Making friends as a trainee
I’m a second year trainee.
We had a talk in the first week about “finding your tribe” and holding on to friendships with your fellow trainees to get you through training and the immense pressure and dread I felt in my stomach after that talk was awful.
I have made a genuine friend in my cohort (someone that I have spent time with outside of it) but other than that, it’s been pretty lonely and isolating and has often felt like high school as a high masking neurodivergent girl round 2.
Some of the cohort meet up outside of the course and get involved in each others big life events such as baby showers, weddings, birthdays etc and I’ve often felt like a massive outsider, looking in on everyone being able to connect and wondering what I’m doing wrong or what’s wrong with me.
I was just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience during training?