Hi, I had a history of trying to kill myself and was kept in a mental ward for a week. There's probably a record of that. Do you think medical school will reject me for that reason?
What is the mistake that you are talking of? The mistake that I am gay and try to pursue this career or is that the fact that I am gay?
What is the mistake that you are talking of? The mistake that I am gay and try to pursue this career or is that the fact that I cannot handle this because I am gay?
No I am not angry, I just dont have any energy left to be angry whenever someone call me names.... It just does not matter what i will become in life you know, someone will just hate me (I came to college as a closet, have plenty of friends, when I thought that they really my friends I came out, I have no friends left)
No i read the post it just that you guys reply too quick before I could finish clarify myself and the repeating post just made me look stupid.
No, your usage of the English language makes you look stupid.
Your ignorance makes you look stupid. Not everyone participating in these forums is a 1st language English speaker.
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Are you mentally healthy now? Because you're clearly not reading the posts.
A career of a physician is extremely stressful; physicians currently lead professions with suicide/depression etc. It is a major mistake to start medical school with a suicide issues that have not been resolved because even medical students are at much greater risk for suicide. 1 in 16 surgeons have contemplated suicide, and of those 3/4th of them had a plan. This is a horrible field for people who don't have strong mental health. 300 physicians commit suicide each year (it takes 2 graduating medical school classes to replace them). So just take a breather, and get things in your life in order before you make the commitment.
I didn't mentioned anything about you being gay in my post.
Without looking at the statistics I'm pretty sure soldiers/veterans would be the top of the depression/suicide ladder, but then perhaps you meant doctors are near the top but not necessarily the absolute top of that statistic.
I don't understand why you think I am a troll. If you want I will post up a medical form that clearly state "mental illness." It really was an honest question. I was admitted 5 days in the Lewis Gale psychiatric center January 16-January 21, 2012.
Thank you everyone for actually answering my question. I was just wondering if that could keep me out of medical school that's all. If you look through my past posts, all of my questions were serious and concern about the process.
Your ignorance makes you look stupid. Not everyone participating in these forums is a 1st language English speaker.
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Without looking at the statistics I'm pretty sure soldiers/veterans would be the top of the depression/suicide ladder, but then perhaps you meant doctors are near the top but not necessarily the absolute top of that statistic.
Can I ask you why this is an issue? I think you are paranoid. What you're asking is along the lines of "will the adcoms know about serious injuries from car accident that was my fault because I'm reckless and irresponsible, and reject me on that premise?"
I think you need to handle your illness and THEN go to medical school. You need to be on medication. I'm not a psychiatrist but I can tell you that my mother has bipolar disorder, and she was hospitalized in her 20's for a suicide attempt. It's not normal to be suicidal and no one has control over being in that state.
Please see a psychiatrist at a research hospital who specializes in mood disorders or bipolar disorder. I'm not saying you're bipolar, but if you are and you see a run of the mill psychiatrist they will probably give you an SSRI antidepressant. This is bad.....very bad for someone with bipolar disorder.
Take care of yourself and I'm sure you will be in medical school someday.
Hi, I had a history of trying to kill myself and was kept in a mental ward for a week. There's probably a record of that. Do you think medical school will reject me for that reason?
What if one was to tell the interviewers that if not accepted into med school they would commit suicide?
Oh please like you can judge whether or not someone is manic from an SDN post. For all you know he IS manic and thinking he can go to medical school is a grandiose delusion. (OP I'm not saying that is true but for the sake of my argument).
Bipolar people can absolutely be paranoid when they're depressed or manic and irritable. It's not like "my neighbor is reading my mind and selling my thoughts" paranoia but they can worry to the point of being sort of paranoid.
However, I wasn't saying OP IS paranoid (edit: ok, yes I did and i will go back and edit that because I meant something different) or that its a symptom of bipolar disorder. He was being sort of paranoid in worrying about people finding out his medical history on their own, without him specifically telling them. Many people with bipolar disorder become suicidal. It's not unreasonable for me to bring it up in this context.
I doubt this is really true. I think physicians are just more likely to admit that they are or have been depressed because they are aware of it and unconcerned with the social stigma.
Anyone could be at risk for developing depression. It's genetic first and Environmentally triggered second. Common sense says that doctors are less likely to be prone to depression, otherwise they probably wouldn't be doctors. Someone who is truly depressed would not be able to successfully meet the daily demands of medical school.
Can you please explain the relationship between my original post and the above statements? I don't know which part of my post you're replying to.
You seem to be forgetting about the thousands of jobs that are far less rewarding, more underpaid, are dangerous, involve physical labor, etc. I'm not discounting the difficulty of medical school and then subsequently a career in medicine but , to act like physicians are more psychologically and physically challenged than other professions is totally absurd.
There are studies showing that higher IQ persons may be at higher risk for certain psychopathologies.
What about engineers for private firms who design weapons? Or planes for the military? Im not talking about lockheed martin or raytheon, im talking about the small private firms who actually do the top secret engineering and design work. You don't think they operate under intense deadlines for 25 million dollar contracts? Or engineers who are designing medical devices or new imaging methods? Or cancer researchers who are aware of the lives lost every day because they haven't succeeded in developing a specific treatment yet?
You're drawing at straws here.
Then there are the garbage men who spend their entire life driving a garbage truck......and I could go on and on.
Because seeing people die after working with them for prolonged periods of time is equivalent here.
Anyone could be at risk for developing depression. It's genetic first and Environmentally triggered second. Common sense says that doctors are less likely to be prone to depression, otherwise they probably wouldn't be doctors. Someone who is truly depressed would not be able to successfully meet the daily demands of medical school.
The human mind doesn't work this way. If you have a few hours I highly recommend Col Grossman's book 'On Killing'. He was a military psychiatrist that wrote about the psychological training necessary to enable human beings to kill, and the psychological trauma that resulted from it. One of the interesting things he found was that while it took enormous psychological conditioning to get someone to point a rifle at someone and pull a trigger(and causes enormous psychological strain), it took basically no conditioning (and causes no strain) to get them to kill unseen targets via a degree of mechanical separation, for example by shelling a town. We're not built to have an emotional response to lives that we are not in direct contact with, even if we consciously know our actions are having a huge effect on them. That's why running a code, even on an essentially brain dead patient in the Neuro-ICU, can be an extremely emotional experience while bench research, even to help treat suffering children with Leukemia, is not. For that matter its why someone who feels bad killing a bug in their home can eat a steak dinner without so much as a pang of guilt.
It's genetic first and Environmentally triggered second.
This is an idealogical claim, not a scientific claim. Many things are wrong with this statement, not the least of which that it is unfalsifiable.
EDIT: psychiatrists did not discover that depression is a disease of the brain, they simply advocated to society, and successfully at that, that sad people be deemed ill. This is very different from discovering a new virus for example.
I do not want to derail the thread with a debate regarding the scientific status of psychiatry. I have argued with you before and we are not going to change each others minds.