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Small Things Set Me Off, and My Family Pays for It
I load and unload cargo at the port in Chittagong, and I have done this work for twenty years. This past year something in me has changed. A dropped tool, a meal served late, a child asking twice for the same thing, and my voice rises before I even know it. I shout at my wife and my children over things that are not worth a raised word.
Afterwards the shame sits on me for hours. I go quiet at the table and cannot look at them properly. At the dock I am short with the younger men too, and twice my foreman has pulled me aside. My sleep is broken as well. I lie there replaying the day, angry at myself more than at anyone else.
It was my wife who finally said it plainly. She asked me to see a psychiatrist before this temper of mine does real damage at home. I agreed because she was right. That night I opened the DoctorBD24 list of doctors in Chattogram on my phone and looked for a doctor of the mind.
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Dr. Arafat Azim
Small Things Set Me Off, and My Family Pays for It
He wanted the minutes before the shouting
The psychiatrist did not ask me whether I was an angry man. He asked me to walk him through the last time I shouted, minute by minute. Where in my body I felt it rise.
From there he moved through my days. How I sleep, and whether I wake still tired. He asked about my health too, and my blood pressure checks at the clinic near the dock.
What he proposed for the weeks ahead
He said we would meet for regular talking sittings. I would learn to catch the rise earlier, before it reaches my voice. He made no promise that the temper would vanish. Change is slow and uneven, he said. Medicine might join later, only if he judges I need it.
My wife joins only as I allow
He asked whether my wife might sit with us one day. She sees this side of me most closely. I said I was not ready. He nodded and said that door stays open, and nothing will be reported to her without my agreement.
His word on medicine stands until he changes it
No medicine has been written for me yet. But he explained the rule in advance. Anything he prescribes, I take exactly as written, for as long as he says. Feeling calmer for a week is not a reason to drop it suddenly on my own. If it does not suit me, I bring that to him. He adjusts it or stops it himself.
Finding the right list took one evening
My son helped me search that first night, since I am not much for the internet. DoctorBD24 arranges its doctors by specialty. Beside the mind doctors we saw the general surgeons listed for Chittagong, a different list for different troubles.
Is a bad temper really a matter for a doctor?
I asked him this myself. He said a temper hurting my family and work deserves a doctor's hearing, like any trouble I cannot hold back alone.
Will he want to meet my wife?
Only when I agree to it. She could help him understand my days, he said, but my sittings are mine. Nothing reaches her unless I say it may.
What if something in my body is driving this?
He has already raised that himself. Poor sleep and some body troubles can shorten a man's patience, he said. If he suspects one, another doctor checks me first.
How many sittings before things feel different?
He refused to count them for me. We would know from my wife's face and my own evenings, he said, not from a number.
Can I do this alongside my dock work?
Yes. My sittings are fixed around my shifts. He asked only that I not skip the busy weeks.
If dark thoughts of harming myself ever come, what then?
That is an emergency of the day itself. Tell my wife or someone close at once, and get to a hospital the same day. The same for nights with no sleep at all, when my mind races and will not settle. Or if fear stops me eating, washing, or facing the day.
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