I think Britney Spears has bipolar I disorder.
Hence the title.
Bookmark Feb 08.
Totally Shrinked in the 4 weeks plus 1 day of Feb 08.
Shrinked into wanting to be a shrink and conduct shrinking business for the rest of my life.
I've fallen
Fallen in Love
Tragically, not with a male/female.
But anyway, still in Love.
In love with Shrinky business Psychiatry.
Its really scary, akin to falling in love.
It happens suddenly, most unexpectedly.
It creeps up under your skin before you realize you’re addicted.
Addicted into seeing its patients.
Addicted into going to school.
Addicted into listening at ward rounds and case presentations.
Psychiatry, one of the under-rated specalities in Medicine.
But why shinky business, Miss Kee?
“There’s no cure, no hope for any of these patients.
Aren’t you scared of mad mentally unwell people?
You mean you went to MEDICAL school to be a Shrink!!?!?!”
False.False.False.
Do we cure Heart failure, do we cure TB, do we cure HIV, do we cure Diabetes?
Medicine today, is probably more preventative, more palliative, more supportive.
Cure, should be a term that only surgeons can and should use.
So excuse me, please don’t say Psychiatry is hopeless.
Medicine ain’t that great either.
Imagine having a voice in your head that’s not what you asked for.
That voice is there not because you asked for it, but because you genes gave it to you.
It’s a voice that is degrading, commanding and scaring you shit loads.
It’s a voice that tells you the world is up against you.
And it’s a voice that these patients don’t want.
That’s Schizophrenia.
No, these patients are not scary, they are scared of me and of you.
And yes, Psychiatry is a specialty within medicine.
It’s a privileged specialty that gives you the only opportunity to work with people holistically.
You don’t just cut off their breast lump and send them running away.
You don’t just start them on Blood pressure lowering medications and hope they take their medications.
It’s about knowing a person, their troubles during their growing years, their social stressors that make them the way they are.
Be it depression, schizophrenia, bipolar or even substance abuse – all has its roots, to the genetics in utero, the chaotic life in childhood, to the sexual abuse in its teens.
Sometimes just knowing what these patients sustain in early life makes it justifiable that they are the way they are today.
Seriously, its not their fault their like that.
Be nice, to the Schizophrenic patient on the tram. For he’s scared of you more than you are.
So be nice, to the psych patient in the ward cos he has a story to tell.
And of course, be nice to the friendly psychiatrist treating them. ;)
Yes, Miss Kee is currently in the state of mind that says she should be a Psychiatrist.
Easy to get into the training program and out cos no one wants to be a shrink, seng-nang lifestyle cos all emergency cases are pumped with valium in the most compassionate manner to control them till assessment can be made, and best of all the thought of opening a not for profit flower and furry friends shop to cheer the depressed up next to her own 9-3pm private practice so that dance class can happen at 4pm is seriously tempting.
