Hi guys. I'm feeling really burned out recently. I feel like all of my energy and motivation has been sucked dry by 3 years of dental school. I feel like I've lost myself along the way. I'm not the lively, happy-go-lucky person I once was and I feel so empty everyday. Doing resto's, exams, and prophy's bore the f***ing hell out of me...and I'm pretty miserable most days in clinic. Sorry for cursing, but I feel like I don't want to do this anymore. Which is a ridiculous for me to even think, because I am too far into dental school to quit, and way too far in debt. My only option is power through these 10 months. How do I do that when I feel so burned out and disinterested in everything? What has my life come to? I feel so sad, that I feel like crying.
I don't know what happened. I used to be super interested in dentistry, my peak being in D2 and beginning of D3. I blame clinic stress for this damage. More often that not, things never go the way I want to them to in clinic, because there's always several variables, and when one goes wrong, everything goes wrong. I'm sick of it. Clinic's more headache than reward. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I'm feeling this way because I'm stressed and tired of dental school, or because I'm losing my interest in dentistry . I hope it's not the latter, because that would mean I wasted so many years of my life for nothing. Sigh.
I don't know what happened. I used to be super interested in dentistry, my peak being in D2 and beginning of D3. I blame clinic stress for this damage. More often that not, things never go the way I want to them to in clinic, because there's always several variables, and when one goes wrong, everything goes wrong. I'm sick of it. Clinic's more headache than reward. I don't know what to do. I don't know if I'm feeling this way because I'm stressed and tired of dental school, or because I'm losing my interest in dentistry . I hope it's not the latter, because that would mean I wasted so many years of my life for nothing. Sigh.
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