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In reply to the discussion: Sam Nunberg goes dark on Tuesday after his spectacular media meltdown [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)of problems was a fellow employee in a training program. She seemed fine at the beginning, a sweet, pleasant woman with a good attitude, but over a few weeks, with the stress of keeping up, she became worse and worse with experience, unable to perform to previous levels. We all tried to help and encourage her, and she wanted to continue even though she'd become quiet and lost her smile.
But in the last week her problem accelerated and took a strange turn as she first withdrew and then appeared increasingly hostile and paranoid over about 3 days, which she never was before, first toward the managers and the last day glaring at fellow trainees as if she'd figured out that we were sabotaging her. I spoke with her mom on the phone, explaining what we saw, and she didn't say it'd happened before, but it was obvious that there was some kind of emotional vulnerability and we didn't know enough to pick up signs that she could be headed for serious mental problems. I regret what she went through.