Mental
When the a good friend broke news of how she's treating a current mental illness, I got a shock. Knowing her for years, I never expected a strong, independent person would succumb to this. Honestly speaking, I felt something wasn't right with her a few months back when we were chatting on MSN. Her words were erratic and the mix of anger and fear displayed in her chat made me start to grow suspicious.
However, it's not right to tell a friend off saying, "Hey, are you alright? You sound like your mind is not in a good state. Are you sure you're not imagining things?" I never expected the root cause was how she pressured herself too much to excel in her degree while working part time. I guess she could not take the heavy load.
As I try to recall now:
1) She mentioned a bunch of American kids called her name and laughed at her in the MRT.
2) Her neighbours are peeping at her when she's asleep.
3) People in the neighbourhood and workplace are talking about her and me.
The last point strengthen my suspicions as I never appeared at her workplace nor home. Furthermore, she mentioned the people knew my name where in the first place, she never told them about me before.
Suddenly, she disappeared for a couple of months until I saw her on MSN today. I'm not sure she's in a good state but she's currently receiving treatment. That of course is a good thing as probably her parents discovered her condition early.
I hope she can fully recover and though the medication she's on is making her gain weight. I told her she needs to cure herself through determination and as a friend, my support will always be with her. As for the weight issues, its nothing as weight loss can be achieve easily via healthy methods of course.
It's ironic as I always try to imagine myself or try to be a loony, a schizo or some psychotic human being. It never occured to me that my friend could fell into this mental trap. It's disheartening as how this could disrupt her future, her career.
Despite the bad economic times, I realise the need to survive in my job yet learn how to relax. I believe I'm lucky because I always have this inept ability to relax myself while at workplace. 12 hours a day, I can still squeeze a little self entertainment to distract my mind from work.
And of course, that is what I'm doing now at my cubicle - blogging while grooving to music. Well, I guess I should continue my work and look forward to the weekend (again).
However, it's not right to tell a friend off saying, "Hey, are you alright? You sound like your mind is not in a good state. Are you sure you're not imagining things?" I never expected the root cause was how she pressured herself too much to excel in her degree while working part time. I guess she could not take the heavy load.
As I try to recall now:
1) She mentioned a bunch of American kids called her name and laughed at her in the MRT.
2) Her neighbours are peeping at her when she's asleep.
3) People in the neighbourhood and workplace are talking about her and me.
The last point strengthen my suspicions as I never appeared at her workplace nor home. Furthermore, she mentioned the people knew my name where in the first place, she never told them about me before.
Suddenly, she disappeared for a couple of months until I saw her on MSN today. I'm not sure she's in a good state but she's currently receiving treatment. That of course is a good thing as probably her parents discovered her condition early.
I hope she can fully recover and though the medication she's on is making her gain weight. I told her she needs to cure herself through determination and as a friend, my support will always be with her. As for the weight issues, its nothing as weight loss can be achieve easily via healthy methods of course.
It's ironic as I always try to imagine myself or try to be a loony, a schizo or some psychotic human being. It never occured to me that my friend could fell into this mental trap. It's disheartening as how this could disrupt her future, her career.
Despite the bad economic times, I realise the need to survive in my job yet learn how to relax. I believe I'm lucky because I always have this inept ability to relax myself while at workplace. 12 hours a day, I can still squeeze a little self entertainment to distract my mind from work.
And of course, that is what I'm doing now at my cubicle - blogging while grooving to music. Well, I guess I should continue my work and look forward to the weekend (again).
posted by Psychotic_Puppy at
8:00 PM
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