It's been two years but I still cringe when I think about it. Two years since I had a manic/psychotic episode where I was convinced one of my very well-known professors at X prestigious university was making advances towards me. I told many people, students, other faculty that he was being inappropriate towards me... and some of them believed me. The worst thing was, I told him as well, which really caused him a lot of stress and the whole time he was trying to help me (a kind soul) because he knew I was in some kind of psychological distress.
That was when I was first diagnosed. Even though I am pretty much symptom free on medication, I keep thinking about to that episode, how embarrassed and guilty I feel about the whole situation. It's caused me so much unhappiness in the past two years. I should have apologized to him back then, but then I was hospitalized, everything spiraled out of control and I never got around to it. I just want to get over it. What can I do? Is it only time that will heal?
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