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Message #83656 from davemarkun at Mar 23, 2002
... the offer still holds. Just say when and how. DSM [end.]
Golly DSM, as i roam the mental health nooks and crannies
of the Boston area its sometimes difficult to walk into a room
of a mental illness patient and a psychiatrist and determine
without looking at name tags which is the sick, the doctor.
We all heard that Catch-22 saying that a crazy person is unaware
of their own crazy and don't understand why other people seem to
act quite strange towards them, as if they are crazy or something.
Yes, but there is another characterization i spoke about above
in that sometimes the person with the mental illness does not
appear to be crazy after their realization that others treat them
different in ways that does not make sense to them, so they
actually appear to be doing the doctor trade onto the real doctor.
This short true story is too good not to share.
This young lady just joined the staff of other psychiatrists,
and on the first day a nurse informed her of a meeting of
the other five doctors at 2 p.m. room #17. She knew that
the doctor in charge of them all was quite a nasty and difficult
and extra blunt etc etc man so she knew that she had to keep
her cool and appear in control. What she did not realize that
this doctor had an off the wall dry type of humor where those
around him did not know to laugh or cry or run away, at times.
So she entered the room and saw a mean looking man at the
head of a long table, and four other people sitting in a rigid
and straight cold manner. She sat down and waited for a signal
to speak and introduce herself. About 3 minutes went by and
no one spoke or moved, then the head man raised his hand
and upon lowering it the other 4 person started singing...
"They're coming to take us away, ha ha, coming to take us away."
over and over and over
until the nurse opened the door and spoke to the new young lady doctor
that the meeting has been changed to room #21 and the other
doctors were waiting for her.
The nurse left and before she could stand up to leave the head man
told her that it was just a joke and we are the doctors just getting
you to loosen up a little. Or not, or yes, or how to tell she wondered.
The "head man a.k.a. in charge" told her to go to room 21 and if
no one is there to return back here rather than track down the nurse.
She left and quickly returned saying the room is empty.
She sat down and for the next 10 minutes she spoke to all
the persons in the room using only general everyday converstaion
and she was not able to tell if they were patients or them doctors
for real.
The four started singing again "They're coming to take us away,
ha ha, coming to take us away." over and over and over until
she stood up and left the room and cried her eyes out.
Tough business that mental health profession, and for those
who wish to venture there be warned that unless you deal with
cheese & whining mainstream Americans, that once you get
into close mental contact with the real deal, then who is who
sometimes causes even them doctors to wonder, even about
themselves if they can not travel and return into from chaos.
So Dave,
Message #83656 from davemarkun at Mar 23, 2002
... the offer still holds. Just say when and how. DSM [end.]
The person you suggest help for, might he be your doctor :o)
d:oug |
