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Since the Storm at Sea, I Startle at Every Small Sound
I am thirty-eight, and I work on a tourist boat out of Cox's Bazar. Last monsoon, coming back with a boatload of visitors, we were caught by sudden rough weather off the coast. The boat rolled hard, water came over the side, and for a while I thought we would not reach the shore. We did. Nobody was badly hurt. But something in me has not settled since that day.
A small sound is enough now. A plate drops in the kitchen, and my shoulders jump before I know why. A horn on the road, a rope slapping the mast. Even a child shouting can set my heart hammering. Worse is the dread of the boat itself. The night before a trip I sleep in broken pieces, listening to the wind and picturing the waves. On board I keep checking the sky, and the passengers can see my hands shaking.
My elder brother sat me down last month and said this had gone on long enough. The doctor at our local clinic said the same. He told me a psychiatrist is a doctor who deals with troubles of the mind. I should talk to one about the fear and the broken sleep, he said. Finding this kind of doctor was new to me. One evening I opened the Cox's Bazar doctor listings on DoctorBD24 on my phone and started looking from there.
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Since the Storm at Sea, I Startle at Every Small Sound
He began with the storm
The psychiatrist did not rush me. He asked me to tell that day's story on the water. Only then did he move to the present. How do I sleep now? What does a day on the boat look like? He listened more than he spoke.
The sea stays in the mind
He explained it in plain words. The mind can stay on guard long after the danger has passed, he said. It keeps watching for the next wave even on dry land. Hearing that helped me.
No quick end
He was straight with me about time. A fear grown over months does not leave in a week, he said. We would meet at regular gaps, talk in sittings, and watch how the nights changed.
Talking, and a medicine
He suggested sittings where we talk, and he wrote a medicine for me. He explained what it was for and what changes I should report early. My wife could sit in one day, if I wanted her there.
His word on the medicine
I take it exactly as he wrote it, every day. A good week is not a reason to leave it off. Stopping suddenly can leave me worse than before. If it troubles me, I tell him. Any change comes from him.
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Why did he want the whole story of that day?
He said the trouble started there, so he needed to hear it properly first. What I felt on the boat and what I feel now are one story for him.
Will I have to give up the boat?
No, and he did not suggest it. He asked me to keep working and keep my routine steady. The boat is my living, and the work itself is not the problem.
How soon should the night-before dread ease?
He would not give me a date. Sleep before trips may settle in small steps. We judge it sitting by sitting, not by any promise.
Can my wife join a sitting?
Yes, when I agree to it. Family joins only the way the patient allows, he said. Nothing I say alone in that room is passed on without my word.
What if something in my body is part of this?
Then he says so plainly and points me to the doctor whose work that is. A pounding heart is not always the mind's doing, he told me. He would rather check than guess.
What if one night I feel I might harm myself?
That is not a thing to sit alone with, he told me. Tell someone near you at once and go to a hospital the same day. The same goes for nights with no sleep at all while your thoughts keep racing. It also holds if washing and eating become more than you can manage. Or if fear takes hold so hard that you cannot steady yourself. That day, not the next sitting.
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