Tbh I think he was more uncomfortable than me lol
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I don’t understand … 
but I’m a bit thick …
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Sorry I didn’t say it right. In med school some topics you learn are considered vital for you to pass to graduate. They are known as professional exams and the bar for passing is higher.
Anyway I sat these professional psychiatry exams part of which was an oral exam. This particular doctor did my oral - man it was tough.
Anyway about 4 months later I was a patient on the ward and he comes in in a doctor capacity. We notice each other and he is shocked/embarrassed. I didn’t care I was pretty far gone at that point.
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Ah wow. Cool story.
That is pretty cool …
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Man as well because I had to repeat a few years all the junior doctors were former classmates! Was weirder for them than for me
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oh wow, you were going to school to be a doctor too? I never knew. That’s cool.
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I never graduated. Good thing too - I would have been a total liability
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but now you have unique insight into psychology
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Tbh I prefer being the patient to being the doctor. Too much responsibility as a doc
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Different situation but I saw one of the psych techs that was working on the ward in person after my last hospitalization. She went to the same college as me. I avoided her like the plague because she saw me when I was very ill.
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It’s such a small world. I experienced something similar myself on more than one occasion. I’m always so embarrassed to see them! Not for them but for me 
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Wow. I would be embarrassed if anyone knew about my MI from school. It sounds like you handled it well.
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This one schizophrenic named Matthew was transported from the mental hospital back to the jail with me, they put both of us in chains for the trip. I ended up running into him at crisis care a year later, I was so glad to find he had stayed out of jail. We watched a football game together.
Also at state hospital was a girl I met the very first time I was hospitalized, shortly after a suicide attempt six years earlier. Seeing these people multiple times in my life popping up again in other hospitals/mental health facilities was serendipitous and at the time added to my delusions.
I know it’s not directly related to the topic but your story seemed similar, meeting someone twice out of chance.
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My best freind in high school works in the public hospital in my town. I went to a private hospital but the insurance runs out after three months and they boot you out. I’m afraid someday I’ll end up having to go the public hospital and he’ll end up meeting me.
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hey jim, did any of them say hi? just curious,
i like to be my own dr i am pretty self supporting
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The junior doctors said hi. The senior doctors avoided my gaze
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its nice if they were friends of yours,
have you seen your dr friend you were talking about recently?
(Could’ve been a while ago)
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Not seen him in about a month. He is a busy guy
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I guess it’s good you are not upset about it. I would be horrified. This disease really puts you down in society.
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