Mood Disorders: A rollercoaster of emotions
Dr Sarah Hutton discusses Mood Disorders. Its fairly simple when you break it into sad and happy (or is it)?
I am currently an Advanced Trainee in consultation liaison psychiatry with my specialist training having been with HNET based mostly in Newcastle. I have a special interest in perinatal mental health and am leaving Newcastle in 2017 on secondment for the bright lights of Sydney where I have taken up a specialist perinatal training position based at the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick. I hope to bring a lot of experience back home with a plan for the future to have more perinatal mental health services in the local area. As a junior doctor I always thought that I would do GP training with psychiatry not even being a blip on my radar. I asked to do a psychiatry term as a JMO as I knew it would be helpful and fell in love. I then asked to do another term, then applied for an SRMO position with my love the area growing, until whilst on maternity leave applying for a training position. I have enjoyed teaching throughout my medical career and always try to make it fun and enjoyable. I have a very dry sense of humour at times which comes out a fair bit when I am teaching so I apologise in advance for my pretty bad jokes! I am originally from the UK, having done my medical degree through Leicester Medical School, graduating in 2007. From there I did my Foundation Year 1 (internship) at York District Hospital before making the big move down under with my husband in 2008. My love of all things Australian developed from my 4th year medical elective where I spent almost 2 months in Wagga Wagga and I knew following this that I belonged in Australia. Since then I have dragged my parents over here and became an Australian citizen in 2013. Outside of work I am a mum to two fabulous young boys, a black labrador and a goldfish who all keep me on my toes. I also love all things musical theatre and have found a perfect work-life balance performing in several local productions over the past couple of years. I remember having to make a very serious decision in my early teens as to whether I was going to follow my passion of singing and head for the West End or follow my dream of becoming a doctor. It turns out I didn’t need to choose either or and I absolutely adore these two very different branches of my life.
Dr Sarah Hutton discusses Mood Disorders. Its fairly simple when you break it into sad and happy (or is it)?
In this blog Dr Sarah Hutton discusses the role that anxiety plays in everyone’s lives and when anxiety may become a problem.
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