All my life, I have battled with anxiety and getting treatment for it, particularly in my early teenage years. I didn’t seek treatment until my condition worsened to a point where it was a struggle for me to even leave my house, then my family and I began looking into my seeing a psychiatrist. It was after I’d started treatment and began to see my life improve that it popped into my head that this was what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to not only help people with their problems but help them to see that there was hope for the future like my psychiatrist did for me. Once I got the idea into my head, I went online and did a bunch of research on what I had to do to become a psychiatrist and what exactly the job entailed. I read about psychiatric facilities, wards, and psychiatrists who work in general hospitals, alongside a plentitude of other careers in medicine. I talked to my …show more content…
She and I were discussing the matter of me studying medicine and she was going over the basics of college, then medical school, and residencies, and hearing it all coming from a real-life mentor really helped it all come to life. Making a plan, listing all the things I needed to accomplish, and above all the encouragement I got from her and other mentors pushed me to make my final decision. In making my decision, helping people was the most prominent reason I wanted to help people, but there are a large number of other reasons I came up with when finalizing my decision. Here are a few of the more prominent ones. Firstly, I love solving problems. That’s always been a huge part of who I am, whether it be mathematical equations, jigsaw puzzles, or more complicated, real-life problems like finding an effective method of making my siblings behave and help out around the house. In practicing medicine, you are always finding the root of a patient’s problem and fixing it, and no two patients are