Skolopad had revealed\u00a0\u00a0is seeking professional help after taking a handful of pills in attempt to “rest and sleep” on Monday.<\/p>\n
In an interview with TshisaLIVE<\/strong> Skolopad said she was receiving counselling and insisted that the incident was not a suicide attempt. She said she took the pills because she wanted to “rest for a long time”<\/p>\n She said that after the argument with her colleague\u201a her mind went into overdrive and she decided to take “a couple of pills” so she could just sleep.<\/p>\n “When I got home\u201a I took some pills. Mostly anti-anxiety pills but pills that I had. It’s pills I usually take when I am angry and need to calm down\u201a so I took a couple of them.”<\/p>\n I feel like I need to rest for a long time… even if it’s forever. Yes. I have wanted to die many times before. I have attempted to jump off the hospital roof top. I just didn’t make it. This time I just wanted to rest.”<\/p>\n Skolopad explained that she was trying to move up the ranks in her nursing career but no doors were opening.<\/p>\n She said the disagreement with a fellow matron was the last straw for her.<\/p>\n “I was really\u201a really hurt. I cried a lot in their presence but they told me to rather go back to the ward and work or go home so I could calm down. I asked them to resign because I feel like nothing I ever ask for at work is ever approved. I have asked for so many things\u201a things that really matter and have merit where my job is concerned but I am constantly shot down or made empty promises. What have I done wrong as a nurse? Nothing.”<\/p>\n Skolopad said she was seeking professional help for her mental health and constant feelings of hopelessness by talking to a therapist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Skolopad had revealed\u00a0\u00a0is seeking professional help after taking a handful of pills in attempt to “rest and sleep” on Monday. In an interview with TshisaLIVE Skolopad said she was receiving counselling and insisted that the incident was not a suicide attempt. She said she took the pills because she wanted to “rest for a long […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6031,"featured_media":9800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2704],"class_list":["post-22369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-skolopad-news"],"yoast_head":"\n