Spiritual Cleansing with Dr. Oxana Ormonova

Dr. Diana Mercado-Marmarosh: Come join me May 1st through the sixth so that you can rest rediscover your strengths, reconnect with yourself and those physicians like you who are ready to leave work at work. And re-energize. This is the invitation for you to make 2023 your year. Join me in Costa Rica in this really amazing, non-judgmental, intimate decision community.

I am gonna show you how to rest and how to recharge. Let's transform your brain. So that you can start to dream the life that you always wanted this year in 2023. I can't wait to, um, learn all about, uh, what kind of year you're gonna have after this conference. Take care. Hello, 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 unlearning some of my beliefs. And some of my habits were just as important as learning the new set of skills. Well, hello. Hello. I am so excited today. I have a dear friend of mine who has also actually been one of my coaches and, um, I have her here and I'm so excited. Uh, That we are gonna be talking about, uh, energy. We're gonna be talking about how sometimes we get so drained and we wonder like why we are so tired.

And this is, um, my physician friend. This is Dr. Oxana Ormonova. And I'm might have mispronounce that, but I'd like to call her Dr. Oxana Ormonova. So tell me a little bit about yourself, Dr. Oxana.

Dr. Oxana Ormonova: Well, um, thank you so much Janna, for having me here. It's such a treat, but, um, anyway, so I was born near Mongolia and I grew up in Siberia and I went to medical school in Siberia.

And since I was a child, I was very intuitive and I could see things that people could not perceive, right? Yes. And at the same time, I was very, very sensitive. I was sensitive to other people's emotions, um, other people's problems, what they were going through. And, uh, my mom was a physician and I used to make rounds with her, you know, in the hospital when I was four years old.

So, and I always wanted to help people and I always wanted to heal people. So naturally I went to medical school and. Even when I was in medical school, after my lectures, I will go to local clinic and I would put, um, I did hands-on healing where I will put hands-on, uh, people and they were getting better, so their pain was going away.

Uh, they were saying like, oh my God, what did you do? Right? Um, finally, I'm, I'm feeling better and I would go home and I would be just, You know, exhausted. I, I will be just go straight to bed. And I was not realizing back then that I was putting, you know, taking all the energy and absorbing all the emotions.

All the pain, and I was, um, taking it on. And then, um, also many years ago in my training, I was doing, um, rheumatology elective. And of course I was, uh, thinking, oh my God, it's going to be so easy. It's not a surgery rotation. Right. I can, um, get plenty of sleep. It's going to be like a, you know, uh, almost like a vacation, you know?

Right. And so after a few days working, and again with outpatient clinic in this rheumatology, Office office, I started feeling depressed. I was getting all the aches and pains, my joints were hurting, and I was young and I said, what's the heck, what's going on? And I was looking to, um, my attending and she said, oh, it's, it's okay.

I feel like that all the time. And she said, why don't you start taking, um, just. Small dose of antidepressant, you can just take half a pill of antidepressant. And I said, oh my God, I'm in the beginning of my medical training. If I start taking antidepressant now, what I'm looking down through, this is not a solution.

And so, um, and t