This past morning I was helping out on the Adult Unit, where I rarely work nowadays, when an Interesting Situation occurred: I asked a Patient their name and introduced myself. The Patient said something like, "You look like a Cartoon Character. I can't think of which one". I told the Patient that that was a very interesting observation to make, since, years ago, I did some work as a Street Cartoonist and, at that time, also had some of my Cartoons published.
This situation set me to thinking. I have experienced SEVERAL situations in which Mentally Ill, and sometimes Psychotic, Patients and Clients have made astute and sometimes clairvoyant statements and observations having to do with me.
Have any of you who work with the Mentally Ill ever experienced any similar phenomena?
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"I even wonder sometimes, Whispera, if the Psychosis is the Reason For or is a Caustive Factor Of the Psychic State?" Davey Do
Actually ,I think it goes the other way, at least sometimes. A person is unable to cope with their gift, or can't believe....therefore thinks themselves "crazy".
I think, too, that sometimes we mere "normals" think someone is psychotic when maybe he is psychic and beyond our understanding, so we attach a negative label to him...
Whispera, MSN, RN
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I think, too, that sometimes we mere "normals" think someone is psychotic when maybe he is psychic and beyond our understanding, so we attach a negative label to him...