Another draining day at an out patient psychiatric clinic, trying to convince people to stop acting against their own selves. How amazing is the human need for self-destruction. You look in to another person’s eyes as if they are ready to defend themselves. They are ready to jump into an offensive stance, as if they are afraid for if they are not quick enough they will be pushed into a defense.

Working as a Psychiatrist for past 17 years I have seen many faces, thousands of stories. Every story is different from the other only to be similar at a higher level. Only defenseless people are the one who’s minds are struck with true medical illnesses, and those are few and far in between. They don’t make much eye contact, or say much, as if they are ashamed of their problems. It is not clear if they have any understanding of their problems or what they are feeling.

It is easy to find defenseless people in a psychiatry clinic setting. But in life when we meet hundreds of people every day, at home, at work, in the coffee shop in passing through traffic, some of them we talk to, some of them we only see eye to eye and some of them remain in the background, in our peripheral vision. What about these people? They all have stories like ginger roots; they have stories that come out of other stories and the roots that are inter-mingled in these stories.

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