Originally Posted by
Steel Maiden
There's one person saying that if I have a history of mental illness, there's no way I'd ever be accepted for medicine.
That's definitely not true. I knew of someone in the year below me at medical school who sat her GCSEs in a psych hospital, there was someone in my year who I think also had been a psychiatric inpatient, as well as one of my good friends who has just qualified who was under mental health services for a lot of her medical degree.
I do agree with what the other two have said regarding the social interaction that's required and noise and such. I'm sure it's not impossible and if you continue to make lots of progress it may well be achievable, but my instinct from the things that you've posted is that you would struggle massively with it at the moment.
You'd have to do a lot of clinical training before getting into pathology- do you think you'd feel comfortable, for example, taking a detailed history from someone who was crying hysterically and not talking clearly, or talking to a relative of a patient who had just died suddenly?
I don't think there's any doubt that you'd manage the scientific side of it, but I wonder if you've fully thought about the clinical skills element of the course?