#residency graduation

[mashupofmylife]

I’ve written and rewritten and debated this post on all other socials, so naturally it goes up here without a second thought.

I finished residency today. 4 years and 25 weeks after starting. But Psychiatry is a 4 year residency? And American residencies finish at the end of June? 

It took me 25 extra weeks because I spent those 25 weeks in PHPE, and PHP, and IOP, working on my eating disorder, and my depression, and my PTSD. And when I came back to residency I continued to work on all of those things, while also doing the doctor training thing.

I take more meds than most of my outpatients. I have more frequent appointments than most of my outpatients. There are definitely days where I’m jealous of patients who seem to be doing great compared to me. 

Part of me wanted the full story to get shared, because it was a lot on top of a lot, and without the full story you can’t appreciate what my life’s been like. Part of me thinks that no one needs to know how hard I worked and what I overcame to make it to the point in my career. Or that I’m fishing for compliments by sharing all of this.

But hey, shits hard and I’m trying to let myself really appreciate what life has been like.

So maybe I sometimes still end up on the couch for hours wishing I didn’t have to be alive.* I graduated psych residency while juggling treatment for my own mental health issues that have literally knocked me to the ground on more than one occasion. Maybe, just maybe, I can talk about that without turning into a giant tomatohead.

*My therapist knows. And my psychiatrist. And my primary care doc. Honestly this is an improvement from where things were.

[machiattostudy]

Samedi 11 février 2023 

Hello there how are you doing ? 

4 months left until graduation. 4 months before becoming a doctor :)) Life is rough and exhausting. Everyone is so stressed out and suspicious since they aren’t enough places for all of the students. I might chose internal medicine. 

I try to stay out of this toxic environnement. I hate competition. 

I hope you guys are doing good. May we all be walking safely and peacefully towards our goals. 

Take care. 

[twosignificantfigures]

when i rewatch criminal minds episodes i'm always reminded that emily is actually crazy good at her job

today i was rewatching seven seconds (best cm episode ever btw nothing will ever top seven seconds) and if you look at emily's face when the uncle was explaining that maybe katie was just playing dress-up you can see in her eyes how she put the pieces together in her head that there was something going on and that the uncle may have done something to katie

it's even more obvious when you watch the clip like you see the moment when it clicks for her but she couldn't say anything unless she had proof of it

and i have to admire paget's acting here too because she was just so good at the subtle changes with just her eyes and body language she was just too good in this ep this was HER ep

i still get chills thinking about the scene where she was getting the aunt to confess what she did to katie and goes "you have robbed katie of her childhood, are you going to steal the rest of her life from her as well?" with so much fury and passion my god she is excellent

[alwaysbewoke]

[justinesattendingadventures]

I survived residency!

Yes I still have 7 days left...

But I have now officially graduated!

[persephoneflouwers]

(My favourite) Pics of Louis 2022 wrap ✨

[lone-wolf-nergiganos]

Father! Ethan Winters X Graduating Son! Male Reader Headcanons

Ethan is one hell of a dad, literally fighting countless of various zombies and monsters alike just to keep his family safe

Seeing you graduating puts a smile on his face, and he is glad to see you how far you've gone

One time he even said that he'll set up and graduation party for you, and of course you got excited

Ethan would always brag about you to his friends for being such an amazing son

Since you are graduating and entering adulthood, Ethan teaches you the importance of being an adult and how to defend yourself from anyone and anything

Ethan may not be the perfect dad, but he is definitely a dad anyone could ask for

[luck-of-the-drawings]

when i was in highschool one o my biggest coping mechanisms was drawing all the kids i hated getting killed and eaten and killed. and well. time is a slowly ascending spiral. you will find patterns.(i work as a blackjack dealer. gamblers are FASCINATING

[aquaquadrant]

*I crash through the ceiling and land in front of you* Haii!! I just finished your Hels AU and I must say I ADORED IT!!!!!!!!! I just wanted to ask, will there be a sequel, prequel or smth of that sort?? Thanks!!!

