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...
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‘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.’
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
What about the patient who got sharp pains in his neck and dreamed about werewolves?
Myself and members of the emergency response team are huddled inside the staff office.
Biden thinks he’s a truck driver..........................
I remember that! From the Beatles on it would rot your brain! I never listened to Rock and roll or trashy music. I am still stuck in the days of Bob Wills and Benny Goodman.
Probably just a furry...
His hair was perfect!
He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fooks.
I identify as a multi-millionaire, but my bank always laughs at me.
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