Feeling kind of blah today...many things that I feel pressured to do (i.e. navigate this university system and find a research project and mentor, write my psych report) and yet am procrastinating on. That, and a few worries creeping up like if I'll getting all that I can out of third year, if I'll ever be competent, and what I want to do when I grow up. Neuroses should be a DSM diagnosis, because I have many of them! Of course, I deal with all of this by doing PreTest.
The ah-ha moment (or perhaps self-admission) came today in psych didactics. We met an inpatient in psych today with schizoaffective disorder who was clearly psychotic and perhaps manic - impaired reality testing, bizarre delusions, expansive affect, pressured speech, the whole bit. Afterward, the psychiatrist said: this is a defining moment - either you think "this is utterly fascinating" or you think, "this is cool but not in my department." I fall dead in the latter camp. Fascinating, yes, and certainly amusing, but not something I could do long-term.
As an aside, this past weekend, I met up with some high school friends who I hadn't seen since high school! It was so fun to catch up. And go [big high school] - many of my high school classmates seem to be doing quite well these days, although it's not entirely surprising!
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