Rule 1. Don’t talk about mental health, especially when it’s someone you know personally.
Rule 2. Never talk about Mental Health – It stirs up feelings of resentment, anger, guilt and helplessness towards the person who is ill.
Rule 3. Review Rule 1
It sucks but talking about someone’s fragile state of minds is a scary topic. I am totally unequipped to handle it when someone freaks out on me and starts acting “weird”.
There’s an overwhelming feeling of self-preservation that sweeps over me, almost like I think the person’s corrupted mental state is contagious.
My initial instinct is to run away, throw up a drone and snip them from a distance. Unfortunately, tactical moves from Ghost Recon® Wildlands will not work here.
How does one handle someone showing signs of massive memory loss, chronic paranoia, irrational thoughts and threats to self?
One of my heart’s desires is to walk away from internet connected technologies.
Sounds like career suicide for an Information Security Professional and a little hard to see how I could ever untangle my encrypted connections. My thoughts go back to my first glimpse into tech, as a kid, into Mr. Do! , one day after leaving Bakers Arms, Leyton, East London and heading to E10 7LS.
Arcade folk who didn’t even know my name would eventually call me Mr. Do! because I was always hitting high scores. I had worked out the routines and backdoors.
Who knew my backdoor talents would bury itself so deep into my Digital DNA.
Anyhow the irony of posting something like this on a blog is evident so don’t go there, Sherlock.
I’ve had a touch of the off-line life and I know I can thrive there, especially using a different part of my brain but for now, I’m on it 15-18 hours a day Work, Family, Love and Play.
In the past, I’ve spent hours on the phone trying to show someone how to configure an email client.
Normally intelligent individuals suddenly become dummies when faced with anything “technical”.
Individuals are routinely breached because they are either
Too busy to care about basic hygiene (tech bits)
Have no password management skills
Have no trusted technical support partner
Do not monitor their set-up
…or most importantly, not bothered.
These same individuals take extreme cause with their daily online banking.
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