Voices

What’s scary about being a medical student is that sometimes, you tend to make explanations for the strange things that happen to you.

When you hear unexplained voices speaking on your ear, you don’t immediately regard it as supernatural. You have two options: it’s either some medical brain condition, or could be psychological. The way you asses yourself can tell you which is which.

Paranoia isn’t odd in the medical world. When you study different signs and symptoms of diseases, you tend to correlate it with your own; just like when people look up their symptoms on the internet, and they come up with one disease - CANCER.

But what would you do if it was you? If you yourself believe that you don’t have the ability to go beyond the realms of the real world, yet you hear stuff you are not able to hear. Should you go get a CT-Scan, or go straight to psychiatrist for a consult?

That kind of decision has never been easy. For a positive result from either consultations can never be good.