ECT Treatment: When to Refer, Who It Helps, and What Actually Happens with Dr. MaryEllen Eller

So other things you should know about me is I have a very goal-directed mindset.

I love some degree of theory if it's applicable and useful.

My program, we loved Myers-Briggs conversations.

And what I learned about myself is my brain is wired for efficiency.

I love doing things quickly.

I have had to embrace the process of trying to shift into the mindset of being effective and not necessarily efficient.

Okay.

And people like the good Dr. Pewter, his brain works very differently.

And we had some lovely times as he was an attending physician and I was a lowly resident working underneath him where he would come to round in the hospital on a Saturday or a Sunday morning.

And I would have a list of all the things I needed to do.

And Pewter would sit there and want to talk to me about the theory behind just about anything.

Oh, my God.

Yeah.

And my soul would cringe because all I want to do is get things done.

Once my list is done, I will talk about anything and I will be happy to do it.

But I got to get the checklist done first.

That is an experience every single resident has had of being like, yeah, yeah, that's great that Kernberg said that, but there's 20 patients to see.

And we've got to get through this list.

I've got to write a lot of notes.

So it was really lovely.

I have been so...

So blessed and honored just to watch.

I've had a lot of really wonderful mentors and Dr. Peter was one of them in his ability to find a way to balance meaning and purpose and to build a practice for himself that really incorporates the things that he finds to be most meaningful in his practice and is incredibly valuable to the clients that he treats.

And I think that's part of part of the wonder in psychiatry is that it is not one size fits all.

And the world needs some of us who are broad minded, who want to think about theory, think through how problems develop.