Abandoned

We drove 40 minutes yesterday and visited Nico in his isolated house in the country side. To our pleasant surprise, he prepared us a nice meal and he actually cleaned his house before we arrived. We had a great time at table. After the meal, we went on a walk, and we went to the nearest town which is one mile away from Nico's house.

Despite of the great time we had chatting and making jokes, I'm getting more and more worried about Nico's health. If he only looked tired the last time we saw him, this time he looks... sick. He told me he didn't sleep well and he was very worried about the court process. Because of the stress, he doubled his medecine dose.

Nico is kind of a doctor himself, so I can't give my two cents on how he should treat himself medically. All I saw is that he is not doing well, aside from being very sensitive to the noises, he got emotional very quickly.

I actually took the advice from the comments and treated him like a nomal person, which means I did't talk about his depression and insisted on the fact that it's normal to be depressed. But the conversion didn't go the positive direction I wanted it to go. At a certain point, he told me that he was thinking about suicide every day and he would've probably done it if it wasn't for his mother.

We left Nico's place with a heavy heart.

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