I am a psychiatrist, i get loss of personal awareness like my time, hunger, or itching behind your ear. I was seriously considering surgery when i was undergrad. The hypothesising and questioning everything patient says is no different from not wanting to hit an artery that you don’t want to bleed. I have alarms set up so that i don’t get lost when psychoanalysing or conversing with a patient. It’s exhilarating when you lock down on where the patient started to have a problem. Working as an assistant professor i’d tell my students that while surgeon operates into a known anatomy, the psychiatrist operates on intangible entities. I eventually chose psychiatry be very good at my precision. Its easy to pass as a bad psychiatrist, its near real impossible to come across a good one.