Finding Myself Again with Erin Oberg

Dec 10, 2025

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Summary

In this conversation, Erin discusses her struggles with self-identity and mental health during her residency. She reflects on the pressures of proving her self-worth to others and the toll it took on her personal life, leading to feelings of burnout and disconnection from herself.

Takeaways

I was losing who I was as a person so that I could prove myself and my self-worth to other people. I was carrying the workload of residency as a whole, but then all the extra work as well.

I got to a point that there were moments where I would kept snoozing my alarm. I just don’t want to get out of bed in the morning. My laundry was backed up, my dishes were backed up.

I just, I wasn’t myself. That was very, very hard to think about and to feel.