Japanese doctors 'taking medications to treat stress'

[Taro Toporific]

Nearly half of Japan's doctors in poor health or worried about physical, mental state: survey
japantimes.co.jp | Nov. 19, 2012
Nearly half of the doctors working at hospitals nationwide are either in poor health or worried about their physical and mental condition due to long hours and stressful working conditions, a survey revealed Sunday.
A poll of 2,108 doctors across the country, conducted between June and October by a doctors' labor union and other medical groups, found ...As many as 71 percent said they feel stressed at work and some were taking medications to treat stress-induced symptoms, the survey showed.
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[Samurai_Jerk]

Meanwhile, doctors with their own clinics are the laziest motherfuckers on the planet.

[gaijinpunch]

Has there ever been a Japanese survey that said people were happy? Other than the world champion masturbater and his time-keeping wife?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Has there ever been a Japanese survey that said people were happy? Other than the world champion masturbater and his time-keeping wife?

That guy's happiness must be short lived given the condition his cock must be in after winning.

[canman]

Unfortunately, my old student/doctor/friend, committed suicide a few months back. He was a very good neuroligist, who was well published, a great man, friendly, sympathetic, caring. According to his colleague, after traveling to different towns in Iwate (he was a professor at Iwate medical school) to volunteer on the weekends for displaced people, he would come home so tired and depressed. But nobody ever thought he would take his own life.

[matsuki]

Doctors...shit, at least they can afford all the normal Japaneeeeze stress relief procedures. Kyabajo's, Fuzoku, rape portn, and school girl panties. I'd be more worried about the average joetaro who is barely making ends meet and eying the trains funny on the platforms. He should take a tip from the drunk ojichan that ride the trains in the morning with cans of chuhai, beer, or that sakepetrol in a jar.

[Coligny]

Meanwhile, doctors with their own clinics are the laziest motherfuckers on the planet.

Yea... aboot that... why do you think we turned the clinic into a gigantic home instead of reopenning it ?
(hint, it's not aboot the cost of the paint, the clinic is 5 minutes away from the central train station, middle of the city).
For the same reason that despite being 4 streets away in a nicer hood dad never lived in the family house while the clinic was running.
It's not exactly that city hospitals hours are fun... but at least you can have a home aside from work to do some laundry in peace...

[Mock Cockpit]

Never trust a skinny chef and never trust a doctor who doesn't self-medicate.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Meanwhile, doctors with their own clinics are the laziest motherfuckers on the planet.

Yea... aboot that... why do you think we turned the clinic into a gigantic home instead of reopenning it ?
(hint, it's not aboot the cost of the paint, the clinic is 5 minutes away from the central train station, middle of the city).
For the same reason that despite being 4 streets away in a nicer hood dad never lived in the family house while the clinic was running.
It's not exactly that city hospitals hours are fun... but at least you can have a home aside from work to do some laundry in peace...

I guess I was thinking of central Tokyo where most clinics are in office buildings.

[TennoChinko]

So, what kind of meds are these stressed-out docs taking to alleviate stress?
Medical marijuana?
I wants in!!!

[matsuki]

So, what kind of meds are these stressed-out docs taking to alleviate stress?

THIS

[IparryU]

So, what kind of meds are these stressed-out docs taking to alleviate stress?
Medical marijuana?
I wants in!!!

[Mike Oxlong]

Unfortunately, my old student/doctor/friend, committed suicide a few months back. He was a very good neuroligist, who was well published, a great man, friendly, sympathetic, caring. According to his colleague, after traveling to different towns in Iwate (he was a professor at Iwate medical school) to volunteer on the weekends for displaced people, he would come home so tired and depressed. But nobody ever thought he would take his own life.

I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Maybe someday the field of medicine will be more open to things like this:

A 'Party Drug' May Help The Brain Cope With Trauma

In a paper posted online Tuesday by the Journal of Psychopharmacology, Michael and Ann Mithoefer, the husband-and-wife team offering the treatment — which combines psychotherapy with a dose of MDMA — write that they found 15 of 21 people who recovered from severe post-traumatic stress in the therapy in the early 2000s reported minor to virtually no symptoms today. Many said they have received other kinds of therapy since then, but not with MDMA.

The Mithoefers — he is a psychiatrist and she is a nurse — collaborated on the study with researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and the nonprofit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.

The patients in this group included mostly rape victims, and experts familiar with the work cautioned that it was preliminary, based on small numbers, and its applicability to war trauma entirely unknown. A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense said the military was not involved in any research of MDMA.

But given the scarcity of good treatments for post-traumatic stress, “there is a tremendous need to study novel medications,” including MDMA, said Dr. John H. Krystal, chairman of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.

The study is the first long-term test to suggest that psychiatrists’ tentative interest in hallucinogens and other recreational drugs — which have been taboo since the 1960s — could pay off. And news that the Mithoefers are beginning to test the drug in veterans is out, in the military press and on veterans’ blogs. “We’ve had more than 250 vets call us,” Dr. Mithoefer said. “There’s a long waiting list, we wish we could enroll them all.”

The couple, working with other researchers, will treat no more than 24 veterans with the therapy, following Food and Drug Administration protocols for testing an experimental drug; MDMA is not approved for any medical uses.

A handful of similar experiments using MDMA, LSD or marijuana are now in the works in Switzerland, Israel and Britain, as well as in this country. Both military and civilian researchers are watching closely. So far, the research has been largely supported by nonprofit groups.

“When it comes to the health and well-being of those who serve, we should leave our politics at the door and not be afraid to follow the data,” said Brig. Gen. Loree Sutton, a psychiatrist who recently retired from the Army. “There’s now an evidence base for this MDMA therapy and a plausible story about what may be going on in the brain to account for the effects.”

In interviews, two people who have had the therapy — one, Anthony, currently in the veterans study, and another who received the therapy independently — said that MDMA produced a mental sweet spot that allowed them to feel and talk about their trauma without being overwhelmed by it.

“It changed my perspective on the entire experience of working at ground zero,” said Patrick, a 46-year-old living in San Francisco, who worked long hours in the rubble after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks searching in vain for survivors, as desperate family members of the victims looked on, pleading for information. “At times I had this beautiful, peaceful feeling down in the pit, that I had a purpose, that I was doing what I needed to be doing. And I began in therapy to identify with that,” rather than the guilt and sadness.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I strongly recommend people to avoid this treatment...