Monday, August 10, 2009

I feel good

It was a happy day
I met doctor Anita (name changed)
an eye specialist at a well known hospital
welcoming, cheerful and forever smiling
she spoke of her obsessions in detail to me
she hates crowd, being in it or out
she fears it a lot
as a child
when she went to a crowded place
with her father
she would always end up fainting
she could never decipher the reason
till four years ago
when she met up with Doctor Thomas
because of her constant hunger for air
she has claustrophobia
more than 10 people is crowd for her
she has to sit at the entrance or exit
of any room
because the mind knows
that it will be the easiest way to escape
in case of lack of oxygen
she could not cross the road
because of the fear of cars touching her
she was never able to sit in the aircraft earlier
because of the fear of lack of oxygen
and of the plane crashing
she would prefer to stand at the end of a queue
because of the belief that
most amount of oxygen will be available there
she would never be able to go a restaurant
because most of them have a closed space
and her mind would immediately calculate
the amount of oxygen available to each person
she would start panicking and feel suffocated
if two cars came on each side of her car
she could not walk through a narrow corridor
because the walls would appear to be falling on her
she was scared of travelling in the lift
because of the fear of not being able to breathe properly
when feels the fear
she starts sweating
her heart starts pounding
extreme amount of restlessness.

but for the past four years
she has been under the medication of Doctor Thomas
and she is really thankful to him for having given her a new life
the medicines have calmed her down a lot
and made her live life as a normal human being
she completely believes in medicine
having helped her come back
to her family and friends.

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