"It wasn't because I was insane and so could not be the father of her children.
It was because of who she regarded as responsible for my insanity: a certain specific person.
I won't tell you who that is, but that same person put one of the UCSC Physics Department's tenured professors into a psychiatrist's office.
The very instant that same professor laid eyes on me my first term, he asked me to speak privately in his office with his door shut, explained that he too experienced chronic depression, then urged me to see a p-doc to get antidepressants.
Many years later, when I was in grad school and that same professor was there on the UCSC Physics faculty, he finally told me that he had been taking antidepressants for the specific reason that that person drove him to suicidal ideation."
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 20.4 ms ] thread"It wasn't because I was insane and so could not be the father of her children.
It was because of who she regarded as responsible for my insanity: a certain specific person.
I won't tell you who that is, but that same person put one of the UCSC Physics Department's tenured professors into a psychiatrist's office.
The very instant that same professor laid eyes on me my first term, he asked me to speak privately in his office with his door shut, explained that he too experienced chronic depression, then urged me to see a p-doc to get antidepressants.
Many years later, when I was in grad school and that same professor was there on the UCSC Physics faculty, he finally told me that he had been taking antidepressants for the specific reason that that person drove him to suicidal ideation."