{"id":120,"date":"2013-12-16T09:10:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T09:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2013-12-26T08:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T00:59:11","slug":"someone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Someone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You always think it will happen to anyone else. Anything that has a million to one chance of happening, will happen to someone else;except the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a few friends who, for all appearances, just seemed quiet or introverted. Then I learnt that they were on medications. Medications that would help you feel good.<\/p>\n<p>A lot has happened in just the last 4-5 months.<br \/>\nMy dad passed away. In the span of 2 months, we found that my dad had diabetes, discovered stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and lost him to it.<\/p>\n<p>My mother-in-law has had a relapse of schizophrenia. My sister-in-law and father-in-law are busy looking after her and are being drained. My father-in-law&#8217;s blood pressure is also raising because of lack of rest and it is also causing his work performance to suffer.<\/p>\n<p>A new colleague in the workplace has resulted in a divide in our team and led to me being victimized for a small mistake and me losing my favorite part of my job. The disgruntlement that some of my colleagues and I share have made it hard for us to work effectively and will result in the organization as a whole suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Miscommunication and the stress have also caused me to accidentally rear end another vehicle. Resulting in a huge dent in my wallet.<\/p>\n<p>There are a slew of other things affecting me and it is weighing me down. Last Friday as I was driving home, I realized that I&#8217;m not happy. I have been feeling down and out of sorts since then.<\/p>\n<p>A close friend is not surprised, saying it&#8217;s been a real terrible year for me.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful of depression, it can get you before you realize it. It can happen to you. It only takes a series of unfortunate events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You always think it will happen to anyone else. Anything that has a million to one chance of happening, will happen to someone else;except the lottery. I have had a few friends who, for all appearances, just seemed quiet or introverted. Then I learnt that they were on medications. Medications that would help you feel &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Someone Else<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38,2,39],"tags":[40],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/someoneelse.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elijahtan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}