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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy By Sue Klebold
RayBlac posted a topic in Book Club's What Are You Reading?
A little story on how I got to read this book... I am sort of impulsive by nature (working on this, I promise, though it is haaaarrrrrd) and I was going to commit one last act of impulsion sometime last month (last year , if you like). I was unable to go through with it though. Could have been the desire to get to the root of the cause that perhaps stopped me or maybe I wasn't "courageous" enough to down its contents or... I had the mixture in a cup and held it for a long time; bringing it to my lips at certain intervals and having the sickly smell of its contents fill my nostrils. I imagined myself draining the contents in a single gulp and afterwards screaming for help: Make it stop! Please, make it stop. I equally imagined my insides being corroded by the acid and dying long before I was noticed. But I think I primarily wanted to understand all what these (gesturing around me) meant and ending things like that without giving it a try wasn't enough (yet). What I did next was to empty the contents out of the cup and got rid of the container. I got back inside, got my phone and chose to "look for a way". AnyBooks was my first choice and so I typed some words pertaining to mental health and Sue Klebold's book came up. It was tagged non-fiction and was about mental health. I read through the summary of what the book was about, I downloaded it and it became my first book for the year, 2020. Now, what is A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy all about? This is a mother's story of how she lost her son by murder-suicide. You see, in the book she expressed her shock and unbelief at the actions of her son: she didn't believe him capable of such violence, she didn't know he was greatly depressed. She might have been aware of the signs - no, she saw them - but she didn't think them to be danger signs of something malevolent to happen. She thought them to be common teenager problems that would go away but how wrong she was. After that tragic incident, she has given up her life to studying everything about mental health. All these she shares in her book and I highly recommend this book to everyone because a decline in mental health can happen to anyone. For me, going through those pages was very very challenging: I could see what I was going through, what I lacked and what I wished I had, in those pages. I almost stopped reading it. I even asked myself at a certain point why I was reading the book in the first place. What was I going to gain by torturing myself in this way?? But because of the resolution I made and the desire to know what Sue had discovered and her message to everyone, I persevered. I actually finished the book today, I didn't want to let it extend to February and I am thankful. -
Three Major misconceptions about mental health in Nigeria: 1. Seeing a shrink is Oyibo behavior. 2. Mental disorder is when you are roaming the streets naked. 3. Mental disorder is a curse, sign of evil spirits and a shame to one's generation. Thus, mentally imbalanced people run their day to day life like everything is alright and become potential harm to orders physically and mentally. They get in a relationship and fall in love all without addressing their mental issues until we hear stories of domestic violence and spousal killings. The most occurring mental disorder which affects relationships is delusional disorder. "Delusional disorder, previously called paranoid disorder, is a type of serious mental illness called a "psychosis" in which a person cannot tell what is real from what is imagined. The main feature of this disorder is the presence of delusions, unshakable beliefs in something untrue or not based on reality... People with delusional disorder often can continue to socialize and function normally, apart from the subject of their delusion, and generally do not behave in an obviously odd or bizarre manner." - WebMD What does this result in? Extreme Jealousy: A person with this type of delusional disorder believes that his or her spouse or sexual partner is unfaithful.-WebMd Ring a bell? They get so jealous over imaginery things they begin to check your phones, monitor and time your calls, follow you, restrict your movement etc. Persecutory: People with this type of delusional disorder believe that they are being mistreated ...-WebMD They interprete everything into mistreatment. You are busy with work? You don't wanna talk to them. You have loss of appetite? You are rejecting their food to punish them. You get angry at their plenty issues? You have been building up to this anger because you need to be mad at them. My advice: Get them to find help if not, leave.
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