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Hi all,

Are there any JMO/SNR docs here with depression? How has it been handled? How have you handled it? How has it affected you?

I’m a 3rd year and just been diagnosed with depression and medicated. This past year has been the hardest of my life for no particular reason it just *happened*. I’ve felt paralysed all year and haven’t been able to work, study or enjoy any life (I have a very monumental life outside of medicine, no details in fear of anyone knowing this is me). This was seriously the worst year of my life, what sucked most is how I was/felt is NOTHING like myself. I’m not one to be like “omg I can’t work, ugh studying is so hard” I’ve always been that typical go-getter, gunner, yet this year has made me seriously consider dropping out as I don’t think in this position I’d be a good doctor.

Essentially what I’m asking is are there doctors who struggle with mental health and still succeed? How hard were JMO years? How did you get through junior years/training? How did the unpredictability, environment changes, nights, etc affect you? Were you given any type of support/accomodation? Were you faced with prejudice? Etc

I don’t know if I want to be convinced to leave or convinced to stay - I do want to be told what I’m actually in for.

Purely for the fun of it maybe even give some insight for upcoming JMOS

with our mandatory rotation, how did you scrape a good deal? What *type* of mandatory rotation was easier/better for your learning.

Ie mandatory surgical rotation. Those on something like colorectal surg were absolutely getting smashed with discharge discharge, call xyz- very little learning for surgery/patient management whereas someone got plastics as their surgical rotation and had a couple pts a day and had way more time for patient interaction and actually getting taught by their seniors.

What are your experiences with thing like this !!

Looking at the couples and I seriously don’t want any of them to win, borderline HOW can any of these couples be classed as ‘LI winner’.

We have Julia and Lorenzo. They are both great but it’s pretty obvious they’ll date for maybe 3 months and split. Lorenzo isn’t that into her, his heart is still with jasmine in there idc call me delusional. I 100% believe if jasmine was serious and said let’s get together he would. This should be ❌ as they aren’t that serious as a couple

Then jasmine and kav. Kavs insanely insecure and imo wants jasmine but doesn’t care for jasmine. She has completely lost herself in there. She’s been dimmed. Coupled with the fact aiden is either in love with her or hates her (who even knows at this point maybe a bit of both), there’s no world they work.❌

Mica and samraj. I honestly think the mica hate is so forced. She’s been bitchy in there, like everyone else. I don’t understand the complete ripping of her constantly. Samraj however is lowkey scary. Hides behind ‘I’m such a gentleman’ and being kind yet has done some of the most red-pill switcharoos ever. They as a couple make a bit of sense but they are always bottom 3 so won’t be them❌

Yaz and Tommy. I actually like these two together….. I think? They’ve gave us NOTHING I can’t remember literally a single chat between them. Also he has a girlfriend???? WAT? I could not possibly allow for a MLM queen to win LI. I think maybe the Facebook mums could get it together on this one ?

Aiden and Priya. How on gods green fucking earth is aiden there. Like actually this is essentially his only ‘real’ couple (that wasn’t oh we’re just getting to know eachother/lasts a week) AND ITS IN THE FINAL WEEK?? How did he survive. People feel sorry for Priya but I just can’t. I feel sorry for her always being second option, but at some point she does it to herself and the game player accusations just seem to be solidified by coupling up with aiden cause he’s the only one left then pretending they’re in love. No words just ❌

Angie and Simba. Just give it to Angie at this point. Simba is hilarious only because it’s not happening to me, but as a couple he has been horrid. Queen Angie needed a bomb weeks ago to rid herself from Simba. He has improved but I don’t believe he will stay loyal on the outside. The only couple that make sense, we just can’t reward Simba for his antics that went on for WEEKS.

This is the first love island season that i sincerely didn’t think anyone should win it. Even when there’s been horrible couples, you could always make a case for one of them.

Ps hope finley sleeps well at night knowing he lost 50k in an hour

I’m sorry idgaf can we all agree Lola’s reaction to fitzy’s movie was just weird. Giving “he knows where home is”.

I feel like after those clips, she realised her and fitzy’s ’relationship’ isn’t as perfect as she thought it was. And I could see the cogs turning that watching that + his behaviour was actually super upsetting but here’s the thing:
I think she’s not reacting as she realises it’s too late. It’s too late in the series to form any type of connection with ANYONE, and she has been so close off that if any bombs come in they won’t be picking her, and/or they won’t form strong enough of a connection to be safe.

