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Mental health problem or one of the grieving stages? Death and denial in Poland. [93]
Oh boy. That's pretty bad. Think of all the thought, planning and effort it took to execute this little exercise. That's a whole lot more than just some denial. And certainly her condition is not an act if she's going to this extent.
I've been thinking about this in regards to this poor girl...
Lets assume for the moment that indeed people have inside of them some mechanism of denial which is automatically switched on in order to preserve us from severe psychological harm; we go into denial so as to prevent ourselves further damage of complete breakdown. Ok? Now, for this girl's mind to trigger such a reaction and go into that -what we'll call "brain safety mode"- over the death of an old and ill father, this would seem to me to indicate that she likely had some sort of serious issues even before her father died and these recent events. I mean, sure, a loved one's death can be traumatic -devastating even- but for her to go off the deep end over it certainly seems extreme in the extreme, an overreaction to the expected event. I think this shows that the death of her father may be immaterial here and in reality may have had little to do with her present condition; if not his death then something else was likely going to set her off anyway. (Much as NoNonsense didn't need any particular traumatic event to set her off into loopy mode.) Does this make sense? There was nothing else in this girl's prior life that would indicate that she was, um, a little '
off'? No other instances when you thought she was maybe not normal or completely balanced?
This is as intriguing as a movie case. If I were you I'd consider contacting a psychiatrist on your own and buying an hour with them and telling them this girl's story. Maybe you could introduce this person to the girl as a friend and just get them talking?...
