Mihika Nepal

PGY-3 Psychiatry Resident• Passionate about child and adolescent mental health 🧸 • She/her

[Mihika Nepal @mnepal25]

That’s my sister! 👏🏼

[Victor Baez | Club Ambition @itsavibe]

Brown University students are calling out their school at a Public Council meeting in Providence Rhode Island for the low amount of taxes they pledge to pay the city

"I hope that Brown hears my disgust, with how they continue to take more than what they give to Providence" 📍

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I recently came across a beautiful Buddhist teaching: The Two Arrows.

The Buddha once asked his student, "If a person is struck by an arrow, is it painful?"

The student nodded, yes.

The Buddha then asked, "If a person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?"

The student again nodded, yes.

The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. The second arrow is optional."

The first arrow is the negative event that hits our lives.

This is the uncontrollable chaos that we may find ourselves thrown into from time to time.

The first arrow is impossible to avoid. It hits and it hurts.

The second arrow is governed by our response to the first—and as the parable teaches us, being struck by the second arrow is entirely within our control.

Our reaction and response controls the direction and force of the second arrow:

• If we attach ourselves to the pain of the first arrow, continue to think all of the negative thoughts it brought about, repeat the patterns of our past, dwell in the pain, and bemoan our bad luck, we send the second arrow hurtling straight into our open wound.

• If we pause, breathe, give ourselves a moment to reset, and choose a balanced response, we send the second arrow falling feebly to the ground.

Viktor Frankl, the Austrian philosopher and Holocaust survivor renowned for his contributions to existential psychology, has a brilliant framing for this:

"Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response."

Our power is in the space that we can create between stimulus and response.

Creating that space is the key to avoiding the second arrow.

As Frankl famously said, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

So the next time you encounter an uncontrollable negative event in your life—when you're struck by that painful first arrow—consider the parable of the two arrows.

The first arrow may have hurt, but the second arrow is always optional.

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@niko_pandey @PaudelLuna @uiowa 🥹🥹🥹🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 A DREAM!!!! Congratulations to @luna_paudel !!!

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@rrosshhh305 @StoriesImg @Inside_TheMatch Congratulations! 🎈

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@AtashaJordan Yesss 🙌🏼

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Thank you so much everyone!!!!

[Mihika Nepal @mnepal25]

Grateful for every single day that led me here. So, so happy to have matched into Psychiatry!!! #match2023

[Mihika Nepal @mnepal25]

@awsumpowers Congratulations! 🙌🏼

[Mihika Nepal @mnepal25]

@DrMystique Congratulations!!!!! ❤️

[Saul Levin, MD, MPA @SaulLevinMD]

Congratulations to all residents who matched on #Match2023. This is a major milestone to many who have had a lifelong dream of becoming a physician and working to support and improve the health and wellbeing of others. Long and fulfilling careers await you!

[Mihika Nepal @mnepal25]

@awsumpowers Happy to help out!

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@niko_pandey @luna_paudel Congratulations Luna diiii!!!!

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@SadiqNaveed Psychiatry! 😊

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@Seema_15585134 Best of Luck! ❤️

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@chukwudiagbor Congratulations!!!!!

[Foods & Flavors from Nepal @jyotirgamoy]

“Lwang ko phool” are the aromatic flower bud growing in a tree. The name cloves comes from Latin “clavus,” meaning nail, as cloves resembles small nails. In Sanskrit it is called Deva Kusuma, a flower for deity. Aside from its culinary use, Nepalese chew cloves to freshen palate.

[Laura Marston @Kidfears99]

Your daily reminder that a 3-month supply of the insulin I need to survive is priced at $2,267.99.

The exact same 3-month supply was priced at $175 when my insulin was first released 27 years ago.

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

To our friends in Turkey and Syria — our love, thoughts, and prayers are with you all. This is for those who are suffering and for the helpers that are working tirelessly to save lives and bring hope.
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Partita by Adnan Saygun #songsofcomfort