Skip to main content

POST-EMOTIONAL NARCOLEPSY


Isaiah stood and then, he stooped;
A seasoned prophet for the umpteenth time, absorbing a message from his Master:
‘Isaiah can you hear me?
I will come to heal the broken-hearted,
Yes, all of them
I will come (and Isaiah sensed him smile)
To set at liberty the bruised in spirit
So tell them,
Tell the bruised reeds to come, with their broken hearts, worn bodies and all;
I will heal all!’
Isaiah stood from his stooped position once again,
Flipped his brown parchment over howbeit, skeptically;
He had to continue now:
For excitedly, the Lord was saying:
‘Emotional narcoleptics can be healed of their visceral pain
They can all have restored circadian rhythms, if they so choose’
Isaiah looked up, this time with a glint of understanding in his eyes
The people  around were staring at him as if they could perceive an aura of  imminent madness,
He seemed to be talking to himself, but no, he was having a discussion with Yahweh
‘But when are you coming?
When do I tell them you’re coming?’
‘Isaiah, you just do this
Make me proud by delivering this message
And when you see me, you’d smile in full understanding’


This is a sequel to last Monday’s post on emotional narcolepsy.
Emotional narcolepsy isn’t normal, no one should be emotionally asleep due to deep-seated pain or anguish. There is a healer in the house! Part of his mandate is the restoration of emotional health.
Freedom calls out to us people! Let us embrace it




Comments

Popular posts from this blog

WANNABE INTERN

Week 2 Message to the Pre-Intern: don’t lose hope! Week 2, for me, was 2 months post-induction. This was when the wait began to sink in. You mean I’ve been home for two whole months? By now, I was literally chewing on my fingernails. Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t scared of getting a space, but I certainly wasn’t confident about any place anymore. That is when I began to write this book. Today is the 12th of September and I sit at the dining table in my parents’ house, typing at 11:27pm (because well, I have an editing job to finish up, but mostly because I don’t have to go anywhere tomorrow morning). If I don’t want to, I don’t even have to take a bath tomorrow morning because well, I can stay indoors all day! (I most likely will stay indoors, except for those few minutes when I step out to buy hot akara for my akamu). I am spent. You know, I have applied to a couple of places now. Let me start with the first: LS Health Service Commission At the State Health servic

CLINICALLY: CLERKING AND CLECKING

A typical medical practitioner knows all about this process of clerking, this is basically the first thing he does when attending to a patient i.e. he clerks. Clinically, clerking involves: 1.       History Taking- involves taking demographic data, noting the main presenting problems, past medical history, history of main presenting complaint, family history, occupational history, drug history, alcohol history e.t.c. Basically, it helps in determination of symptoms. 2.       Physical Examination- is useful in the elicitation of signs of the disease in question. 3.       Provisional and differential diagnosis: the clinical history and physical examination conducted will help the clinician arrive at provisional diagnosis, from which he arrives at a differential diagnosis. 4.       Management Plan- involves investigative procedures (e.g. haematological investigations) as well as a treatment plan for the diagnosed disease. How about clecking? Clecking is not a word that’s us
ALL THESE ENDLESS STUDYING !… On exams and fear All these comparing and measuring ourselves by ourselves! Its so wrong and self-limiting. All these numerous, bulky, endless exams in medical school can get even the strongest of us  jittery! However, the most successful person isn’t the one whose prime goal is a 100% on the scoresheet but those with the excellent mentality that to be a good doctor, you have to have the requisite knowledge. Just to remind us of our prime focus,  which is true excellence that comes, not from passing an exam from excelling superbly at what you do:  “Medicine is more than the application of scientific facts to treat people. If your highest goal is to simply pass the exams, you may still succeed but the journey will be fraught with much anguish. However, if you remember that someday, you can relieve the suffering of one individual or save just a person’s life from what you’d learn each day as you study, all your efforts will take a new meaning and purp