Today I took my power back

Veronica Gritto
4 min readJun 30, 2021

And is good to see myself again

Ten years ago, I graduated in medicine. I was over the moon with joy. Six long years of sweat and tears have finally paid off. A few months later I was a resident doctor in the ER. Two years later, without a job and depressed. And everything was my choice.

What happened in the span of ten years is not easy to talk about, and maybe not even worth it. Just like you never talk about your steps while grocery shopping: you just go shopping and come home with the groceries. Nobody has to know how many times did you check on those…

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Veronica Gritto

Overthinker. Observer. Curios. Resilience and Integrity are my most sought-after values. Compassionate to a faulty degree.