Psychotic Break

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I had the pleasure of working as an orderly at the state mental hospital. No, I never got to have a break from reality, psychotic wise, but I did get to watch a bunch of them, tackle a few, toss them into the rubber room.

What was really entertaining is when two of the basket cases would both claim to be Jesus and get to duking it out over who was Jesus. Each one would accuse the other of being the anti-christ.

Sometimes I would play God. More than once we'd have a psycho who'd refuse their medication.
I would wait until later when they were lying quietly in their bed and I would hide behind the door.

"Jose'.....Jose'....this is the Lord. Take your medicina. For it is good. It has been blessed."
Worked a couple times.

Another good one, I'd go get our resident Jesus (there was ALWAYS one) to "bless" the refusers medication for him. That worked sometimes too.

Oh the fun. I miss those years.


edited to add: Yes, I found your (not specifically you, generally speaking) mental illnesses entertaining, so sue me.