father, and he's trained in NYU and Stanford. He's a board certified. An investor and outside of his medical practice, he's passionate about spending time with his family and in strengthening the collective voice of physicians on social media, educating fellow physicians about personal finance and life.

Planning and investing in private real estate. As you can see, he's multi-passionate and I love this about him. And so today we're gonna have an interesting discussion about what is going on with him. He shared with me that he recently came to realization that he has a D H D diagnosis. And as you guys know, in my podcast, I've interviewed many female physicians and a few male physicians and we were just having this discussion about, I would love to talk to everybody because it's so important to have the perspective of different voices cuz their matter, our stories matter and a is a spectrum.

So I'm so excited to have him here today. Would you share with us what's been going on in your life lately?

Dr. Stephen Lewellis: Yeah. Can I call you Diana? Is that okay? Yes, of course. Great. Or Dr. Diana I am very grateful to be here. First of all, it's really nice to be on your show and I'm really impressed with what you've built so far.

And I'm happy to tell you a little bit about myself. But as with a, we can get a little time tracking. A little warped for us. If I'm going too far, just cut me off and go down a line of questioning. But again, my name is Dr. Steven Luis, and I live in a relatively small town in central Wisconsin, wasa, Wisconsin.

I'm a practice here as a board certified medical dermatologist. Hi, . And I am at home as well with my wonderful and very supportive and lovely wife and two small children. So we have that in common. I have a three-year-old boy and a seven month old girl. So lot of changes recently, and my job was relatively new.

I've been there for a year and a half. Finished residency in 2019 right into the pandemic with kids and jobs. So a lot of changes happened at once and a lot of challenges, and that led me down a road slowly and a little bit painfully, but finally a road to really addressing some underlying mental health issues that.

Suspected maybe in the past, but never had the never was intentional enough to address them or was brave enough or whatever it was until it really reached a tipping point in 2022. Essentially, that was the year that I took charge of my mental health, and I've already seen dramatic changes just from that probably about a six month journey since I first asked my primary care doctor to help me with what I was

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: struggling.

He said hi to my daughter who just came and jumped in . And so if you guys are wondering who is he saying hi to ? Yeah, sorry. No. I, no, I'm just clarifying . But she's walking away. . But I wanted to ask you what do you mind sharing what you were struggling with? I, you sai