A physician’s struggle with mental illness

<p>"Was I that different? I had severe anxiety necessitating medication, compounded by stress, my own narcissistic tendencies, and a series of life choices—but Jason had something much worse. It all gave me pause. I was now twenty-four, just barely older than Jason when the committee took residence. Would I soon begin hearing voices as well?</p> <p>I supposed that beginning the long and arduous road of medical education while having an infant at home with a lonely wife in a new place more than a thousand miles from our family counted as enough of a stressful event to trigger whatever may lay dormant in my brain."</p> <p><a href= "https://healthcare.utah.edu/fad/mddetail.php?physicianID=u0024131&name=kyle-bradford-jones" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kyle Bradford Jones</a> is a family physician and can be reached on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/kbjones11" target="_blank" rel= "nofollow noopener noreferrer">@kbjones11</a>.</p> <p>He shares his story and discusses his book, <a href= "https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1684334551/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=kevcom-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1684334551&linkId=608944d26e045e7088f3537af07ff6cd" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fallible: A Memoir of a Young Physician’s Struggle with Mental Illness</a>. (<a href= "https://amzn.to/30oJezU">https://amzn.to/30oJezU</a>)</p>