Feeling overwhelmed

The old timers will be super PO'd that I'm going to tell you to check out my post history

Check out posts re: termination, dismissal, resignation, etc

Because point is this:

You make ANY noise to your PD that you are even having involuntary dreams about a scenario in which they may be a resident down in the schedule and they may make those dreams come true... meaning they pre-emptively hire someone else to take your spot before you have a chance to surprise them

I tell you to read those posts because I want you to understand how, not completing your intern year, hell, even completing it, how giving up a residency spot.... can lead to these "help my clinical career is over and now I am financially ruined and considering suicide" threads

You need to hold to a residency spot as though everything you have ever worked for in your adult life and the rest of your financial future depends on it... because it does.

I feel for you that this sucks, and if you post back or PM me I can direct you to the following advice which is floating around in my history:
how to make time to obtain healthcare during residency
how to obtain psychiatric care during residency without tanking your whole career
how to have medical issues/disabilities accommodated
ideas to save time and get more food in
sleep hygeine
non-pharm ideas for depression
if you have EPIC some template efficiency ideas
if you are not doing well at your program what legal things to think about doing to protect yourself

TLDR
don't consider time off unless you or patients are in danger if you continue working
don't give up your spot just to have some time off
don't make such noises to your PD yet without reading about what can go wrong
hold to a residency spot like Rose did the raft in Titanic
more advice should you ask have I, young Jedi

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Feeling overwhelmed