Book contents
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Reviews
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 A Medical Student
- Chapter 2 A Junior Doctor
- Chapter 3 A GP Trainee and a Patient
- Chapter 4 Back to Edinburgh
- Chapter 5 A Baby
- Chapter 6 Admissions: the Revolving Door
- Chapter 7 Recovery?
- Chapter 8 Into the Fray
- Chapter 9 A Psychiatric Trainee
- Chapter 10 Lucy
- Chapter 11 Back from the Edge
- Chapter 12 The Grey Walls
- Chapter 13 A Real Psychiatrist
- Chapter 14 Substances
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected
- Chapter 16 Going Too Far?
- Chapter 17 Moods and Medicine
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Resources
- Bibliography
Chapter 7 - Recovery?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Reviews
- An Improbable Psychiatrist
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 A Medical Student
- Chapter 2 A Junior Doctor
- Chapter 3 A GP Trainee and a Patient
- Chapter 4 Back to Edinburgh
- Chapter 5 A Baby
- Chapter 6 Admissions: the Revolving Door
- Chapter 7 Recovery?
- Chapter 8 Into the Fray
- Chapter 9 A Psychiatric Trainee
- Chapter 10 Lucy
- Chapter 11 Back from the Edge
- Chapter 12 The Grey Walls
- Chapter 13 A Real Psychiatrist
- Chapter 14 Substances
- Chapter 15 The Unexpected
- Chapter 16 Going Too Far?
- Chapter 17 Moods and Medicine
- Afterword
- Afterword
- Glossary
- Resources
- Bibliography
Summary
Increasing pressure to return to work coupled with increasing feelings of inadequacy. Reached rock bottom, and was persuaded to start lithium, and after all this time, started to slowly improve.
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- An Improbable Psychiatrist , pp. 69 - 74Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024