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Q: Do you know personally a foreigner who suffered a complete nervous breakdown in China?
I knew an Australian in Harbin who stark raving mad. He was a heavy drinker with bipolar problems. He totally came apart one eveninig in Harbin, destroyed part of his school, then went home and damaged the building where lived, punched a few locals on the way home. He was caught and deported in two days. Have you seen a foreigner have complete psychotic meltdown here?
12 years 12 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I know this guy but not personally:
DAVID WILLS is the managing editor of Beatdom Magazine, a literary journal inspired by the Beat Generation.
He has spent the past three years living in Asia, where he has worked as a travel writer, teacher and textbook editor. He lives with his girlfriend wife and rescues badly behaved cats. He is currently working on the proud author of a novel about ESL teachers in South Korea, called The Dog Farm.
You can learn more about him here.
http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/dswills/2011/01/how-to-die-in-china/
This is a crazy, really a crazy. Thanks Mattaya. I read his article. Whacko.
crimochina:
if you are using crazy as a noun you ... sorry i have a life
Are you having one 981? Some of the posters seem to be getting to you. It happens... but after we do a blow up... we get back to normal. No love lost.
981, I have to ask you a question, and this seems to be as appropriate a place as any.
You seem to take pleasure in correcting spelling errors of other posters on this site, and yet we all have overlooked/forgiven your many errors in your posts. I'm just wondering what exactly qualifies you to be the spelling nazi when, in your own posts, you leave letters off of many of your words and leave out entire words needed to make your thought complete for your reader?
I suggest you allow some of the posters to get under your skin and your missing-words issue tends to become more pronounced. I would also like to point out that some of the words you seem to omit, tend to be words that wouldn't really have an equivalent in Mandarin.
Well, I know this one guy who went to a fun, funny website, and made 522 humourless, mostly useless, mostly bragging posts in 23 days, insisted that the site was his own personal shrine, and viciously attacked anyone who refused to praise him. Then wrote lengthy essay after lengthy essay, full of biggoted racist, sexist, classist language about how 80% of the regular posters were destroying his grand, wonderful vision for this site. This site he'd only started posting on 23 days prior.
And, judging from the post times, he's sacrified work, family, friends, eating and going to the bathroom in order to be logged onto this site - which he's been on for 23 days - a solid 16 hours a day.
During these 16 solid hours a day, for 23 days, he has composed an enemy list longer than Nixon could make in five years. He has accused his enemies of all being the same person, and has threatened them with - among other things - reprisal from the corporate sponsors of the site, calling the police, and "permanent deportation". On a website meant for a bit of fun.
That's probably the most clear-cut nervous breakdown I've ever seen.
Mr_spoon:
This is what would have happened if Hitler had the internet.
chinese never have nervous breakdowns. they commit suicide at such a high rate becoz they did not have a nervus brekdown.
(left some words misspelled to help you get yourself off)
i propose we all chip in to get 981.. a "1" for her/his "tilted 90 degrees 3" that way he/she can have a more fullfilling hobby.
981977405:
No problem and thanks. I will pay for your stay in the Betty Ford Clinic but that would probably require an excessively long detox period.
crimochina:
please make it the detox clinic in jamaica. best way to beat a habit is to replace with another one. jamaican women love american men
Older Australian guy had been looking for an apartment for 5 months and was really stressed out. Then on the same day his wallet is stolen, he finds out his girlfriend was just trying to get money from him and the straw that broke the camel's back was when the boss asked to borrow his pen. He flipped out, broke an office chair and stormed out. Didn't see him for a week after that.
Mr_spoon:
Bahahahahaha! The end was hilarious, but sad at the same time :|
crimochina:
hehehe i'm not laughing seriously i feel sorry for the dude. becoz i swear if it wasnt for this site and women and beer that could be me.
I once worked a bording school that hired about twenty foreigners. They were all quite social with each other and got along spendedly.
There was this one woman, a very kind, gentle woman who had lived in China for years and spoke Chinese very well. One day, she stopped socializing with all the foreigners. She was still friendly and all, but she always insisted she was too tired for card games, dinners, etc. After about a month of rarely seeing this woman who was once very active in our social lives, she announced she was going back home, and made some vague comments about how it was difficult to constantly try to deal with a different culture (funny thing is, she seemed to deal with it better than the rest of us, on account of her Chinese skills).
It was really sad. I wish we could have done something, but she really just closed herself off.
