[Sundaycommunity] Paul

[Brian Shaughnessy]

Paul, I think I know what you might be going through from when I had my
what I call a "nervous breakdown" on March 19/96.  Does that date ring any
bells?  Like the Feast of St. Joseph (the Worker?), two days after Rita and
Gabe and I went to the St. Patrick's Day parade and they had their usual
fine time, while I was going through the motions, all ground down by
something new at work that wasn't working and it never occurred to me just
to switch back to how I had many times done it, a course that I knew better
than anyone.

I phoned in and got my "Chair" and told him I'd been teaching too long and
needed a change and he told me not to be hasty.  He seemed to be very
familiar with problems of this kind.  To go see my doctor {Bill Watson] and
get myself sorted out and that's what Rita and I were then went about doing.

I don't believe in suicide, but that morning was the closest I came to
really thinking about it.  I still had to get dressed after I hung up and
remember how choosing and putting on each article of clothing took
forever.  Bill phoned a prescription for something in to a nearby
pharmacy.  Diazepam I think.  Took one tiny little pill and then Rita and I
walked about 10 minutes down to a restaurant at Bloor & Bathurst to have
breakfast.

Would you believe by the time we got there I felt almost completely back to
normal !  From that one little pill that I could tell didn't want me
staying on for long.

But I was such a babe in the woods as far as mental problems and the very
powerful drugs they had up their medical sleeves that I knew nothing about!

        Brian S.

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aptYLJC,Twbd,ttM

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 3:02 PM Paul McAuley via Sundaycommunity <
sundaycommunity at lists.integralshift.ca> wrote:

> Hi Sunday Community,
> As you know I had a rough February and was in the hospital for a week.
> Various problems. Anyway, recovery is very slow and I informed Bill Watson
> that I really am not available for the foreseeable future...maybe we will
> see in the Fall.
> Thanks for your prayers and thoughts and well wishes. I am not taking
> phone calls generally except from family and Spiritans. I am trying to
> conserve the little energy I have to work from home on urgent Spiritan
> business and of course much of my time is also consumed with medical stuff.
> Things that I used to do in 10 minutes now take an hour. Anyway, I read the
> email from the community but mostly wont reply.
> By the way, interesting discussion on why people leave Church - nobody in
> my family is a practicing Catholic. But my sister and her daughter who got
> baptized go to the United Church.
> Anyway, see you all sometime- who knows when.
> Fr. Paul
>
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