The Life Scientific: Jacinta Tan
Discovery
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Do You Have a Mental Disorder?
I think it was much more that there wasn't very much understanding, that i needed a little bit of help to learn how the system worked in the u k. So i became depressed. It was put down to cultural differences. And when i came back to work, i was expected to sit my exams three months later without any additional support or extension. That then taught me never show weakness, and that i had to be ten times as good as the oxbridge educated white people around me in order to get ahead. This was the mid 19 nineties. While treating patients on the wards, you started to notice something that made you curious about what might be going on in their minds. I
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