Posted by linkadge on May 2, 2011, at 15:19:21
In reply to Re: PLEASE READ.Pro/con:Gabapentin-agitated depression » linkadge, posted by mtdewcmu on May 1, 2011, at 20:15:11
>I didn't mean to be discouraging to all people >with a psych diagnosis, but that's how I feel >about me. I worked at a teaching hospital, and >the new physicians I met all seemed to be >functioning at a higher level of mental health >than I was.
IQ is an important factor that mitigates the interaction of learning and stress. A friend of mind suffered severe MDD, but it wasn't really stress induced. In addition, his ability to learn highly complex concepts on the first pass ultimately made law school manageable for him in spite of MDD (and epilepsy).
>If my ADD issues had been treated, then maybe. I >don't think of math as being all that high >pressure. Assuming you are talking about >undergraduate.
Well, the school I went to had the highest rate of suicide in the math and computer science programs (apparently) in the provice I'm in. However, I found teachers college more stresfull since my associate teacher had a Ph.D. and there was a long drive to my school (and other factors)
>I made it through undergraduate computer >science, although not without experiencing >florid MH problems and being somewhat scarred by >the experience.
Thats exactly the point. Some people are scarred by even high school experiences. It depends on the how stressful the individual precieves the experience to be, and this depends on individual abilities, mental health issues, and many other factors (financial capacity, family supports).
According to an article on medscape, clinical depression is a big problem in med school. This doesn't mean that many of these people don't get through, however.
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