Doctor Google

-


 

Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have

I've been unable to sleep lately 

"Insomnia you could catch?"


Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have

I like cleaning obsessively 

"Is it OCD that has hatched?" 


Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have

I don't like going out at all

"Social Anxiety's in your bag" 


Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have

It's like two people living in my head

"Bipolar disorder, you trash"


Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have

I suffer from excessive heavy breathing  

"Anxiety, is that what's in your stash?"


Hello Doctor Google 

Please tell me what I have 

I'm sad 24x7 

"Congratulations, with depression you have a match!"


Hello Doctor Google

Please tell me what I have

I get traumatic flashbacks

"PTSD, is it that?"


Hello Doctor Google

Please keep your advice away

Give me the closest clinic's number 

I need to make sure I'm okay.

                                                            ~Kuhu

Hey everyone! On the occasion of ONE YEAR OF #faltufriday posts, I decided to post this piece of poetry I had penned down a while ago. 

When I was writing this poem, the central idea I had in mind was to tackle the issue of misdiagnosis. Most people tend to google their symptoms (be it physical or mental) and more often than not, assume that they suffer from a particular malady without actually reading more or getting diagnosed by a doctor. This has great repercussions-which I will be talking about next week(Stay Tuned!)

Like I have mentioned in my earlier posts, I am not a person who "gets" literature and actually goes deep into the meaning of writings so I tried keeping this a light one. I also wanted to address the stereotypical assumptions we make about certain mental health disorders without really knowing their actual meaning, causes and cures. 

Lastly, this was a 2 a.m. thought caused due to annoyance from social media and it's fake outlook towards different health disorders and how they're glorified so ✌😗✌

Anyways, that was it for today! Hope y'all enjoyed it! Don't forget to drop your views on it in the comments below :) 

The response on my previous post <<3

Also, please don't forget to share it with your friends and family for more content, every friday! Thank you all so much for all the love!!

Signing off,

Kuhu :)

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Blah Days

-
Image
  Some days rule: You feel like the most productive person in the world, everything seems to go your way and life feels good; you're on Cloud 9. Some days suck: They make you feel sad and all you want to do on those days is curl up into your blanket and wait for the day to end. And some days, are simply, blah: The middle ground. Blah days are ones where you don't feel your best - something just feels off; things don't seem to snap into place and the very idea of getting it into place leaves you with lethargy. But why are they important? Why do most of us experience it, regularly? Because these, unexpectedly, are the "scariest days": they make you question your current lifestyle, your environment, your life. I don't like the above thought. Instead, I like to look at them as perspective days. Blah days are those which help you realise what you're doing with life and what your goals are. See, when you're in a state of enjoyment or morose-ness, chances are...
Read more

"I'm Traumatised"

-
Image
Recently, I was talking to a bunch of people and ranting about the Hindi syllabus of ICSE . For those who went through the system, you and I both know the struggle of reading Sukhi daali and Deepdan. For those who didn't, just be glad. The thing that irked me the most about that conversation was that they kept referring to the chapters as "traumatic." And I realised that this wasn't the first time such an incident occurred in front of me. By introspecting my conversations with people, I realised the term was trivialised, simply because they didn't know what it meant . Google defines Trauma as an emotional response caused by severe distressing events that are outside the normal range of human experiences. Take a second to read the underlined words: severe, distressing, outside normal. Trauma is a strong word. Unfortunately, it has become ubiquitous in our lexicon, applied liberally to describe an ever-widening spectrum of experiences. When you use this word in ...
Read more

The Broken Hot Chocolate Machine

-
Image
 I've been in college for about over a month now. In the 40 days I've spent here, I've visited the food hall over 100 times - of which the Hot chocolate machine has been broken for over 90. Bombay's humidity was quickly replaced by Boston's "Fall" (it's winter guys) and the only thing helping me through the transition was a cup of hot chocolate every morning. But about 2 weeks in, the hot chocolate machine broke.       Initially, a piece of paper, closely stuck by tape, lay pressed against the machine: " Hot Chocolate Machine is Broken! "  4 weeks in, it's now a laminated sheet of paper, carefully stuck to the machine. Someone took the time to type it out onto a computer, print it, cut it, have it laminated, and stick it up to the machine. Do you know what they could be doing in that time? (Hint: getting the machine fixed!) This post is not about the machine. (Obviously Kuhu, it's a Mental Health blog - get to the point!) We often pro...
Read more

Mental Health Illnesses=Cool?

-
Image
  Hey Everyone!! Welcome to Mental Health Awareness Month! So, we all may have a come across with at least one person in our lives who might have used the name of a mental disorder incorrectly. I've had my share too. I have seen a lot of people claim that they are "depressed" or have "anxiety" without really knowing what it is. Took me a while to understand why they said stuff like this, but when found out the reason I was appalled. To look cool, duh "Seriously?!" That was my exact reaction-in every tone imaginable. Sarcastic, shocked, surprised, amazed, aghast and what not! This very encounter is the reason why I chose to write to write on this topic and throw some light on why having a mental illness IS NOT "COOL". For starters, why would you want to diagnose yourself with something you don't have? You wouldn't do that if  it were a physical illness, right? You wouldn't say that you've gotten a fracture when its simply a spr...
Read more