Chronically
Chronically
Podcast Description
Welcome to "Chronically," a podcast dedicated to exploring the realities of living with chronic illness. Join host Roi Shternin as he shares personal stories, interviews with experts, and insights from those navigating the challenges of long-term health conditions. Each episode delves into topics like resilience, patient empowerment, and the importance of community support. Whether you're living with a chronic illness or seeking to understand it better, "Chronically" offers inspiration, practical advice, and a sense of connection. Tune in to discover the strength in your journey and the power of shared experiences! roishternin.substack.com
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Content Themes
The podcast covers a variety of topics related to chronic illness, such as resilience, patient empowerment, mental health, and the importance of community support. For instance, it features episodes on mindfulness techniques for managing migraines and discussions about navigating the healthcare system as a patient advocate.
Testimony that gets missed becomes evidence nobody can ignore.
I spent nine years as a paramedic reading what people couldn’t say out loud when it mattered most. Then my own body stopped working, and I became the patient thirty-three doctors couldn’t see. This show lives in that gap — between what’s actually happening to someone and what the system in front of them is able to hear.
Each episode is testimony: mine, and other patients’, clinicians’, founders’, and people who’ve had to prove something was real before anyone would act on it. No empowerment language. No inspiration for its own sake
This episode was recorded a while ago. Right after, I had a huge relapse. Podcasting stopped — not by choice, my body made that call. I’m back. Here’s that episode.
Dr. Hector Rodriguez is an integrative psychiatrist based in Miami. We talk about trauma, complex PTSD, why the mental health field is broken by specialization, and what it actually means to treat a person instead of a diagnosis. As someone living with complex PTSD myself, this conversation is personal — not theoretical.
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