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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That’s nothing. Richard Levine thinks he’s a woman.
Femi needs Jesus!
And Rachel Dolezel thinks she’s black.
And Joe Biden thinks he’s the legitimate President. Shows how rampant mental illness is.
“Femi” doesn’t sound like a very British name to me.
And it isn’t. Web search says it’s a “gender-neutral name of Nigerian-Yoruba origin meaning ‘love me’” . . . ugh.
But apart from that it’s not a bad job. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Has the patient put in for species confirmation surgery? The hair and tooth implants are well within reach for modern technology, and bath salts would probably handle the psychological issues. I’m sure health insurance is mandated to cover this sort of thing.
Is his name Larry Talbot? I’d pay attention...
In the 1970’s when I was a kid we had a guy in our neighborhood that claimed he was a werewolf. Us kids would run into our houses when he walked down the street to get away from the creep.
He would actually howl at the moon when it was full at night.
:-)
Better a loon than a troon.
His hair was perfect.
Maybe he’s mistaken and really a dogman!
It was caught on a security camera.
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/texas-city-seeks-help-in-identifying-mysterious-dog-man-seen-in-viral-photo/
but did you actually MEET his tailor?
Did you meet him at Trader Vics? Was he drinking a pina colada?
he’s Trans werewolf. leave him alone you transphobics.
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