how to cope with this?

sense?....just throwing it out there but to go on Diazepam after that just seems, in my personal opinion,....to be psychologically/emotionally weak. Which is something I have no qualms about looking down upon, and make no apologies for. We live in a society today where too many people are coddled when they need, to put it bluntly, man the **** up.

Wow you're a bitch. One of my friends ended up in a coma for four days and I stayed with her through all of that, another one had horrific internal injuries and they thought he was going to die, so excuse me for thinking that life was a bit sucky. Getting in a car after nearly dying was a bit scary for me, I apologise I'd hate to have you as my doctor.

But my point is, she hasn't been through a tough time! Certainly not tough enough to be put on prescription drugs - things could be a lot worse, in fact I'd say things are a lot worse for most people, so bleating about her traumatic experiences is neither wanted or indeed needed. If she cannot cope with this, how will she cope when she's standing in the middle of A&E on a saturday night, just graduated from med school, surrounded my various drunken injuries with 7 nurses asking her what they should do as she's the only medic available. The stress caused by this, and the knowledge that potentially you make the difference between life and death is surely x100 worse, so is she planning to self medicate for the next 40 years? I have plenty of compassion, but for people who deserve it.

Wow you're a bitch. One of my friends ended up in a coma for four days and I stayed with her through all of that, another one had horrific internal injuries and they thought he was going to die, so excuse me for thinking that life was a bit sucky. Getting in a car after nearly dying was a bit scary for me, I apologise I'd hate to have you as my doctor.

Wow you're a bitch.

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p.s. dont misuse technical terms, seeing u next tuesday I find is far more explanative.

The answer to everything does not lie in a pill.

That made me smile.

And _andrew_ yeah you're right tbh, I was fine without anything for the rest of my interviews though

And Woody. Yeah I was being a bit of a bitch this morning and the hostility wasn't needed.. Sorry.

You can't generalise people's emotions and reactions. Everyone copes differently to different circumstances. If you do generalise, you run the risk of prejudice, i.e. what YOU consider to be serious and ignoring what is important to a patient (exactly what is happening here). She finds it important, to the extent that she feels she cannot cope. Also diazepam isn't that fun, you get a nasty hangover effect with it. Some people get palpitations when they go on stage. Is it wrong they get prescribed beta blockers? Some people get carsick, to the extent that they cannot visit their grandparents over christmas. Is it wrong they get prescribed cyclizine?

And saying all about medics/students? Have you any idea how many medics suffer from mental illness? Drug abuse and alcoholism is sky high! Noone is immune from stress. If you want a biochemical model, look at the pain gate theory. That is why some people cry like a baby with a cannula whereas some people can withstand the most tremendous pain without analgesia.

Well said.

I think the person complaining is just pretty ignorant. Wait for three years until they're in the middle of their medical degree and have realised just how much stress they & their friends are under, just how many of their friends have been depressed - some of which (even the user themselves) may be on anti-depressants.