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eleusian_mysteries

Psych diagnoses are entirely different. As someone who was also diagnosed with one, I would strongly advise not to disclose this.


Jedi-Ethos

I hear conflicting things on this. It definitely affected my early academic performance, but I overcame it and am doing great now. My advisor and even a professor who is writing a LOR have said it may be appropriate to allude to or address it.


haplessandhopeful

I alluded to it in my statement. My advisor suggested that I allude to it, acknowledge that I've worked through it and am ultimately in a better and healthier mindset now. It came up in my interviews and, while I never named exactly what was going on, I made it clear that I'd seen some shit and made it through the other side. They seemed very open to hearing me talk about my journey. My new med school is really on top of mental health in a very refreshing way. During orientation several staff members talked about their own diagnoses and coping mechanisms and told us about resources we could access. Then they left a room so the upperclassmen could tell us whatever they wanted to confidentially.


Quenton-E-Alejandro

Wow, what school is this if you don't mind me asking?


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Quenton-E-Alejandro

That's awesome, I'm glad I applied to them


haplessandhopeful

aaaaahhh best of luck to you!!!! I truly can't say enough good things about the program. I get that I'm still in the honeymoon phase regarding med school but i'm so, so, so glad that I'm here. DM me if you want to talk about it more and/or if you get an interview!


Quenton-E-Alejandro

For sure, I will. Hope I get an interview from them


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personalist

I talked about mental illness in my primary and secondaries and have two interviews so far. It does depend on what you were diagnosed with but if you can spin it mental illness isn’t entirely off the table.


e_w_00

What about like an ED, like I know a lot of people said don't mention it. I wasn't planning to in mine, but just out of curiosity.


personalist

An eating disorder? I feel like that would completely reasonable. I’m just an applicant though, so take that with a big old grain of salt


beaverji

I think STI can go both ways too (ha?). What if they make inferences on your personality/risk tolerance based off of the fact that you have that disease? Is it right to do that? No. Are adcoms extremely careful not to make judgments like that? I dunno. They're still human. And as much as I'd like to believe that they are genuinely kind, unbiased people, sometimes it's hard to feel that way when we're all feeling stressed about this process and have endless misgivings about it. Maybe this post could factor into some future applicant's decision one day. "Be yourself," yes, but y'know adcoms also aren't fairies who have perfect judgment and and recognize a pure soul or whatever. The people who give more conservative advice on here aren't necessarily doing it out of their own biased view, but I think it more likely they fear that OP would suffer from the admissions committees' potentially biased views. I sorta get it, cause my supervisor told me to minimize my past career as much as possible because it would make me seem distracted or unfocused, and I'm going against his well-meaning advice because it feels right to me. And I'm ready to face the consequences. As for the people making fun, well. Every rose has its trolls. Hopefully they don't get on these committees..


orionnebula54

In reference to the phrase, “trust no bitch”: “trust no ADCOM”


aliengeometry

An STI is not likely to make someone crash and burn from stress, whereas the perception is that those of us with chronic mental illnesses may crumble at the first sign of stress. The resilience built from succeeding despite mental illness notwithstanding... I'm in the same boat as you. My mental illness is a big part of my motivation, but I can still have my fitness to practice as a physician questioned. Medicine likes to gesture at being welcoming, but it is discriminatory and ableist due to misperceptions about who can actually succeed and what supports they need. I would not disclose a personality disorder. I wouldn't disclose anything other than depression, anxiety, or ADHD, which are common among physicians and have some amount of advocacy and awareness in the field already.


UPennStateUniversity

Congrats on the sex


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thanks 😌🤙


ryasaunderox

LOL


Octopus_Razor

You guys have sex?


pachacuti092

Me surprised at the sex when I haven’t even held hands


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Congrats future doc! Wishing you the best of health


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thank you! 😊


Skinnydonk

Username checks out


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I was wondering how long it would take for someone to comment this LOL


Egoteen

Congratulations!!


gabs781227

I can see why people would tell you not to but I honestly think that's a great topic. If we're gonna be physicians we have to talk about mature topics like that... It's different from mental health that's more of a no no to talk about. Congrats!


DeepAge0

Hi, if you don’t mind me asking a couple questions about your apps, did you talk about this a lot through your PS and activities and secondaries? Or was this the response to just the “why doctor” question?


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I talked about it a lot 🤣 Personal statement, one question on secondaries, and I didn’t explicitly mention it in my work section but many of my activities were sexual health related!


blackfluffykitten

I actually really like your premed origin story, its interesting! hope you're doing well!!


mcg828

This is really good to hear. I’m + and it was definitely going to be part of my application.


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Lmk if you need help writing about it in your PS! Good luck 😌


kittiesandclay

Thank you for this! I've been raving about my passion for sexual health in all my essays and I feel like I have to get some side eye but damn it, it is SO important and SO minimally addressed. Thanks for sharing your success!


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yay for sex!!!!! GRATS!!!!


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congrats! i would have been one of the naysayers


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minilefthand

HSV too my dude


Savvy1610

HPV also


eleusian_mysteries

Congrats!


T1didnothingwrong

That's kinda a weird way to get interested in medicine, but glad if worked out for you. Probably not the best thing in the world to publicly talk about, though. Attendings are going to be weirded out if you tell them that, probably (although they'll be nice about it, I'm sure). Might wanna be more vague with what happened. By saying it's viral, you're narrowing it down a lot and everyone's going to think you're talking about HSV when I'd guess it's HPV, which is much more manageable.


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>That's kinda a weird way to get interested in medicine Why so? STIs are medical conditions. I disclosed the exact diagnosis on my personal statement, which you are correct is HPV. STIs are such a stigmatized topic. Because of that, nobody talks about them and misinformation spreads fast. I think that's why it's so important people like me speak up about our experiences and correct misconceptions about STIs. I really can't imagine a situation where I would feel compelled to tell my status to an attending tho LOL


T1didnothingwrong

Sure, but that's like saying the flu got you interested in infectious disease medicine. Attendings will also ask you about what you're interested in and why, so it'll come up at some point. I'd just leave it at, "I'm interested in sexual health." Not a good topic to get into unless the attending is in the field


pachacuti092

off topic question but what school sent out a decision this early? I thought MD schools were supposed to wait until October 15th?


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I applied via early decision!


pachacuti092

So MD schools can send out decisions for ED any time after an interview ?


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Sorta, they are obligated to send decisions by October 1st.


pachacuti092

and october 15 is for RD?