Freaking out!!!

[dancemaiden]

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About once a week or so, my commitment-phobic-self screams at me and asks me why exactly am I going through this application process anyway?! committing to 7+ years?! and what happens if you end up just getting burnt out, hating it all, but not able to escape because you're buried in debt?!!

But then on other days, I think about how great it will be to be able to have a job where you can help people, make a difference in the lives of your patients, do something interesting, and have a relatively stable job.

yikes. im having a bit of an existential meltdown here. anyone else get caught in the cycle of too much thinking about your purpose and your true path and what-not? i'm hoping this is just part of the process of picking a direction for your life...

 

[ksmi117]

Moving to the main Pre-Allopathic forum. 🙂

 

[pie741]

(---- Pre-Allopathic forum is that way.😀

 

[alibai3ah]

Hmm those are normal concerns, but I wouldn't let them bother me unless you are really unsure if you want to make the 7+ year commitment....maybe slight doubts are fine, but if you are really uncertain about this, then I would not put myself through this expensive process until I was 100% sure...

 

[NickNaylor]

Maybe you should consider a year off to sort out your priorities.

 

[stayclassy]

Whenever life stresses me out, I think... well I could be dead, blind or really ugly. Usually makes me feel better for about 5 minutes. If you do it over and over, those 5 minutes could really add up

 

[Sharka]

Whenever life stresses me out, I think... well I could be dead, blind or really ugly. Usually makes me feel better for about 5 minutes. If you do it over and over, those 5 minutes could really add up

excellent advice.

 

[dancemaiden]

Whenever life stresses me out, I think... well I could be dead, blind or really ugly. Usually makes me feel better for about 5 minutes. If you do it over and over, those 5 minutes could really add up

lol love it! good point!!

 

[Crash88]

lol love it! good point!!

Think about your original reason for going into medicine (doesn't have to be something as amazing as saving your mother's life or something) and that always makes me feel better. For me, it is the joy of going into a profession with so much intellectual depth and challenge, constantly improving myself and the lives of my patients.

 

[diosa428]

Honestly, your attitude is probably more healthy than a lot of the students on here vomiting sunshine about how fantastic being a doctor is going to be. Medical school is hard. You will likely survive, and will probably have great times along the way, but there are also going to be times where you will be overwhelmed with the amount of information you're expected to learn, be physically exhausted from lack of sleep, be ignored or berated by your seniors and be gunned down by your peers. In addition, premeds think they know exactly what they're getting into, due to their 100,000 volunteer hours, but most of them don't. Maybe some do, but most don't. In my class, we had a dropout first year. We have a handful pursing MD/MBAs who may or may not end up practicing medicine. We have people going into specialties they never dreamed of because the specialties they thought they would like they ended up not liking at all. But at the end of the day, there are a lot of very different specialties that will allow you to find something that you like, and there are consulting jobs and other things to do with an MD if you find you can't stand medicine at all.

 

[Compass]

Take a deep breath. Let it out.








Repeat ONLY TEN TIMES A MINUTE. OTHERWISE, YOU MAY HYPERVENTILATE WITH THIS INTENSE STRESS-RELIEF METHOD! 😵

 

[link2swim06]

Try to take some time off and then come back to it when you are feeling better.

 

[Forthegood]

About once a week or so, my commitment-phobic-self screams at me and asks me why exactly am I going through this application process anyway?! committing to 7+ years?! and what happens if you end up just getting burnt out, hating it all, but not able to escape because you're buried in debt?!!

Then you move to another country. Quickly. And one that doesn't allow extradition.

But then on other days, I think about how great it will be to be able to have a job where you can help people, make a difference in the lives of your patients, do something interesting, and have a relatively stable job.

Don't think of that as being your day to day job. See the sunshine comment below. You have a long, long road before you taste that sunshine. And even if you do someday taste it, think of how many premeds died in the process.

Honestly, your attitude is probably more healthy than a lot of the students on here vomiting sunshine about how fantastic being a doctor is going to be.

There should be a smiley that pukes sunshine... then chokes and dies.