Perhaps I have read too much personality websites (that aren't run by mental health professionals, very often according to the authors themselves). 🤯
Anyway, you might want to read my related post from 4 years ago. 🧘♂️🤗
Hehe...perhaps so. Yikes, I read your post, and that is a sad situation indeed with your friend. Unfortunately, most doctors create more problems than they help. Very few have any idea how to actually help people to heal. What became of him? 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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Several months after I published that post, he's basically stuck with looking for a job where he can utilize his college degree, get a good salary, and where his employers and colleagues would be kind to him. 🤔 However, when he has episodes (in terms of mental disorders) such as being very distrustful of the people in his workplace, he will quit his job soon after even if (he admits that) his colleagues and employers said or did nothing bad to him. 🤯 There's also the problem (also after that post) about him wanting to finish his master's degree program for which he already failed some academic requirements, but that's another story for now. 🧘♂️
I !HOPE that you also read the comments in the comments section there (such as those from Peter, Zoltan, and Ahmad). 🤗
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Ah, I see, and that's unfortunate. I imagine that it's not easy for him, or those around him. I didn't have much time last night, since it was already late, so I didn't read the comments. I'll take a peek now, though. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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In my experience, just talking to him by reading his messages (and listening to his calls) and giving him useful advice as a form of (social) support almost doesn't help him. 🤯 I know that the only people who can really help him are his family members (definitely) and professionals in the field of mental health (depends on the consultant). 🧘♂️
I wonder what the results of your "comments peeking" are though. 😅
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Ah, yes, I see, and I'm sure that's a bit frustrating for you. Yep, that's probably true, especially family,
When I went to look at the comments, I realized that I had apparently already read them...lol! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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He has the habit of sending me the very same messages that he already sent me weeks or months ago, such as the problems that he continues to experience or the questions that I already answered him. 🤯 He even tries to remind me of what I said before that "things change over time", such that he expects me to change my response to the same messages that he sends me over and over. 🤯 I wonder how he remembers certain statements from me but not others, and then use them to pressure me into trying to help him again (in a different way). 😐
Since you have read those comments, you might want to either talk about them on this conversation or reply to them directly. 😏
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That sounds like an extraordinarily frustrating experience. You have more patience that I'd likely have.
Well, yes, I could, but I don't have a particular reason to do so at the moment. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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