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Monday, October 23, 2006

You can't make this stuff up (# 2)

A few years ago, I was walking into work and saw one of my patients in the waiting room. She was sitting next to a stuffed animal (a sheep) which had headphones on it with music blasting. The stuffed sheep was taking up its own separate seat. The patient had arrived for a feedback session. This was when I was still in training and my boss at the time wanted to get the point across to her that there was a psychological component to her symptoms (which she was blaming entirely on a head injury). The patient was upset and did not agree and demanded examples of something showing there was a psychological problem. My boss mentioned that one easy example is that she is sitting in the office with a stuffed teddy bear with music blasting in the headphones. The patient looks at us like we are crazy and says "It's not a stuffed teddy bear...It's a sheep!"

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