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IN REAL TIME

In Real Time – VII

There is no real Ending.

It is a pause.

By Rajam Ramamurthy, MD

seems like the hundredth time I am attempting to working, not driving, not having computer access and many more
It write this last chapter so I don’t leave you reader in restrictions began to weigh on him and he would sit quietly for long

limbo. I am on a flight to England, the first travel
periods. One of the interventions that helped was a referral to a
across time zones since N’s illness that started in Jan- psychotherapist who was a specialist in helping with depression
uary 2016. I want to share with you an incredible phase of recovery under these circumstances. I was at the first meeting with the ther-
of which I had a fleeting glimpse in June 2016, that progressed rap- apist. She again invited me to sit in after few sessions she had just
idly like a fog was lifting off a valley. N was beginning to sleep better with N. She suggested that N needs more independence, he should
for long hours. I could also get him to sleep in the afternoons. As drive, have computer access. There is a simulation driving test that
the fog lifted and his thinking became normal the realization of not was suggested which N took and passed with flying colors. The first

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