{"id":1616,"date":"2026-07-05T07:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:47:42","slug":"ep-6-a-feature-interview-with-us-resident-cuban-senior-psychiatrist-norma-perez-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 6: A Feature Interview With US-Resident Cuban Senior Psychiatrist Norma Perez, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Gospel Chat Room, Ep. 6: A Feature Interview With US-Resident Cuban Senior Psychiatrist Norma Perez, MD<\/p>\n<p>Norma Perez, MD, is a senior specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry. She&#8217;s also a scholar who&#8217;s been engaged in medical teaching and research for a long time. Over the decades, she has helped many adolescents overcome their psychological struggles. Yet, while helping others, she experienced a series of heavy blows in her own life. She lost her son early in life, her parents passed away in her thirties, and she lost her husband in middle age. These heavy, repeated losses left her living in grief and depression for a long time. Even as a psychiatric expert who understood psychology, medicine, and various treatment methods, she still could not truly break free from her inner pain and depression. She battled depression for decades. Then, her life reached a complete turning point. Not only did she slowly escape the depression that had plagued her for so long, but she also rediscovered true inner peace, joy, and hope. Today, at 81, she remains full of vitality and often has a smile on her face. It is hard to imagine that this optimistic, peaceful elderly woman once lived in depression and pain for so long. What exactly enabled a psychiatrist, long plagued by depression, to finally emerge from its shadow, step by step? This episode of Kingdom Gospel Chat Room brings you Dr. Norma&#8217;s true and profound life story.<\/p>\n<p>03:12 The Career of a Psychiatrist, MD<br \/>\n07:15 At 21, Losing Her Son Changes Her Career<br \/>\n15:17 Symptoms and Treatments for Depression<br \/>\n30:56 The Passing of Her Husband Engulfs Her in Pain Once More<br \/>\n37:47 Loneliness and Confusion After Retirement<br \/>\n41:33 A Beam of Light Shines Into Her Life<br \/>\n46:39 A New Understanding of Life and Death<br \/>\n54:12 Finally Understanding That Parents Cannot Choose Their Children&#8217;s Lives for Them<br \/>\n58:06 Anxiety and Peace in a Pagan Environment<br \/>\n01:13:45 7 Insights for Overcoming Depression<br \/>\n01:24:17 Medicine Cannot Truly Resolve Inner Pain<br \/>\n01:45:01 At 81, She Finally Escaped Depression and Regained Peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingdom Gospel Chat Room, Ep. 6: A Feature Interview With US-Resident Cuban Senior Psychiatrist Norma Perez, MD Norma Perez, MD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=1616\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ep. 6: A Feature Interview With US-Resident Cuban Senior Psychiatrist Norma Perez, MD - Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kingdom Gospel Chat Room, Ep. 6: A Feature Interview With US-Resident Cuban Senior Psychiatrist Norma Perez, MD Norma Perez, MD, [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/?p=1616\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Spirituality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-07-05T07:47:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ytb_thumb-6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/spirituality.catherineliew.com\/\",\"name\":\"Spirituality\",\"description\":\"All you need to know about spirituality, new age &amp; 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