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This Happened to Me!

posted 17 years ago by Bklyn4ever
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It was not in a mental hospital but on a college campus (pretty close).

I began dating a professor who was brilliant, charming, and quirky.

He became progressively more quirky, assuming that we would get married and start having children right away, giving me a washing machine as a gift for no reason, and distributing memos about how wonderful I was to everyone he knew. I asked him what was going on, and he said he had stopped taking his "medication" because it turned him into a robot and he wanted to live for once.

While I tried to figure out what to do, the course of events made the decision for me: he no longer recognized me, he threatened his students with an antique dagger, he began to dress as a medieval rabbi, he was relieved of his duties and his mother came to collect him. I never saw him again, and never got to answer his proposal of marriage. The year was 1989.

"Have I sent you my protocol sheet?"

[–] i-heart-napoleon 16 years ago

lol, um is any of that true??

There must be steroids in macaroni!!

[–] Bklyn4ever 16 years ago

Unfortunately, all of it is true. Just thought I would share.
EDIT: Recently I found out he recovered (though I don't think schizophrenia can ever be cured) and is working as a professor again. Uh-oh.

[–] NZLady 14 years ago

That's so tragic. Would you ever see him again? Hmm.. maybe I'm posting a question on this thread a LITTLE too late.

[–] Bklyn4ever 14 years ago

Oh no, I would not get involved with this guy again, even though he seems to be doing better now. He may not remember me anyway. And I'm getting married soon to my true love.