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Hi, I just wanted to say this all resonates deeply with me. For as long as I’ve trained in, practiced, and then not practiced psychiatry, I’ve had many of these thoughts. I have asked myself why I didn’t quit sooner, but of course I was socialized into this, and the student loan debt is formidable. So I now find myself in the position, as an “early career psychiatrist” and young mother, of wanting to find a way of practicing again that I can live with. A format that does not rely on the idea that I am an authority on anyone else’s healing journey. Going outside the system is intimidating, especially after so many years of indoctrination and our culture’s persistent manic embrace of quick fixes. It seems like it requires a profound shift in how the space is held.

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