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If you don't laugh, you'll cry: easy child's wkly call from psychiatric ward where she "works"
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 610501" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Terry, I don't always diligently read the Water Cooler so I'm late to this party, but this absolutely cracked me up partly because I was a patient on a psychiatric ward and some of the patients were psychotic and I probably have a ton of stories too. I was there ten weeks so after getting over being scared, I JUST LAUGHED! You had to!</p><p></p><p>There was a woman once who was very, very manic and must have weighed four hundred pounds. One night she pranced into the hallway in her birthday suit with a sponge and was washing her, errrrr, privates while shouting about how she wanted everyone to forgive her for not contributing to the pizza we'd ordered out (and let her eat). "I AM FINANCIALLY EMBARASSED!" It was her favorite phrase and all the patient copied it. The dear girl. When not manic out of her mind, she was brilliant, spoke six languages, and had two degrees from college, but she was one of those patients whom medications never completely took away her psychosis. </p><p></p><p>Another time, a catatonic woman was brought in at night. As she sat in the day room waiting to be admitted, t he rest of us were sweating out our minds because there was no air conditioning t here and it was over 100 degrees outside. It was miserable and we were in a teaching hospital in a bad part of Chicago...we did not have suburban perks there like air conditioning on all floors, but we DID tend to get well, which is why I picked going there. Anyhow, back to the sweating. We were dipping clothes into cold water bowls when suddenly t he cataonic woman, who had not moved at all since coming in, suddenly jerked into life and started singing Christmas carols, with a vacant look in her eyes. I think all of us fell off the couch cracking up. It hardly felt like Christmas!!! (By the way, this particular young woman had stopped her medications and the hospital staff put her back on them. Two days later she was talking and interacting with us like nothing was wrong with her).</p><p></p><p>The miracles of medicine and the humor you HAVE to see or you'll cry <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 610501, member: 1550"] Terry, I don't always diligently read the Water Cooler so I'm late to this party, but this absolutely cracked me up partly because I was a patient on a psychiatric ward and some of the patients were psychotic and I probably have a ton of stories too. I was there ten weeks so after getting over being scared, I JUST LAUGHED! You had to! There was a woman once who was very, very manic and must have weighed four hundred pounds. One night she pranced into the hallway in her birthday suit with a sponge and was washing her, errrrr, privates while shouting about how she wanted everyone to forgive her for not contributing to the pizza we'd ordered out (and let her eat). "I AM FINANCIALLY EMBARASSED!" It was her favorite phrase and all the patient copied it. The dear girl. When not manic out of her mind, she was brilliant, spoke six languages, and had two degrees from college, but she was one of those patients whom medications never completely took away her psychosis. Another time, a catatonic woman was brought in at night. As she sat in the day room waiting to be admitted, t he rest of us were sweating out our minds because there was no air conditioning t here and it was over 100 degrees outside. It was miserable and we were in a teaching hospital in a bad part of Chicago...we did not have suburban perks there like air conditioning on all floors, but we DID tend to get well, which is why I picked going there. Anyhow, back to the sweating. We were dipping clothes into cold water bowls when suddenly t he cataonic woman, who had not moved at all since coming in, suddenly jerked into life and started singing Christmas carols, with a vacant look in her eyes. I think all of us fell off the couch cracking up. It hardly felt like Christmas!!! (By the way, this particular young woman had stopped her medications and the hospital staff put her back on them. Two days later she was talking and interacting with us like nothing was wrong with her). The miracles of medicine and the humor you HAVE to see or you'll cry :) [/QUOTE]
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