TY - JOUR T1 - My experience of being a doctor with psychosis JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 30 LP - 30 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X694229 VL - 68 IS - 666 AU - Katharine Fox Y1 - 2018/01/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/666/30.abstract N2 - For months I had the diagnosis of ‘major depression’ after suffering burnout and having to call in sick on a very understaffed and stressful elderly care trust-grade SHO job. Due to start GP training, this had to be deferred until I was well enough. But the frustrating thing was that I would ask myself, despite the reassurance of family and friends, ‘When will I ever be well again?’ I had lost all confidence in myself as a person but, worse, also my clinical confidence as a doctor.This was the beginning of one of my many delusions — genuinely believing I was no longer a doctor, that I had been fired, and would never be a doctor again. These were very distressing thoughts given how long I had trained and how dedicated my life has been to medicine over the past 8 years of my life.Having ongoing suicidal thoughts but unable to recognise why, I was seen by a psychiatric team. The doctors were adamant that I was not displaying signs of psychosis. This was despite … ER -