A Case of Anti National Activity

A CASE OF ANTI NATIONAL ACTIVITY

His Psycho-emotional situation was drastically disturbed. He was trying to mull upon some issue but was unable to concentrate. He tried to remain his cordial environ cool and breezy but when he gazed to his nerves he saw the blood is boiling due to the hypertension due to which his thoracic cage was burning. He could feel the heart inside the cage was paining and his brain was on boil. His nose was bleeding and vividly his flaxen face was turned into blood-spattered mask.

On Monday he decided to visit a nearby Psychiatric Hospital, where a Psychiatrist could become a source of satisfaction. A beautiful and modern female wearing jean’s pent and a long coat was sitting on the Doctor’s chair. A lady psychiatric patient was waiting in the room and no other person was there. He decided to talk to the Lady Doctor. He got the sitting place and started chanting to the Doctor.

Whenever He listens to the mobile ringtones, a noise of piling cars or busses outside his home during the night, whenever anyone of his family members knocks the door of his room when he is sleeping or whenever his ear sounds the word “Laptop”, and his heart starts pulping, his forehead sweats and his legs start trembling… Mouth becomes dry and a frequent urination starts, He trembles and cannot see properly. He loses his control and co-ordination.

A grim-creator usually comes in his night mares. With a laptop in his hands and followed by some gunmen uniformed in “Khaki” start showering bullets over him without saying anything. The “Laptop Man” points his finger towards him and the guns start sounding the song of death, he falls on ground and blood starts melting from his body. On the ground he can see the blood spread over the stones, the sand and the soil, he starts shouting and crying and he gets up from his sleep. He trembles… weeps… and then fell asleep.

His name is Fahad, lives in the heart of the city. In Psychiatric Hospital when he was expressing his happenings and frustrations to the lady Doctor on her inquiry, His friend Haashim was amazingly gazing to his face. In the mid of the conversation the Dr. asked Fahad to stop and go out of the room for a while. Then she asked some questions to Haashim about his friend.

On returning to the OPD room Fahad was asked to sit and the Dr. started writing some notes on the prescription. She was somehow confused…her facial expressions seemed so. During examining the case of Fahad, perhaps Dr. was unable to come to a conclusion or with a medical diagnosis. She called another colleague to discuss the case. “He is a case of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorders) and the patient wants Psychiatric counseling rather medication” told Lady Dr. to her Colleague.

“What is the case history?” asked the colleague Doctor. “A case of anti National activity”… replied Lady Doctor. Fahad, who had come for the treatment was drastically disappointed. “A case of Anti National Activity”… the words of the sentence were bombarding mind. The place where he had come for the solace, he was gifted the grief. He wished that the Doctors will counsel him how to tackle the grim of Mobile ringtones, Noise of cars, Knock of the Door and the word “Laptop”. Fahad got the Prescription ticket in his hands, gazed the green colored ticket for a while, read his name over it, notes of the Doctor and their diagnosis, started trembling again and left the premises.

Aarif Shafi Khanyari

03/11/2014