God Has A Way Of Stirring The Nest
God allowed Joseph’s brothers to be wicked to him. Their actions pushed him further towards his destiny. When people are wicked towards you do not despair. Nothing happens without God knowing and the wickedness could be pushing you to your destiny.
Difficulties with the workplace propelled me towards my final recovery from the schizophrenia diagnosis on my medical record with a clean bill of health and full justification for my weaning myself off anti-psychotic medication.
Requests were being made on me by my Manager as a result of pressures on him from new Managers. I had always been supportive of my Line Manager and did my best to perform in the condition of health I was in.
Unfortunately, the work environment had changed. A reorganisation brought in a new Head of Department who was more hardline. The stresses on me led to my making disturbingly loud sounds in the work place. I was sent to Occupational Health. It was observed that I had not been taking the prescribed medication regularly.
I received a conduct warning with allegations of insubordination. The warning disciplinary was dropped but I experienced a number of occasions I mistook the actions to be taken on a number of projects I was involved in. This resulted three months later in my facing another disciplinary.
I approached the leader of our men’s fellowship who happened to be a mental health nurse. He advised me to request a psychiatrist assessment from my doctor. Having known me for quite a while (we met at least three times a week) he was of the opinion there was nothing wrong with me.
It took three months for the scheduled appointment to come through. After initially interviewed by the Consultant Psychiatrist, my wife followed me for the second interview at his request. I was given a clean bill of health. It was only at this point that we got to know that my diagnosis was schizophrenia. I officially was no longer on medication.
A couple of months later, I found myself on the redeployment pool. God had stirred my nest. I was moved from my comfort zone into my everlasting testimony. Schizophrenia is a condition that is extremely rare to recover from permanently.
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