KASHMIR LIFE (KL): How we introduce you Dr Tarfarosh?
DR SHAH TARFAROSH (DST): I come from a middle-class Srinagar family. While growing up, I saw my parents grappling with financial difficulties. Despite that, they ensured I received the best education from two top schools– Iqbal Memorial Institute and Green Valley Educational Institute.
After completing my primary and secondary education, I decided to study medicine. I pursued my MBBS at Jammu and worked at Delhi before deciding to move out.
I had to fund my Western education and training dreams all by myself, so worked for a year in Delhi, and also did some menial online jobs here and there to pay for my Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) exams, visa and travel to England. I met amazing teachers and nicest seniors, juniors and batchmates at both the schools, medical college and IHBAS, Delhi.
I recently received the MRCPsych degree from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, London after passing all their exams. I am working as a Specialty Registrar Doctor in Psychiatry in the hospitals of Oxford Deanery. Here, I have had the privilege of learning Psychiatry through the Oxford Postgraduate Psychiatry Course (OPPC) under the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.
KL: Why you choose psychiatry?
DST: I had a short period of severe anxiety during my teens. Due to mental health stigma in Kashmir, I was taken to cardiologists instead of psychiatrists. Apparently, it looked like I had a fast heartbeat. One of the cardiologists even falsely diagnosed me with a rarest of the rare heart conditions, but I knew I was struggling with anxiety. I didn’t give up and chose to recover through self-help books, which were the only resources available to me.
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