Do you work with mentally ill people?

I mean, truly (have the papers and a diagnosis) mentally ill? It's exhausting.

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JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

No. Yet I work with mathematicians and programmers and they have their issues. I have issues, too. But no papers.

SW-User

LOL. I do it for a living. It often drains me.

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

I do math and programming for a living. It invigorates me. When I come home I think about math on my free time. It sometimes keeps me up at night.

SW-User

@JoyfulSilence: That's not mental illness. That's genius!

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

I think you have to be a bit nutty to be a genius. I am a bit at times. But I am no genius. Trust me. Yet I did prove relativistic time dilation in my head once while walking back to my car from the train platform. I had seen some of it before. But I did the math in my head again.

SW-User

@JoyfulSilence: Wow! *Mind blown*

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

I confess, though, when I got to my car I grabbed an old train schedule and scribbled out the equations to verify I was on the right track. I was.

SW-User

@JoyfulSilence: Ha! Nice pun!

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

LOL! I had no idea I had made a pun. I was just writing naturally with no thought of puns. It was pure coincidence! That is so funny!

Gosh, it felt good to smile right now. I confess I was feeling low about something a minute ago. The issue has not gone away, and may never go away, and I may just have to learn to accept it. But it was nice to forget about it for a second and laugh and smile about something.

Thanks. Sometimes its the little things, at the right time, that matter.