Has anyone else thought about being a doctor or psychiatrist?
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I’d love to be a pdoc but I have a lot of trouble learning and doing basic things.
So I had to settle for trying to be a teacher.
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@anon20613941 was in med school.
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I think It would be cool But unrealistic to me as I have bills to pay. If you’re young and living at home or have some other plan. I think it would be great to Having someone with real life experience as a doctor would be great.
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I’m 50/50 on becoming a pdoc, after I settle down, so like 10-15 years from now. Provided I get well enough to go to med school.
I want to incorporate some credible more holistic approaches to my practice, like eating a good diet and drinking ionized water, on top of prescribing antipsychotics. Things that have helped me get better, so I’d have a novel first-hand perspective of having put schizophrenia into remission before treating others.
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A long time ago, yes I was considering a doctor but good thing I didn’t get in cos it’s too much responsibility for me to handle and i prefer the purely preventaiitve approach now anyways.
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I would have to take a lot of classes like physics, chemistry, and biology. I got the math down.
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Yes but unfortunately I simply did not have what it took to get into med school. My gpa was not high enough, I didn’t have all these leadership and extra experiences, etc. By the time I realized I may want to go into the healthcare field I’d already finished a 4 year degree , was exhausted with school and had burned through my college fund. To get into med school at this point would require me to retake a ton of my courses, spend time shadowing, and spend a ton of money and time when I could be doing nearly the exact same thing only spending wayyyy less money and time by becoming a nurse practitioner. So I’m doing that instead.
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yeah, me, i’d like to be a trained peer support worker
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thats my goal. no clue if ill do well enough in my undergrad years to be realistic for medical school but im gonna try my hardest because i really want to be a psychiatrist.
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Good for you @korieve!
Nice goal to have …
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I want to become either a psychologist or psychiatrist. Or some kind of doctor. I want to help people that’s one of my dreams!!
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This man has schizophrenia and is a psychiatrist:
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That’s one of my goals
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I love it! “False hope. I think that’s better than false hopelessness”.
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I didn’t take hardly any of the prereqs for med school in college. I would have to start over so that isn’t likely. If I could get a good score on the LSAT though I wouldn’t rule out law school.
I love Law I have a Paralegal degree.
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I’ve never seriously considered a career in psychiatry other than as a passing curiosity.
I wanted to become a chiropractic neurologist, but because my city has no chiropractic schools, I instead went to a local university to study organic chemistry.
If you have the drive, the required resources (emotional & financial) and the physical health to sustain the effort, you can be whatever you want. Good luck!
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Not sure. But being a naturopathic doctor or studying Chinese medicine with acupuncture would neat. 
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I couldn’t be a physical doctor because I have such poor manual dexterity. I can’t think of any kind of doctor that doesn’t need good hands. I couldn’t even be a paramedic because my manual dexterity is so bad. As for being a psychiatrist - maybe. I think psychoanalysis can be very punishing for the doctor involved. This one psych professor at school told us one time that once you’ve been a clinician for six months the whole world starts to look like a cesspool. Psychiatrists have an extremely high rate of suicide. I might have been able to do that if I wasn’t schizophrenic, though. I have the type of mind that can handle that kind of thing without too much consternation.