Best of the Transparent Hummingbird
cheapens the professions insulting to those who are genuinely suffering
stress, you go thorugh some bad periods, you make bad judgment calls, sure and yes, they are extentuating don’t call that a mental illness –
rich go and get an expesnive excuse cheapens the p
who wake up everyay and live one day at a time send an email every 3 or 4 days
classes in which
myth that even our departments
hate the straitlaced — tab
overmedicalisation of every eprsonal issue but i love normal it is: one day i caught myself in the corridor listening to people discuss dosage and finding myself chiming in and then
incredibly smart people who are all also incredibly neurotic not all of whom are always socially well adapted all of whom are obssessive but also insecure about their work and all miserable because everyone is miserable in grad school and under great stress, because grad school is stressful and there’s no money and the job market is bleak and you put them all into one department and also the same dormitories where the insecurity and fear and stress contagion - passing back and forth you have ot provide mental health faciilites
is this happening to me?! am i ook lets see what’s avai i remember when i first moved back to singapore i thought well it would be nice to have a therapist here just as we all did back int he us imh? it’s just down the road from where i live, right? i even have a bus from my door step! i went and took a look at the waiitng room: weekday - when do working people have time tog o but their case load is already overwhelming what are whingey people like me who can afford to go private doing there taking up the space i went once and i had a good look at the waiting room and then i came home and talked to my in law who at the time was a consultant one of the things i loved about