In yesterday’s episode of ABC’s show, “Lost“, we were taken back to Hurley’s history in a mental institution. I knew that Dave was a fixture of Hurley’s imagination as the doctor whipped out his polaroid to take a picture of Hurley and Dave in the game room.
I’ve been thinking about something else, though. When Sawyer offhandedly called Hurley “crazy” and Hurley attacked Sawyer in a fit of anger. Wouldn’t that confirm what Sawyer was saying? Yet I understood why Hurley did it. When I’ve been called “crazy” in the past, I felt angry and defensive. Defensive because I knew I wasn’t crazy. Angry because I was scared the person who made the remark may actually be right.
I felt confused, when I was suffering from depression, and hearing the word crazy, sometimes directed at me.
