Mental health matters to medical students

Isobel Walker
ByIsobel Walker
Published19 May 2020
More and more medical students are opening up about their personal challenges with mental health. Nottingham medical student Issy Walker shares her experience of navigating medical school with a mental health condition.
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A sketch by Issy

I am certain that I am not the only medical student who feels like this – as if nobody cared, as if I was ‘weak’ and as if I was wasting peoples time if I tried to reach out. I never want anyone to ever feel like I did at that time.

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Isobel Walker
medical student

Issy is a 3rd year medical student at Nottingham and originally from London. She has a particular interest in the wellbeing and mental health of her fellow students, and actively engages to work towards promoting it in various aspects of uni life alongside her studies. Her aim is to keep her options open for her future as she undertakes clinical teaching. Aside from medicine, she spends her time doing artwork, sailing or coaching rowing. She tweets about mental health in medicine<a href=\"https://twitter.com/issywalker\" target=\"_blank\">@issywalker</a>.&nbsp;</p>

Mental health matters to medical students