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Saturday, June 14, 2014

In the last message, Thursday, June 12; I wrote about the psychiatric polyclinic I went to in 1978. Regarding that; it also is of importance, that it was a social worker I had contact with there, not a doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, or something similar. This social worker; usually worked at a social welfare office, and had a kind of link course; still an employee at this social welfare office, who was at this psychiatric polyclinic to learn from it. When this person talked to me; there was a psychologist who gave education and followed up this person regarding talking with me. At this place, this social worker worked in a team with different occupational groups, doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and maybe other tings too.

My problem was that I could not sleep. And when I worked as an electrician, at a construction site at that time; I become more and more worn‐out. The first time I went to the doctor, this had become worse and worse for many months. For months I had slept around one hour each day, and in the end I was too much exhausted. Every time I started to work again, this started to be like this again.

When I was reported sick, it become better, because I typically started to sleep in the morning, after lying in the bed the whole night. Before I fell asleep I had been uncomfortable and turned around and around without lying still. This was at that time something I did not understand what could bee. First I went to the doctor to get sleeping pills, but the doctor tried to find another solution to the problem. When I later now and then got sleeping pills, they did not work, it could even be much worse. So this had become difficult for me.

When I started to work as a newspaper deliverer, September 28, 1978; this problem become terrible. But because that working time only was short, about three hours, I was able to manage it. A short time after this, we got separated and divorced. I had temporary positions as school janitor where I had many different things to do; looking after the building and teaching material, the more I wanted to do, the more I had to do; and I slowly become better again. But at that time; I was lonely and filled with strong mental pain because we had been divorced.

David H. Hegg