Stress or what?

A mental illness is a condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling or mood. Such conditions may affect someone's ability to relate to others and function each day. Each person will have different experiences, even people with the same diagnosis. 

Some of the more common disorders are depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. Symptoms may include changes in mood, personality, personal habits and/or social withdrawal. Mental health problems may be related to excessive stress due to a particular situation or series of events

Those are the definitions and symptoms of mental disorder.  Sitting in this office especially this unit, I came to know many people who come here for counseling  or disciplinary action due to their mental disorder cases. Some are genuine but many are just simple taking advantage. They may be  have little "uneasiness" of their minds  ( we all do ) but they just "feed" this attitude to make it rampant and finally became a nuisance to their organization thus needed to be called down to this office for counseling. These people argue a lot during counseling even though they are in fault but somehow continue to deny that their actions are bringing problem to the heads of their organization. They can talk..really talk big. They never accept their faults..they blame others. Luckily I am not the counselor...poor man he is. He had to put up with this kind of people and are supposed to "cure" them. However when you have reached the age of 40 or even 3 months before your pension, it will be futile to counsel them. They cannot embrace the word "change".

In my case, I have known this lady for nearly 6 years. She continues using an excuse that she has this bipolar disorder thus giving her the licence to provoke people, to insult her administrators, to chid her bosses, to downgrade her colleagues, to spread hatred and lies on her FB. Every time she was called to clarify her action, she would say its her "other half" did that, blaming others not to understand her and even after spending 24  hours in local lock up for spreading lies about her colleagues,  could not slow her down. What an exasperating person I have ever met in my life. 

I believe no one could run away from being tested by Allah. Some are given financial problem, some are having marriage problem, some problem due to children of their own, due to all kind of sicknesses, some having problem in work place, some with parents or sibling...the list will be on and on. However, for me, please come back to our nature of our creation. Allah creates this world as a test to see which one from all of us pass with flying colour results or fail miserably. I am writing this with fear that Allah will test my words. Nevertheless, the best solution is come back to Allah, the right path, even though it is difficult to proceed at first, because at the end of the road, there will be some thing good waiting for you. Believe me, its worth it.

Till then.