hey there, thanks so much! the main HTP au series, from eden, is actually still ongoing. i’ve got chapters 1-8 linked on my pinned directory and am currently working on chapter 9. i’m currently estimating that there’ll be 11 chapters total plus an epilogue. it’s def been slow going as each chapter gets longer and more complex (and this semester has been brutal on my free time), but ch 9 should be finished during winter break (it’s about 3/4 done now) and i’m hopeful i’ll get the rest of the series done over next semester, or next summer at the latest.

now, finishing the main series doesn’t mean i won’t write for the au anymore. i’ve actually got a lot of different characters and mini plot threads i want to explore in one-shot form later on. so there won’t be like a structured fic or planned update schedule, just whatever catches my fancy, i guess. it’ll just be kinda sporadic bc after next summer i’ll start my final clinical year, and i imagine i’ll be able to do very little writing in that time.

[prince-liest]

Read your orchids tags and what a mood... I'm also someone who recently started having disposable income and definitely can spend money but have a lot of guilt about doing it anyway. Idk I guess it's just nice knowing that there's other people going through the same things and that adulting is Weird. I hope you get all the purple flowers! I hope we can both overcome our spending guilt!!! Raaa!!!

Aw, haha, I totally feel you anon! I've literally budgeted a certain percentage of my take-home income as "guilt free spending" and I'm pretty okay with spending it on relatively low-cost stuff, like a $20 game or whatever, but a $65 orchid seems nuts to me even though I'll probably obsess over it for months and months while the game sits unplayed in my Steam library, HAH. I keep thinking "I'm buying too much..." and then I do the math and actually, no, I'm under budget.

Starting last month is actually the first time in my life I've supported myself entirely off of my own income, and I'm 28, so I've jumped from "$100 is so much money" to, y'know, paying rent and bills and buying a couch and so on, and getting used to seeing sums of money that large come and go in my bank account has been an interesting adjustment. On top of that, I also just grew up fairly frugal. We were never in dire straits financially, but we immigrated to the USA without much money, and also, just, like... it's the broke Soviet expat attitude, hahaha. Even when we Had Money it was a matter of Should We Really Be Spending It? (Which has worked out great for my parents and made me like-minded! But even my dad has told me, like, "Worry less, it's not that much money," lol.)

I think it's not an uncommon way to feel, and sometimes I try to justify it to myself in "going to the movies" units of money. Going to a nice movie theator and having a good time without going crazy but still splurging on a snack or a drink or something runs on average about $25 and most people wouldn't consider that too unreasonable. Would this orchid be worth about three fun afternoons to me? Well, that no longer sounds excessive.

Not a super reliable measurement, but it's mostly just meant to put things into some perspective without actually being a strict judgment.

At the end of the day, though, I just tell myself that as satisfying as it is to transfer dollars into my Fidelity account to sit on like a dragon, this money is literally in my budget to enjoy on whatever. I have paid my bills. I have put money into savings and investments. I have enough for groceries. What is money for after that if not to enjoy life?

[tobe-sogolden]

i graduated medical school yesterday :)

[stockholmgf]

every email i receive from my university takes a year off my lifespan

[justinesattendingadventures]

I Passed My Boards

It's a preliminary result but still feels good. Now I'm starting to apply for my full license which is hella daunting but I'm making headway. I'm currently on my last vacation in residency. Then I'm in the hospital for the next three weeks, two weeks of days and a week of nights. But then it's June and I'm just in the clinic until residency finally FINALLY ends!!

[esmealux]

I miss writing fic so much I wanna dig a hole

[axe8472]

nothing radicalises a UK university student like reading about the history of tuition + maintenance grants/loans

[study-coffee-chicago]

For people who moved out of state for grad school, did you change your residency to the state you moved to? Why or why not?

I’m moving out of state for grad school and have no idea whether or not I should change my driver’s license, license plate, etc.

(And this would not effect my cost of tuition since there is no difference of cost of tuition for in-state vs. out-of-state for the school I’m going to.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!