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WCDT Strips 3161 to 3165 (22-26 February 2016)
Morituri:
Oh good lord.
Momo in today's strip reminds me so much of one of the creepiest things any of my friends has ever done. Well okay maybe not the creepiest, but at least in the top ten.
I had a flatmate in college who was a bit. um. Well we used to say he was "wound too tight" because he was always over-stressing over whatever came up. Anything that happened was a major crisis.
And then at the end of the semester there were final exams. We got one week between end of classes and start of exams, just for review and study, and he DID NOT SLEEP for the entire week. More caffeine. More books. More practice problems. Writing in the dead of night. etc. Sometimes he was waking me up in the night to talk about the material from the classes we had together, until I told him rather firmly not to.
So he took his exams (I never found out whether he did well or badly on them) and came back to the house, and still couldn't sleep. Of course this was another major crisis. One that kept him awake nights.
Until a few days later he wasn't there in the morning, and then I got a call from the police.
He had gotten arrested because he had been breaking into the homes of total strangers to watch THEM sleep. :-o
He wasn't still in school the following semester.
Method of Madness:
I do hope he got help.
Morituri:
Next time I saw him he had a prescription or two and was talking to a therapist sometimes. It felt weird talking to him, like he was sort of someone else. Someone not quite as razor-sharp smart or creative, but a whole heck of a lot calmer and happier.
I felt for him, in a there-but-for-the-grace way. I'd had some mental trouble myself dealing with some crap about ten years earlier, and the stuff they gave me then had made me feel like my head was full of felt. Much better drugs were available by the time he was going through it, but they were still clearly "taking the edge off" in more ways than one. I hope he managed to straighten it out enough to get off the scripts.
I hear they have even better drugs now. But I have no experience of them, thank goodness. It could still happen again though. It nearly did when my dad passed.
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, Ysobel!
brew:
--- Quote from: ischaemia on 26 Feb 2016, 07:13 ---Dude, Marten really needs to get fl.ux or Lux something for his phone, all that bright light is going to wreck his circadian rhythm. It's too hard to tell people not to phone in bed, but you can at least make the light a warmer, dimmer hue to lessen the impact on your sleep patterns.
S-sorry, I guess this reads more like a PSA than a post. It's all true though!
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