"What's your name?"
"Sandra, better known as Janet Jackson"
My "pregnant" patient is long gone but we have a new woman whose delusions are....top notch. She's been in the hospital now for almost 2 weeks, which is only the latest of many many psychiatric hospitalizations. Meeting her you might not suspect anything at first, she's (mostly) friendly, talks a lot and seems fairly happy. It's when you start actually listening to all the BS that she's saying that you realize something's off.
She is, for all intents and purposes, Janet Jackson. She has an album coming out "later in the summer". She's currently dating Tupac himself (for a few days she temporarily thought I had stolen her bf Tupac from her, but seems to have gotten over that). Additionally, she performed with Ludacris in Greensboro, her sister is Vivica A Fox, she met Alicia Keys at Holly Hill Hospital (another psych hospital in Raleigh)...oh yeah, and she also used to be Chilli from TLC, but that was back when she had "golden hair". And to top it all off, she does not sleep - literally only 2-3 hours a night if we're lucky.
And what do we do about it? A whole lot of nothing it seems. Medication medication medication....but that's not going to get rid of these delusions. It just makes her "pleasantly delusional" (my favorite term used to describe some of the patients here) so that she can be discharged. But, like Miss Pregnant-with-Twins, Janet Jackson will return to us. Again and again and again....
Obviously we're not succeeding in "helping" her, are we?
Or maybe we simply...can't.
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1 comments:
oh wow. I don't know whether to laugh or feel real depressed. I love that she thought you had stolen Tupac from her, but it's also horribly sad that there doesn't seem to be any obvious way to really cure her.
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