Antw: Advice
Jente Algoed (jente.algoed@planetinternet.be)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 00:38:56 -0500
maybe these sounds are alike to the strange sounds the main caracter in "De
Daumier-Smith's blue period" hears at night?
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>Van: "LR Pearson, Arts 99" <lp9616@bristol.ac.uk>
>Aan: Bananafish <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
>Onderwerp: Advice
>Datum: din, 14 dec 1999 12:42
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>This is only slightly connected with Salinger, but I would really value
>some advice.
>
>I live in a big student house where rooms are sectioned off with very
>thin plasterboard. As a result, it is difficult not to know about what
>goes on in other people's lives. There is a girl on my corridor who is
>clearly suffering some kind of emotional distress - I hear her crying
>(really wailing) all night and then the next day she is really cheerful
>seeming. Kind of manic depressive symptoms, I guess, although it is a
>different kind of manic phase than my friend who I know is manic
>depressive. She is on some kind of medication which I assume is for
>this problem. My problem is, that I would feel much better if I could
>speak to her about what is going on. It would mean that I didn't have
>to creep around sort of pretending that nothing is happening, but I
>wouldn't have to intrude when there is a problem (I have offered my
>company before and it is not wanted / needed). But I don't quite know
>if I have any right to know what is going on. Would it be insensitive /
>selfish / patronising to ask. Should I just stay out of it. Should I
>ask? If so, how do I ask?
>
>Sorry to treat the list like a sort of collective agony aunt, but I am
>aware that there are people on the list who have experienced mental
>illness themselves or through others and so might have a better view on
>what to do. I hope this post doesn't offend anyone - I haven't really
>expressed myself very clearly. Sorry!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lucy-Ruth
>
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>LR Pearson, Arts 99
>lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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