This ad hoc post was made to provide a story about the historical events leading to my previous possibility that I may die soon. My life has now been prolonged after a stay in IMH (Institute of Mental Health) from 10 to 20 Jan 2020. My life is prolonged not because I've had a mental illness and it was treated at IMH, but because in IMH, I was also treated with combinations of osmotic and stimulant laxatives to force movement of my bowels. It was really a case of if one laxative does not work by itself, try everything together. Eventually, I'm still alive because their ad hoc treatment for my neurogenic bowels condition (chronic idiopathic constipation) worked. The story below was cut and pasted from my comments on CNA's Facebook article and I have amended the links so that they work properly. I have also included some extra information.
For the more recent news about my medical conditions, read:
http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2020/01/spinal-cord-injury-neurogenic-bowels.html
I'm a victim of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and OCD(and skin picking anxiety http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/skin-picking-disorder-sacral-ulcer.html). Going through Dunman High School from 1989-1992 rattled my nerves because I do not like to memorise my studies, I prefer to enjoy them. Failing to find that enjoyment after being put through weekly tests, I ended spending time on table tennis, basketball, soccer and worse, computer games. My anxiety got worse until my O levels, where I did not do well enough to go to TJC, so I ended up at TPJC. Life was uneventful there, but I was considered to be a good student there and I got into NTU. NTU was eventful due to my mistaken understanding that joining more activities to score points to live in a hostel is more important than doing well in my studies. Obviously, time is short and I only got a second class lower honours in EEE. Having relied on my anxiety to pass my exams, life took an unexpected turn for the worse after I graduated. It was the dot com bust, and I took 3 months to get a job, courtesy of my lousy appreciation of my degree and the jobs available. Worse, I got a sales engineer job. Profiting pressures took centre stage and I was persuaded to take an MBA after I did a wrong post graduate diploma in marketing communications with MIS, IAS, IPRS in 2003. From 2003-2005, my online MBA with Universitas 21 Global went fine and I left my company in 2004 to devote more time on it, but things got worse in 2006 when I tried get another job because I was running out of savings. I couldn't conceive of what jobs are there for a person with an MBA to take! Illusions started to form in my mind and I started wandering vaguely from place to place in Singapore following instructions from sounds heard from the environment. That's schizophrenia: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-eternal-mystery-my-onset-of.html
Between 2006 and 2011, I went through many jobs, but only 2 appeared in my resume: https://maxlooresume.wordpress.com/. I had no career at all. An important reason for that was that although I had taken antipsychotic drugs to recover in 2007 after my onset of schizophrenia, somehow, my psychiatrist unwisely took me off medication even though there's a high chance of a relapse and suicide attempts. In 2011, I attempted suicide: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/princess-mononokes-reminder-of-day-of.html. That was the turning point in my life: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/neurogenic-bowels-and-bladder-and.html. I was nearly paralysed but recovered carrying problems that deteriorated until today. Now, my neurogenic bowels have caused me to have chronic idiopathic constipation, meaning I cannot pass motion. This means I cannot eat. Very soon in the future, I'll likely have to fast, and eventually I will die. All this is happening because my psychiatrist had taken me off medication in 2007.
Hence, I would like to leave this world well, with euthanasia if possible, if not fasting will do. Fasting or starvation is definitely better than suffering from intestinal or colon toxicity if I continue to eat a little, or from intestinal or colon perforation if I eat too much. I would also like to advice ALL people with mental illnesses to continue taking your antipsychotics or antidepressants. These medications may save your life one day. If you manage to live long enough, you may see the dawn of longevity medications, with which you can live to ages of 120-140 years. You will be able to contribute much more to humanity in those extra years of life.
I'm a victim of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and OCD(and skin picking anxiety http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/skin-picking-disorder-sacral-ulcer.html). Going through Dunman High School from 1989-1992 rattled my nerves because I do not like to memorise my studies, I prefer to enjoy them. Failing to find that enjoyment after being put through weekly tests, I ended spending time on table tennis, basketball, soccer and worse, computer games. My anxiety got worse until my O levels, where I did not do well enough to go to TJC, so I ended up at TPJC. Life was uneventful there, but I was considered to be a good student there and I got into NTU. NTU was eventful due to my mistaken understanding that joining more activities to score points to live in a hostel is more important than doing well in my studies. Obviously, time is short and I only got a second class lower honours in EEE. Having relied on my anxiety to pass my exams, life took an unexpected turn for the worse after I graduated. It was the dot com bust, and I took 3 months to get a job, courtesy of my lousy appreciation of my degree and the jobs available. Worse, I got a sales engineer job. Profiting pressures took centre stage and I was persuaded to take an MBA after I did a wrong post graduate diploma in marketing communications with MIS, IAS, IPRS in 2003. From 2003-2005, my online MBA with Universitas 21 Global went fine and I left my company in 2004 to devote more time on it, but things got worse in 2006 when I tried get another job because I was running out of savings. I couldn't conceive of what jobs are there for a person with an MBA to take! Illusions started to form in my mind and I started wandering vaguely from place to place in Singapore following instructions from sounds heard from the environment. That's schizophrenia: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-eternal-mystery-my-onset-of.html
Between 2006 and 2011, I went through many jobs, but only 2 appeared in my resume: https://maxlooresume.wordpress.com/. I had no career at all. An important reason for that was that although I had taken antipsychotic drugs to recover in 2007 after my onset of schizophrenia, somehow, my psychiatrist unwisely took me off medication even though there's a high chance of a relapse and suicide attempts. In 2011, I attempted suicide: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/princess-mononokes-reminder-of-day-of.html. That was the turning point in my life: http://maxloomedical.blogspot.com/2018/12/neurogenic-bowels-and-bladder-and.html. I was nearly paralysed but recovered carrying problems that deteriorated until today. Now, my neurogenic bowels have caused me to have chronic idiopathic constipation, meaning I cannot pass motion. This means I cannot eat. Very soon in the future, I'll likely have to fast, and eventually I will die. All this is happening because my psychiatrist had taken me off medication in 2007.
Hence, I would like to leave this world well, with euthanasia if possible, if not fasting will do. Fasting or starvation is definitely better than suffering from intestinal or colon toxicity if I continue to eat a little, or from intestinal or colon perforation if I eat too much. I would also like to advice ALL people with mental illnesses to continue taking your antipsychotics or antidepressants. These medications may save your life one day. If you manage to live long enough, you may see the dawn of longevity medications, with which you can live to ages of 120-140 years. You will be able to contribute much more to humanity in those extra years of life.