Mentorship...Secured!

Monday, November 30th, 2020 - Sunday, December 6th, 2020

I beamed with happiness after finally accomplishing the goal that I have had since the first day of ISM, finally getting a mentor. I am ecstatic to get to work with Dr. Zia Uddin and I hope to learn more about how the field is. One point that I am focused on learning more about is how sports psychiatry is and how treatment for athletes differs from a general patient. I am also looking forward to conversations on his experience as a psychiatrist and the further advice that he would give me on how to be successful in the field. Especially with our shared cultural background, I am interested in discussing the stigma in our culture on mental health and in what ways that ignorance can be fixed. Along with this, I plan to do more research on the role that religion and spirituality play in psychology, which I became interested in after my interviews with Dr. Sanaz Adibian. While my job as a psychiatrist would be geared towards science and treating through medicine, I hope to also combine this with the universal questions of philosophy and our place in the universe as human beings.

Besides my mentorship, I have been working very hard on creating satisfying visuals for the Research Reflections and creating a thorough presentation. I have become more confident in my public speaking skills and have been putting emphasis on my ability to enunciate words. Through doing this presentation, I have taken some critical lessons away from the mentorship process and through my research. When speaking with professionals, I felt comfortable and could talk to them without feeling pressured or scared of being judged. This type of mindset is what makes patients so trusting in psychiatrists and psychologists, and is a mindset that I will need to implement in my own life. I also learned about how flexible psychology is and how many different industries I could possibly enter. This assures me for my future and that if I lose interest in psychiatry, I have many other topics that my love of psychology can be implemented into.