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Originally Posted by eskielover
It's not just about becoming a MD, It's also about being able to deal with patients unless stay in a research capacity only with no patient contact.
If the MI is totally controllable & one has the actual skills & ability to do the work it takes to get through med school & the rotations required in the hospital work then the residency time. Even people without MI struggle to get through all the requirements.
I wanted to be a flute performer in a symphony. Bottom line....I didn't have the talent even practicing 8 hours a day to compete with the really talented musicians. In other words it is more than desire or even mental ability to do something....there is an internal talent that gets one to where they want to be.
I personally want an MD with that kind if ability working on me, not one who just squeeked by.
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But in how many cases severe mental illness (let's say, schizophrenia) is controllable? The drugs how horrible side effects, and if your psychiatrist isn't competent (not common although) you may end up getting Neuroleptic malignant syndrome. Which can be even more threatening to the patient than their mental illness. I agree with the italic part.
I am very talented, if not grandiose. I used to love science ever since our introductory class in junior highschool. I managed to top it in my class sometimes. Since my injury was infantile, I still showed symptoms at a very early age but they were not that noticeable and my classmates probably didn't notice I am abnormal before 8th grade. Then in ninth grade I became a Jesus freak (as Christians call it) and due to me not living in West, everyone just realized how messed up my brain is. It is very painful when I think about it now. I bathed once in a week.
So much I stopped studying science, and had my grades drop on it. Large mistake for my career, as my more mature and self sane puts it now. Physics was introduced in ninth standard. Then again I managed to cover myself and studied science in tenth grade and got 80% in the prelims but only 68% in the boards. I wish I didn't become a "Jesus freak" and had studied the science in class nine. I was unaware of my memory problems back then. Had I studied then, I wouldn't be struggling with physics and some part of chemistry now...
But what can we do? All I remember is Grey's Anatomy's cast singing, "Just know that these things will never change for us at all." Due to my parents' foolishness, the cruelty of my pre-primary teacher and the uncaring attitude of my bullies, I became what everyone calls "crazy."
I was given one shot in life, I didn't quite make it.