Pooja Lakshmin, MD l Psychiatrist ✓ Verified Business

Mental Health Influencers

Juice cleanses won’t save you. Honest conversations might. QUANTUM SHIFTS coming March 23, 2027 📚 Real Self-Care, an NPR Best Book of 2023

117.3KFollowers

3.7KFollowing

1.4KPosts

0.1%Engagement Estimated

Creator summary

A mental health creator focused on the structural causes of stress and burnout, boundary setting, and realistic self-care. The creator combines educational and personal content with podcast and book-related promotion, including Real Self-Care and the upcoming Quantum Shifts.

Mental health educator, author, and podcast creator

Content formats

Video

41.7%

Carousel

33.3%

Image

25%

Based on 24 posts

Niche & topics

Mental Health Influencers

Burnout and boundariesRealistic self careStress educationPodcastingMental health authorship

Structural causes of burnout and self careBoundary settingCauses of stress and burnoutSelf carePodcast

Known for

Real Self-Care
Discussing structural causes of burnout
Boundary-setting guidance
Honest conversations about mental health
So Glad You Asked
Quantum Shifts

Profile details

Account type	Creator
Visibility	Public
Country	United States
Joined	December 2018
Links	https://poojalakshmin.substack.com

Content style

Video ledEducationalConversationalOpinion drivenPersonal storytellingPromotional

Contact & business

Public email	Not supplied
Contact method	Not supplied

Content Intent

Education

29.2%

Promotion

25%

Personal story

16.7%

Opinion

12.5%

Event or travel

8.3%

Historical context

4.2%

Product showcase

4.2%

Frequently Mentioned

Pooja Lakshmin Person 15 posts

Real Self Care Book 3 posts

Ruta Person 2 posts

So Glad You Asked Podcast 2 posts

Lark & Owl Booksellers Organization 2 posts

Mel Robbins Person 1 posts

Dolly Person 1 posts

Follow Up Podcast 1 posts

Community Reaction

These insights are based on a sample of publicly visible comments and may not represent the creator's complete audience.

Positive

Dominant Sentiment

9

Comments Analysed

2

Posts Sampled

Sentiment

Mixed

0%

Negative

16.7%

Neutral

16.7%

Positive

66.7%

Unclear

0%

Dominant Emotions

AdmirationSupportDisappointment

Common Intents

DiscussionPraisePersonal reaction

Recurring Topics

AuthenticityActive rest

Creator Interaction

Likely to interact	90.9%
Like rate	90.9%
Reply threads observed	7

Engagement Metrics

0.12%

Median Engagement

1.2

Posts / Week

Video

Dominant Format

Engagement Detail

Average likes	234.12
Median likes	136
Average comments	12.5
Median comments	8
Sample size	24 posts

Recent Posts (24)

Dolly's enduring identity

There are people who are the same person at 7 as they are at 70. Dolly was one of them ❤️‍🩹

Active rest and replenishment

You can be exhausted and a nap won’t fix it. It’s like, bone deep. Sometimes what’s missing is pleasure or play. This feeds a different

Shared responsibility and emotional labor

Ask yourself: Why am I always the one being asked to handle all of the things? Hi, I’m Pooja 👋🏽 I’m a psychiatrist and author. I spend a lo

Burnout and intolerable conditions

Burnout isn’t a sign that you need a meditation practice, or a better morning routine. It’s usually a sane response to being asked to absor

Parental anxiety and control

Are the parents alright? 😂 (Said with love, from a psychiatrist and mom of 3.) This back-to-school season, stop and ask yourself: Is the si

Authors' shared experiences

Every author I know has a story like this.

Real versus commercialized self care

Self-care was never supposed to be another item on your to-do list. But somewhere along the way, it got packaged, branded, and sold back to

Ambition and stress

I can turn even my wildest dreams coming true into a burden 🙃 Some thoughts on ambition, excitement, and how quickly we can turn both into

Summer life update

Summer 2026 photo dump. Hard to pick just 20 but here’s a snapshot of life right now. Scroll all the way for the most adorable twin giggles

Mental health during infertility and IVF

Infertility can be physically, emotionally, and logistically overwhelming. As podcast guest Dr. Pooja Lakshmin shares, going through IVF ca

Infertility and mental health

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ In today's episode of So Glad You Asked, "How Does Infertility Affect Mental Health," we talk about the psychological impac

Supporting women authors

A stack I’ve been meaning to share 📚 Grateful to the authors who sent these books my way. Putting your words on the page is hard. Getting

Maternity rights and workplace accommodations

TEXAS, we are bringing you REMEDIES. I want to have a very specific conversation in Texas about extended maternity leave and getting accomm

Memoir launch event

If you’re in the Austin area, I hope you’ll join me for the paperback launch of my memoir SLIP! The free event will take place on launch da

Women’s health and rights event

A doctor, a lawyer, and double remedies in Texas. Of all the conversations, the one about women’s health and women’s power is the one I wa

Self compassion in parenting

The most important parenting conversation is the one happening inside your head. Whether we are trying to practice better self-care or hand

Antidepressants and collective mental health care

Yesterday I joined NPR’s 1A to discuss antidepressants, mental health, and the growing conversation around whether Americans are “overmedica

Compassion and realistic limits

Your to-do list is delusional. @poojalakshmin tells us that’s compassion. Not the soft voice telling you that you did great when you didn’

Productivity culture and burnout

“If you’re a good mom, you can productivity your way out of burnout.” @poojalakshmin said that, and then I made her say it twice. Because

Motherhood and caregiving

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers, caregivers, baby sitters, surrogate mothers, chosen family, and nurturers holding other

Guilt and decision making

Guilt can feel like a warning light on your dashboard that keeps turning on, even when nothing is actually wrong. In this week’s episode of

Causes of stress and burnout

As a psychiatrist, I’m interested in a different question than “how do I manage my stress better?” Because, regardless how you answer that q

Structural causes of burnout and self care

Most of the wellness advice you’ve been given assumes the problem is you. That if you just rested, went to yoga, tried a little harder to op

Boundary setting

A clip from my interview with @melrobbins. This is my “Aha” about what boundaries really mean. The reality is we can’t always say no. Some s

Analysis based on 24 available posts.
Last snapshot taken: August 29, 2026