I am already on episode 8 and I have to say it’s not a heavy watch. While dealing with some serious subject and not looking aside at any time (depression, suicide, toxic relations), the fact that the leads are such adorable weirdos makes it so much easier to watch.

I am biased by the fact that I have watched more than one episode, but episode one was such a delight to watch, just a wonderful setup, and if I need to chose one scene it would be RiNa’s mum giving her a box of nicely cut fruit and saying “the grapes are there just to give some colour” and the smile on both women.

Thanks for the weecap @unit

I think A daily dose of sunshine was great at showing real world elements whilst still maintaining the K-drama magic. I agree it should be approached with caution due to the content but it was interesting and enjoyable as a K-drama.

It wasn’t realistic to have a nurse not being given appropriate specialist training, so needing her psychiatrist friend to fill in the gaps. There are roles where unqualified staff would be on a psychiatric ward but they have less responsibilities and expectations placed on them than nurses and psychiatrists. There are also students who have the book learning but not the hands on experience. So I feel the series is trying to show staff with a range of experiences and skills so the audience learns alongside them.

I really liked that they showed the physical impact of the emotional strain of doing this kind of work as people seem to think ‘all you do is chat with people’ how hard can that be?!

I liked the first episode but I don't think it represents the whole show.

I did binge watched all at this weekend. I found the writer did an amazing work. Such a sensitive subject and could go either side depressive or lighter then reality very easily . They somehow kept the ground with a very positive attitude! Park Bo Young is such a good choice for the story.

I watched it because its Park Bo Young and Yeon Woo Jin. I got hooked on episode 1 because I was interested on their take on bipolar disorder. I have already watched until ep4, so far I really like the characters and overall vibe of the show.
It reminds me of IOTNBO because the leads work in a psych ward. So far it has been sensitive in its dealings with the various mental health issues the patients suffer from.
I agree to watch this in small doses since there is a lot to take in per episode.

Went through it twice over the weekend (the second one obviously more of a skim through of my fav moments) but enough to say I think everyone and their mother should watch it because it's soooo gooooooood. Will def comeback later to give full thoughts

I really liked the first episode. I liked the characters, the quirks and the overall set up. I did not appreciate the haemorroid joke with doctors butt slapping an adult man. But other than that I liked all the dynamics.
The mental health issue was handled with sensitivity and I felt that the show was diligent about explaining certain issues.
But like you said I can’t binge it. May be 2-3 episodes a week might be the right pace for me.

Binge-watched this over the weekend. I also do not find the episodes heavy. Except for one episode, each episode ends with an uplifting tone, I guess, true to the daily dose of sunshine tone. I also think the mental health challenges are portrayed sensitively. Overall, a good show, and I even started doing one of the assignments (journalling my emotions) given to a patient for my own mental health.

I really liked this drama. I wouldn't say "loved" because of the subject matter. I appreciated how we got to see a lot of the mental health problems from different angles--doctors, nurses, family members and friends. Highly recommend, but you may need to only watch one or two episodes at a time because of the heaviness of some of the situations portrayed.

Is this worth watching if you're someone who works in mental health?

To begin with an aside. According to Asianwiki the literal title of this drama is: MORNING COMES TO PSYCHIATRIC WARDS TOO. (Nothing wrong with that.)

I watched episode one last night and I thought it was a very good setup episode. I came to this drama because of Jang Dong-yoon (and a follow up to his wonderful performance earlier this year in OASIS) and although he was only in a few scenes he will be terrific in the role of unconditional friend of Da-eun. I enjoyed his ‘daily dose of wisdom’.

I also enjoyed Lee Jung-eun’s Chief Nurse Song Hyo-shin. I can recall where she has played characters ‘on the edge’ and it is nice to see her in a role where she provides stability to her nurses and patients. She has seen and heard it all and won’t make snap judgements. (I am thinking if the info passed on to her from Da-eun’s former Chief Nurse in Internal Medicine.

I will recapitulate some of what I said in the drama hangout, and probably will repeat it again when I finish the show in the drama hangout (I've watched 8 episodes). But what I say here I think will apply to the first episode in particular.

As several have already said, though the subject matter is dark, the show is pretty optimistic, especially since Park Bo Young plays such a sympathetic character, so it actually is very easy to binge. However, and this is somewhat ironic in terms of episode releases, since the cases are largely self-contained, this would have been one that could have been perfectly fine with the one episode at a time release that is delaying my watch of two other shows, which will not be named here. (suppressing irritation.)

I think how one reacts to the show depends a little bit on how much one appreciates Park Bo Young as an actress (I like her!) This is apparent in this first episode, since her learning not just the ins and outs of psychiatric care (as in this first episode) but also when to be really sympathetic and when to let go, and how to balance work/life is obviously the one consistent thread running throughout this show and the whole series.

Also, though, in this first episode you see the shows approach to mental illness, which is to stress as a precipitating cause aspects of Korean society that we regular kdrama watchers are extraordinarily familiar with--overbearing Moms, bullying supervisors, exam pressures, unsympathetic husbands, etc. etc. So I guess this could either be a critique of the show or a virtue.

The critique would be its something we've seen many times before, so even though I haven't watched a show on a psychiatric ward in Korea, at times it feels clichéd or at least as if its covering old ground.

The virtue would be that the show is highlighting social problems such as bullying, exploited daughters, wives and mothers, exam stresses and the mental health trauma these problems cause not as something that can easily be cured by, say, romantic love, or revenge, or by reincarnation. So in that way its a worthy approach and good show to watch at the very least as a break from the other, more fantasy-based approaches (although as I've said, the are elements of optimistic fantasy in this one, as well.)

I am hooked already. I like it! Medical dramas are one of my catnips and the actors make it even better.

I binged in the weekend and liked it a lot. I especially liked how they used special effects to show us how the patients felt and perceived their mental illness.

The site just ate my comments for the 3rd time. SO frustrating. I’ll be back later to try again, because I have a lot to say.

The 1st ep is believable enough. I'm the opposite of Daun for crossing to the other department so I'm laughing knowing her reason.
but watching medical dramas gives me anxiety I don't know if I can finish this

Sounds so interesting, and I like the FL. I am in

Just finished watching the first episode. Looking forward to how it all unfolds.

Just on episode two. Really enjoying Yeon Woo-Jin's quirky character as a knuckle-cracking doctor who says everything that pops into his head. No impulse control at all. So it's no wonder our FL feels awkward around him. It gets interesting when the medical staff helping the patients seem to be just on the edge of 'out there' like their patients. So far it seems like Yeon Woo-jin will provide the light comic touch in a show that has some stressful moments, but delivers a lot of educational mental health 'moments' as well. Will continue watching this series.