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Support Systems in Winter
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Support Systems in Winter

Steve discusses the isolation felt in his profession and the need for more social activities to foster connections among colleagues. The importance of community support and communication is highlighted as essential for mental well-being during winter.

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What kind of support do you find helpful or wish you had to get through the winter months healthily? This could include support from professionals, community, your peers or friends, you know. Because of the nature of the job, GPs are in their rooms on their own all day long or or most of the time. And we're sort of isolated in our rooms. And it's the nature of the job that we don't get a lot of time to talk to each other. So, but I think more social activities with the practice maybe, which they're trying to do at our practice, a couple of quiz nights a year, but maybe there could be other things as well. You know, there's the Christmas do as well. I joke with people when I meet them in the corridor, Oh, you're such and such. Okay, right, blah, blah, blah, blah, chat. And they'll say, well, I'll see you at Christmas. You know, that, you know, I've said that recently to people, you know, okay, well, I'll probably see you at Christmas then, you know, because we don't see each other because they're all shut away in our rooms, which is the nature of the job. So it can be a bit isolating, the job. So some way of, and I do a job on my own that nobody else does in the practice. So I've got nobody else to talk to about the job and it's quite a demanding job. So talking to people about their, you know, they need food parcels, their mental health, they're homeless, you know, they're living in a tent. So you get this in the job, that's what I find the most difficult is to stay positive because I'm on my own in it. So, you know, does that answer the question? Oh, absolutely.

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