Eri Wilde's Japonaiserie

One Saturday, I took my sons to the park where foreigners were holding a meetup. I was invited there by an Irish friend of mine. My husband was working on that day and I had to take care of my sons alone. I somehow persuaded my crabby eldest son to follow me there. He accepted the plan under the condition that we were going to play soccer in the park. I also brought my ukulele and sheet music there. When I was driving and arrived at a temple near the park, I saw some foreign guys standing and checking smart phones, and I thought they might have got lost, but I should find where others were at first. So I continued driving to the parking area near the park. I found the group of people relaxing on leisure sheets at the opposite side of the park. While my sons were still sleeping, I got off my car and walked to them to let them know some guys seemed to have been losing their way. My Irish friend went walking to find them after thanking me. I went back to my car to find my sons had jus...

I started consulting a psychiatrist last October. I had been suffering from psychosomatic disorders such as buzzing in the ear, lack of concentration, sleeping problems, memory disturbance, feeling of worthlessness, obsessional ideas, sense of anxiety, hypobulia, and inability to observe  the order of precedence. The symptoms hadn't started recently. I had been annoyed with lots of the above for a long time, but I had never dared to consult a doctor. It required a lot of courage to make an appointment with a psychiatrist for the first time. My doctor sounded impressed with my grit. My younger brother has been seeing a psychiatrist for more than 20 years. He has schizophrenia. He was diagnosed as a schizophrenic when he was a university student. There are some people who are seeing psychiatrists in my husband's family and relatives, too. Some of us share the same doctor. So the mental disorders are very common problems for my family at leas...