• Question: What made you interested in Pyschiatry

    Asked by Gracie Peacock to Psychiatry Ward Team on 30 Jan 2019.
    • Photo: Sheffield Psychiatry Ward Team

      Sheffield Psychiatry Ward Team answered on 30 Jan 2019:


      Hi Gracie! 🙂
      Emma here (doctor)

      I did some voluntary work at a hostel for people with mental health difficulties. Before I started I had lots of preconceptions about what they would be like – drug abusers, violent, manipulative etc – all based on TV/newspaper biases!

      Working there however I worked with the most intelligent, caring, funny, warm and creative individuals who just happened to have a mental health problem making them who they were. It completely changed my prejudgements and I decided I wanted to work in mental health and train as a psychiatrist 🙂 I still keep in touch with some of them now!

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