Okupado

On 2019, a young man decided he should have himself checked for any mental health issues before embarking on a journey which will last for a good five years...and the rest of his life. He was preliminarily diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, for which he was given benadryl . Then the pandemic happened. He did not drown himself in medicine because it made him sleepy (doc said it would do for the time being before they see him again, that he needed it to help him sleep). Life continued, and so did he. Come 2024, a good five years after, he decided to have himself checked again and, with an actual finding and an actual prescription, he proceeded to be under the spell of anti-depressants, this alongside a series of readings re. its actual effects, side effects, how it operates, and what he should look out for - all for the purpose of tempering his expectations. Obviously that young man is me. And as it is not a magic pill that eases all worries in just one take, it took quite a wh

 Write about a life-changing decision you or someone you know had to make. Focus on the emotional journey leading to that decision. At that point it was no longer a question of whether I'd enter law school, it's simply a decision; and though conditioned on me passing the famed UP Law Aptitude Exam (UP LAE), I was pretty sure I'd enter law school in one way or another, in UP or not, but hopefully in UP of course. The decision was finally made about six or seven years ago (pre-pandemic as they'd call it). I spoke to my boss about entering law school as I intended to enter as a working student, he was supportive of it which added to my excitement - so things were planned, by things I meant: Taking the Philippine Law School Admission Test (PhilSAT), supposedly a National Level similar to the LSAT in the US. Taking the UP LAE. Inquiring  about law programs from other schools. Those are mostly what I had my mind into for quite a while then, an of course daydreaming about the