Posted on 05/05/2024 11:48:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I spent a decade helping people with disorders considered messy, ugly or outright feared – but one patient was particularly memorable...
SNIP
‘For those who don’t know, Femi is a 45-year-old man with psychosis who believes he’s a werewolf,’ Reggie, the nurse in charge, tells us.
We’re on the hospital’s male psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU); because some minds need thorough care too. Hidden away in the bowels of the psychiatric hospital, it’s where florid mental illness at its most disturbed and dangerous is housed.
Myself and members of the emergency response team are huddled inside the staff office, which is like the viewing platform in an aquarium, from which to observe tropical fish on the other side. There’s the usual din of a psych ward: occasional shouting and screaming, piercing alarms, the relentless banging and clanging of magnetic doors. And here the previous trainee told me that these patients hit the glass harder, or fly-kick the door to get your attention.
Last night he gave me a frank handover on the phone: ‘You think you’ve seen madness, and then you work on a PICU,’ he said. ‘The patients there are so unwell they generally have zero insight about their illnesses. So they’re all on sections, and because you often have to get medication into them through force, they hate you. But apart from that it’s not a bad job.’
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Poorly argued article. I would have also trusted the emergency technician over the psychiatrist in such an emergency. Sorry.
Did he run amok in Kent?
that’s nothing
B thinks he’s a president
The fairly common Arab (Christian as well as Muslim) family name Habib means “beloved”. Maybe a similar idea. Lots of European names relate to ancestors’ professions. Now, former Cherokee Tribal Chief Wilma Mankiller had a really evocative name.
Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,’’
and the Autumn moon is bright.
Ah-ooow-oooow-ooooh!
Even a man who is pure of heart
And says his prayers by night,
May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms,’’
and the Autumn moon is bright.
Ah-ooow-oooow-ooooh!
Insanity is now the norm. Whey not self identify as a wereworf?
Awooo-oooo-oooops!
Woman: “My husband thinks he’s a chicken.”
Doctor: “Have you talked to a psychiatrist?”
Woman: “No.”
Doctor: “Shall I refer you to one?”
Woman: “Not yet... money’s tight right now & we sure can use those eggs!”
>> Awooo-oooo-oooops!
🤣
I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that you take a guy who thinks he’s a werewolf far more seriously than a guy in drag who thinks he’s a woman.
“Roll, roll, roll in the hay!!!”
‘For those who don’t know, Femi is a 45-year-old man with psychosis who believes he’s a werewolf,’ Reggie, the nurse in charge, tells us.
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what gender of a wolf did Femi identify with?
is his hair perfect???
Picus are very quiet because people can be heavily medicated against their will.
He’ll rip your lungs out, Jim.
Does he like Chinese food?
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