Done with second year, having doubts!

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Hello, I'm a third year medical student (in the middle east) whose having doubts! Sorry if this turns out long. I finished my second year of medicine about a month ago, where I really struggled. In short: I was an honour student during my first year (pre-professional; before you chose whether you want medicine, dentistry, or pharmacy) and I made it into medicine. Since my first year everyone joked around telling me how they can't imagine me being me a second year and that even if I started studying in the summer I'd never catch up (I'm a slow studier) . I started second year in September, which was going well at first, but by the end of the first semester, everything started going down hill. I stopped studying less and less each time and my grades dropped. Now, second semester started, using my low grade in the first module as motivation. I started out well, attended lectures, actually studied..then about 2 weeks after, down hill again. I passed the second module, and now on to the third. Same thing, started well, down hill+personal problems. Studied less each day till I stopped studying all together and didn't cover even a quarter of the material I was supposed too, thankfully I passed this one too. On to FINALS! You'd think I'd learned my lesson now, panicked, tried to do my best to save what's left, right? Wrong. I completely shutdown, and didn't study anything (did a couple of past questions the night before). During all this, I was constantly being put down my father who saw that my behaviour/attitude/lifestyle was not fit for being a medical student and advised me to drop out numerous times. I start third year in September and I'm horrified that nothing will change, that I will still be unmotivated/lazy or whatever it was that was keeping me from doing my work even with the huge drop in my GPA scare I got. What if it keeps happening?

With all that being said, I'd like to add in that I absolutely love medicine and I'm into all the subjects and don't have much difficulty learning. Problem is with motivation, doubts about whether I'm fit to be here, etc.)

I started out writing this hoping for advice, but as I'm typing I remember the numerous times friends have tried to help me, but nothing worked ever.

Thanks to whoever actually read this, I appreciate it.
 
I started out writing this hoping for advice, but as I'm typing I remember the numerous times friends have tried to help me, but nothing worked ever

SDN members will be less effective, if your personal friends who know you better were ineffective. Please seek out a psychotherapist so you can get a full evalutation to discover any underlying concerns that are stopping you from performing well.

You must do this because we don't want you to create a new thread in the near future saying "OMG I failed out of medical school. What are my options?" because by then you'll wish you took action while you had the chance to do so.
 
Have you thought about seeing a psychiatrist? Generalized Anxiety Disorder is very common in the medical school population.
 
keep in mind he is in the middle east

not sure the state of mental health over there
 
I have thought about it actually, but being in the middle east makes it very hard, basically nobody ever speaks of mental health.
 
Whenever I need things put in perspective, I talk to a smart old person.
 
I have thought about it actually, but being in the middle east makes it very hard, basically nobody ever speaks of mental health.
Just bc nobody speaks of it, doesn't mean there are no psychiatrists there. You can see one in private.
 
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