Saturday 19 December 2015

Here, you aren't disturbed until you're so, so mad...

If you live in my part of the world, pray to your Lord that you stay mentally healthy, because I swear down, conditions like clinical depression, post-traumatic stress, bipolar, or seasonal affective disorders are so incomprehensible to our ordinary minds. Suffering from any of these will be the riskiest thing to happen to you.

Here, your every reaction is deliberate until it is so obvious that you're disturbed. In fact, our interpretation of your condition is in the following insensitive remarks:

DEFAA TEYE-TEYLU. (He's just putting up a deceptive show). DEFA HAMADI (He's just being rude). AFFERAM LA, BAYILEN KO MU HARROU (Let him commit suicide for all we care). SU SORNAY DINA BAYII DOF-DOFLU BI (He'll stop acting insane when he's tired) KI HAMUT BOORPAM (He's just so full of himself).

Before we know it, you're gone completely mentally deranged. But even at that, we wouldn't act until you start talking nonsense, eating crap and working about butt-naked, that's the time we'll realise that you really and truly need medical help. SMH

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