POETRY | MENTAL HEALTH | MEMORIES
Questions From Others About My Mother’s Anxiety
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Why this sudden change in her demeanor? Wasn’t she fine a day back?
Why do you always trust her when she is in unease?
We think: Don’t you think she pretends?
Do you help her take her medicines on time?
Why don’t you visit her psychiatrist again?
Why the sleeplessness? Conflicts in family? What troubles her?
You are all grownups now: Can she try not to worry about you?
Do you find time to talk to her? Why are you so busy?
Why do you work so hard? What will you do with so much money?
Why is she always fatigued? Why constant complaints of muscle cramps?
Something must’ve happened at home: Did that something happen?
Homeopathy, fresh flowers, vitamins, small quacks/qualified quacks,
conjurers, meditations: Shall we help if you can’t?
Why are you scared when she goes out to meet people?
Why are you protective of her? Are her falls so dangerous?
