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#116 - From Juvenile Detention to Medical Doctor: Dr. Dhruva Gulur on Rebuilding Your Life & Identity
In this episode of the State of Mind Mental Health Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Dhruva Gulur, a physician whose life reads like several lives stacked on top of each other. Dhruva walks me through a childhood shaped by his mother's schizophrenia, his father's rage, and the abuse that filled their home in Juneau, Alaska. He tells me how he landed in juvenile detention three times, drifted into gangs in Seattle, and then, after his father brought him to India, somehow earned seven scholarships into medical school.
We talk honestly about what came next: becoming a doctor while carrying deep…
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