The LAST Cure– Setting your mind free?
Dearest Friend,
Two weeks ago, I was meeting my best friend, Julia. I was busy with counseling and meditation articles recently and it has been a while since I saw her.
Julia told me that she had quitted her job, as a manager, earlier in Jun this year, as she could not stand the life of working 14 to 16 hours a day any longer. With the manpower cutting down in her department, stress was part of her everyday life.
It is not easy to work in a corporate. I had worked in few before and once the pressure is down from the top you can feel it anywhere else as long as you are reporting in that structure.
Julia has been facing great pressure from a broken relationship since beginning of this year and now with no job, no career, and no money on hand. She is in her mid-thirties where she should be at the greatest height of her career, she told me she felt like a failure, failing in life and now with her career.
All of us know, in this kind of economy it is not easy to find a decent job not to mention stress, pressure and tension going on, day-in, day-out, in the middle management. In my conversation with Julia, she has started to show signs of depression and anxiety, she starts to think of all the bad thing that is going to happen to her, what if her mother find out that she had quitted, will she let her family down? What about the brother who always look up upon her? What if she had to remain like this forever? Will she ask for food stamp eventually? Then she told me she began to experience some panic attack especially in the morning and was even admitted to the A&E in the hospital one of the days.
I was 90 percent sure that Julia is facing depression and anxiety.
“I was slaving myself away and now I ended up with nothing, am I worth living?” Julia says, she continues, almost in tears “Seriously, even if I am dead at this moment I feel relieved.”
Now, I am 100 percent sure that, my friend here really needs help, she is not going to get anywhere unless some guidance is given. She really needs to boost up her confidence, self-esteem and regain her old-self. But how can I tell her? I am listening to her as a friend not as a counselor or psychologist moreover it is a big NO-NO to treat a friend. Luckily, Julia knows me as an un-conventional disciple of a great master but not a counselor.
I cannot ask her to go for a therapist or psychologist because I know how much is that cost (at least thousands) and it is definitely not for someone who has been out of job for a few months.
So I passed her this LINK which cost less than the coffee and cakes that both of us were having that day.
After that I didn’t heard from Julia for some time and I was pretty concerned about Julia, when the law of attraction works and she called, to meet me up at the usual cafe. It was a manic Monday and Julia turns out much happier than I thought. In fact, she is going to meet up a date for dinner tonight and has only one hour to spare with me, what a friend I have
Sincerely, Xunler