On top of that I think she also didn’t want to react because it would prove herself wrong and juilia right. Her whole point was why would you talk to somone if they love their girlfriend and are closed off- but those clips proved exactly why one would think it was worth chatting to him.

Overall I feel really bad for her,
She has came across really bad this last week and has narrowed herself into a corner with only one exit - going home. No one is a fan of her (huge base I mean), no one cares for their relationship, we’ve seen no progression besides Lola deciding mid argument they’re in a relationship. IMO they’ve both wasted their whole LI time.

I know WHY a lot of people hate him like I’m on the wave length sis

But I love him as an islander to watch with my glass of wine. I don’t think brother knows where he is, what he’s doing, why he’s there. Just pure vibes.

I feel like us watching Lorenzo is like watching a goldfish in the ocean. It’s too funny😂😭

Now if I was ANY of those girls I’d be fuming he’d be pissing me off BAD. But when it’s got nothing to do with me it’s hilarious.

On a more serious note I do have anger for him because I just WISH he’d get his shit together and give the peoples princess what she deserves. You can tell him and Jas like eachother, you can tell during their couple jas needed more and he just doesn’t know how to give it. So big ups jas for taking her business elsewhere to get what she wants and needs. I just wish that ONE part of him was different because we’d have a GENERATIONAL slow burn, lovers to enemies, enemies to lovers story line.

Whilst you’re here, who’s a couple that has no business being together that you’d fully shipppp.
Mines random but listen… ange and kav! I feel kav likes a WOMAN but is still immature and ange would put him in his place(and he’d love it). And then ange would be able to bring out more of her fun, playful side we’ve only got to see a few times!!

I’m stuck. I’ve been living with pain constantly and no one seems to be able to figure out why.

For background: I’m 21F from Aus.

I’ve been struggling with chronic back pain for over a year.

For a sport I had to cut weight for an extended amount of time but had 0 injury. Once the comp was over I was very much enjoying not having to be so active so was taking it VERY easy!! Randomly 20 days later my back started hurting BAD. I couldn’t sit, laying hurt, and my ability to do any type of spinal flexion was absolute ZERO. I go to the gym regularly and use to do 90kg deadlifts (completely fine for years, no pain, work with pts and know it wasn’t an injury from poor form!) and overnight I couldn’t handle 16kg.

I can’t shave my legs, can’t tie my shoes and can’t sit down for longer than 10 minutes without fighting off a whole day from pain. This has been ongoing. It is undoubtedly worse on spinal flexion.

It’s also not only in pain when it ‘flares up’. It’s constantly in the background. When it’s ‘normal’ it’s a dull ache almost, the only way I can describe this is I feel like I need to snap my spine in half to relieve it. It’s the FEELING of bending a chop stick RIGHT before it snaps.

When it flares it’s that but on level 100. I’ve also had intermittent sharp ‘stinging’ pains that go through my glute medius, hip and TFL. It’s NOT the back of my legs 100% isn’t sciatica.

I had an MRI which came back clear. It doesn’t hurt to touch.

It’s fucked. Just to put it blankly. Im 22 years old and an incredibly active person and now I can’t. I avoid plans because I know after a while I’ll need to leave due to pain. I won’t go out to dinners because if it’s not a comfortable chair I’ll be in tears on the way home.

I have a high pain tolerance, I’m not crying from pain I’m crying because it just won’t go away.

I’ve stopped training, doesn’t help. I’ve tried more low intensity activities, doesn’t help.

I have a sit down job so I can’t avoid it. I get up every 30 minutes and walk and stretch but I still go home and lie on the tiles till I got to bed. The pain is still there even if I spend the day in bed.

From my research I think this could be a posterior annular tear, but my dr says “mri is clear so just wait it out and see a physio”. And ofccc being a female their only form of treatment is lose weight. For reference due to my sport im in a ‘building’ phase to gain muscle, it’s highly controlled. I’m also 2kg ‘overweight’ when looking at BMI (inaccurate as well due to being an athlete with more muscle mass)

Does anyone have any ideas. What is going on. What can I do. I can’t keep living like this. Constant pain and losing my whole identity and life.

Hi all,

As we all know the time you CAN apply to a program vs the time you’ll probably get on (IF for most) are drastically different.

As I go through my years, im getting more interested in GP as a training program (then do dips though O&G + Mmetab health for niche; focus on female health). Whats the realistic timeline post grad to get on the GP program? To my understanding it’s a lot easier, but is it reality to be able to apply in PGY1, start PGY2?

Thanks!