Posted by mtdewcmu on May 5, 2011, at 12:25:51
In reply to School and psychiatric illness » Phillipa » mtdewcmu, posted by SLS on May 5, 2011, at 5:18:44
> Yes. Thanks for the explanations.
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> A friend of mine didn't become depressed until after she enrolled in the nursing program and UNC. She had become sick enough to prompt her doctors to administer ECT.
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Nursing school is something else entirely. It can be a miserable experience. I guess sort of like how military training tries to expose you to some measure of the stress of combat. You deal with your weaknesses in school so you don't have to discover them when the stakes are high.I would have most likely had a far better time in nursing school if I had had Dexedrine though. What made it a struggle was leaving things to the last minute, or past the last minute. I took a lot of advantage of the late policy. With effective treatment, I should have breezed through.
Med school is probably even harder, though, because the material is at a level of detail and pace to challenge people who were already highly successful in high school and undergrad. It must be everything nursing school is, plus more. And the atmosphere is more competitive. Nursing students have more of a team mentality. The sheer thought of having to excel in college for 4 years, then get through another 4 years of med school, then be ready for more years of punishment in residency -- while spending monumental sums with no guarantee of any return -- that scares me.
Real psych patient. Not a real doctor. Contact a doctor for medical advice.
40mg citalopram, 20mg ish d-amphetamine, 15mg mirtazapine
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