Growing up in a family with a father as a physician, I always seemed to be asked the same question: “So, are you going to become a doctor like your dad someday?”, and ironically for the first 18 years of my life, that was the last idea I had in mind. At an early age, I began to develop an acute interest in mathematics and science. These classes seemed to come very naturally to me, which further increased my interest over time. As I grew older, it came more and more vividly clear that learning about medicine and science had become my passion.
Throughout my life I have taken up many obstacles and challenges that required diligence, patience, and hard work to be overcome. These obstacles are what have sculpted me into the individual that …show more content…
Everything had been going well until the beginning of my Sophomore year of college, which was when I was in the process of getting out of a long-term relationship of three and a half years. She was the love of my life and I had been considering proposing to her, which is what made breaking up with her so difficult for me. This was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do and consequently, it had a detrimental effect on my mental health. Even after several months of counselling and talking with friends and family, I felt numb to the world. Nothing seemed to be able to take the pain away anymore. My saving grace was an internal drive to continue along my path toward attending medical …show more content…
In conjunction with the stresses of life, this mental illness had progressively worsened beyond what I had ever experienced prior. Toward the end of that semester, I finally stopped isolating myself from my friends and family and got help. I was prescribed anti-depressants and although I was reluctant to treat the problem with medication, I felt like there were no other avenues to pursue as treatment options at that point, I took the medication. It allowed me to drag myself out of the hole I had been in. This opened my eyes, making me realize how much of an effect a pharmaceutical drug can have on someone’s overall well-being. Through that experience, it gave me a strong sense of empathy for people in similar situations, and made me feel that I could better treat other individuals who struggle with a similar mental illness in the future as a
Throughout my life I have taken up many obstacles and challenges that required diligence, patience, and hard work to be overcome. These obstacles are what have sculpted me into the individual that …show more content…
Everything had been going well until the beginning of my Sophomore year of college, which was when I was in the process of getting out of a long-term relationship of three and a half years. She was the love of my life and I had been considering proposing to her, which is what made breaking up with her so difficult for me. This was one of the hardest things I have ever had to do and consequently, it had a detrimental effect on my mental health. Even after several months of counselling and talking with friends and family, I felt numb to the world. Nothing seemed to be able to take the pain away anymore. My saving grace was an internal drive to continue along my path toward attending medical …show more content…
In conjunction with the stresses of life, this mental illness had progressively worsened beyond what I had ever experienced prior. Toward the end of that semester, I finally stopped isolating myself from my friends and family and got help. I was prescribed anti-depressants and although I was reluctant to treat the problem with medication, I felt like there were no other avenues to pursue as treatment options at that point, I took the medication. It allowed me to drag myself out of the hole I had been in. This opened my eyes, making me realize how much of an effect a pharmaceutical drug can have on someone’s overall well-being. Through that experience, it gave me a strong sense of empathy for people in similar situations, and made me feel that I could better treat other individuals who struggle with a similar mental illness in the future as a