I think the choice to have Dimitri live with Schizophrenia was a really great choice precisely because it's not something that defines him in the story! I'm in medical school currently and I'm actually heavily considering psychiatry for my specialty. I can't say how much I love that you made it a part of his character but not his whole character. His confession to Claude hit me square in the chest with how real and vulnerable it felt.
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I certainly found it refreshing to see the day-to-day aspect of schizophrenia. Most of my experience in school centers around crisis management in an inpatient setting. So, I'm usually exposed to patients when things go wrong and they are at their lowest point. I only got any outpatient experience by going off on my own time. Seeing your friend's insights on living with schizophrenia in the notes and the text of the fic have been very enlightening for me in that regard.
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If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to take a look at it. Most of my medical training focuses on the diagnosis, disease progression, and medications. Our training on preparing people for the day-to-day of the disease is, unfortunately, mostly reserved for residents only. So unfortunately, I'm not quite at that level yet. But the saying goes in medicine, "It's better to know the person with the disease than the disease the person has," so any personal life experiences your friend has would be a real treat to learn from.
Frankly, I find with life-long diagnoses, it's nice to have some grasp of what patients have to deal with (the day to day bs). I have some experience personally with the lovely chestnut of anxiety/depression, and it really has helped me with tempering expectations of both patients and their families. There's so many small mental habits that I still have from that (my first diagnosis instinct being something far deadlier than is usually the case. It was very helpful in the ER.) I can't imagine how isolating it could be to just not realize what day-to-day life looks like for its disease. Frankly, I'm glad mental health has become a more everyday topic compared to even five years ago. Hopefully, we can get there with other mental health disorders soon. I'd like patients to not feel like pariahs due to their diagnosis.
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It's nice to see things I've seen patients experiencing but they couldn't put into words well explained in the document. Thank you so so much!
(james note: gaps were mostly just me referencing things you'd told me, and then linking your gdoc)
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I certainly found it refreshing to see the day-to-day aspect of schizophrenia. Most of my experience in school centers around crisis management in an inpatient setting. So, I'm usually exposed to patients when things go wrong and they are at their lowest point. I only got any outpatient experience by going off on my own time. Seeing your friend's insights on living with schizophrenia in the notes and the text of the fic have been very enlightening for me in that regard.
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If you wouldn't mind, I'd love to take a look at it. Most of my medical training focuses on the diagnosis, disease progression, and medications. Our training on preparing people for the day-to-day of the disease is, unfortunately, mostly reserved for residents only. So unfortunately, I'm not quite at that level yet. But the saying goes in medicine, "It's better to know the person with the disease than the disease the person has," so any personal life experiences your friend has would be a real treat to learn from.
Frankly, I find with life-long diagnoses, it's nice to have some grasp of what patients have to deal with (the day to day bs). I have some experience personally with the lovely chestnut of anxiety/depression, and it really has helped me with tempering expectations of both patients and their families. There's so many small mental habits that I still have from that (my first diagnosis instinct being something far deadlier than is usually the case. It was very helpful in the ER.) I can't imagine how isolating it could be to just not realize what day-to-day life looks like for its disease. Frankly, I'm glad mental health has become a more everyday topic compared to even five years ago. Hopefully, we can get there with other mental health disorders soon. I'd like patients to not feel like pariahs due to their diagnosis.
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It's nice to see things I've seen patients experiencing but they couldn't put into words well explained in the document. Thank you so so much!
(james note: gaps were mostly just me referencing things you'd told me, and then linking your gdoc)