By Prerana Chatty, Medical Student at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
About a year ago, I experienced what I now believe was my first physical (and emotional) breakdown. I was beginning my senior year of college and was in the thick of the medical school application process. I wasn’t eating right, I never exercised, I barely got enough sleep, and I didn’t have time to process it, but I was always stressed. I developed a severe pain in my left shoulder, then an abdominal pain, then headaches, so on and so forth. Failing to realize that my body’s “breakdown” was a result of my poor self-care, I fell victim to another demon – illness anxiety.
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1/20/2017 0 Comments Fake It ‘Til You Make It
By Prerana Chatty
I went through most of today like any other medical student – in a massive rush. I had ten thousand things to do and knew that with the time I had, not everything would get done. Ignoring my throbbing headache and stuffy nose, I rushed around from class to meetings back to class back to meetings. When asked “how are you,” I answered with my proverbial, “I’m good! How are you?” and a cheery smile. I didn’t know how to be anything other than “fine.” |
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