Thread by @drjessigold

Trigger warning: medical student suicide.

A THREAD

https://twitter.com/londyloo/status/1362965259779272705

We know we enter medical school w/ equal depression to age matched peers&leave more depressed.

So what happens emotionally to us in Med school &y do we keep it an open secret?

We need to talk abt it & how the culture&the experience of the student has been compounded by covid.

In medicine, we sit in silence with our feelings & think we r alone & asking 4 help is weak...We push it down & down...until..a crisis.

That needs to change.

We need to be allowed to feel proactively.

&even get help proactively: journals.lww.com/academicmedici… (see:opt-out options)

We need to talk more about supporting schools after a suicide because this changes them, including the admin& students&teachers. This ripples through a system. We can’t sweep it under the rug, or make investments in #mentalhealth to make up for it.

Those r nice, so is healing.

We need more than a lecture on burn out or repeated studies or statistics.

We need to change the core of medicine & it’s values. To understand trauma is valid & vulnerability is a strength.

We need long term investment. Not a band-aid

But, our students futures are worth it.

If you need help call the physician support line at 888-409-0141 @ShrinkRapping

Or text “home” to 741 741 @CrisisTextLine

Or call 800-273-8255

Good resources also at: @afspnational @TrevorProject @NAMICommunicate

For pro-Bono therapy 4 frontlines: @TherapyAidInc @EmotionalPPE
@NYCTRN @CFCCovid

Family support: @LifeFlipside

Cheaper options: @therapy4theppl

I go to therapy weekly.
It grounds me, helps me cope, & teaches me to prioritize me...
Something medicine never did.

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Ps. This was linked to a tweet that has now been deleted but that was discussing another death at another school which brought the number up to a large number of Med students in the past few months across the country.

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