This glossary is about my future career, the psychiatrist.
Depression
The danger of this job it's more about mental health. The psychiatrist needs to deal with mental health disorders, including depression.
A mental illness in which a person is very unhappy and anxious, for long periods and cannot have a normal life during these periods.
Example: It has been past 3 years and, I'm still in depression.
fr: Dépression
Diagnostic
Evaluating and diagnosing patients depending on their need.
Used for discovering the characteristics or cause of a problem.
Example: I will give to that patient an adapted diagnostic.
fr: Diagnostique
Disorder.
Very few people die related to their disorder.
A mental disorder is characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotional regulation, or behaviour.
Example: She has mental disorder.
fr: Désordre (mental)
Emotional burden
Sometimes, it can be really hard for the psychiatrist the emotional burden of losing patients to suicide.
A set of thoughts, fears, worries and quilt feeling that you carry with you.
fr: Charge émotionnelle
Psychiatrist
Beginning a psychiatrist is a well-paid job, if you like the mental health and helping people it’s a considerable choice of career even if you need to take care of your metal before.
A medical doctor with extra training in mental health who can choose to prescribe medications.
Example: I will become a psychiatrist later.
fr: Psychiatre
scope of practice
There is flexibility of hours and scope of practice, rewarding sense of helping people most days.
Activities that a licenced person do to practice.
Example: If you do your scope of practice, you will improve access to primary care.
fr: Champ d'exercice
Suicide
Sometimes, it can be really hard for the psychiatrist the emotional burden of losing patients to suicide