Mental health patients

:open_mouth: Oh Mr wilks you naughty man :wink:

Huh, what? Who?

Saw a girl this weekend who really scared my member. :open_mouth: Oooppps - wrong kinda member. :o My bad. :roll_eyes:

Of course we don’t . What kind of cads do you think we are? :open_mouth: :roll_eyes:

As long as I don’t have to dance nekkid around an oak tree at midnight - just send me some pheros from time to time and go ahead and take over. It isn’t like most politicians have any real training running a country either. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve had five years of experiance working with mentally challenged individuals. During this time a majority of these patients were prone to seizures. Now despite what the movies show, most do not involve a person thrashing around on the ground. As a matter of fact the more mild versions are frequently not even recognised by a person who doesn’t know what to look for. There might be a twitching of the facial muscles or simply staring out into space. What ever form it takes the person is unresponsive. I believe this would even account for a blank spot in an individual’s memory. I wonder if it is possible the patient you were with could have simply experienced a mild seizure? The timing could have been a coincidence or it could have been brought on by having a liquid sprayed so near to their face. While being sprayed isn’t a typical trigger, I did have one girl who would frequently have one shortly after stepping into the shower.

I know this is a little freaky.
but i myself, have a few severe mental disorders. well one thats official. the others were self diagnosed. i have been through a severe depression, went to a mental hospital for 6 months while on xanax, got out of the hospital and things are all coming together, slowly but surely.
what i want to say actually
is that while i was so warped up in my problems ( which i didnt recognize ) that i had an incurable desire to HELP others who were seriously disturbed, almost as much as i was. actuallly even more so.
and i know i’ve read in places that people who do things when they’re older, generally had a history of around the same thing when they were maturing. i dont know the scientific proof behind all that but im just sayin.
maybe the doctors have a history of mental illness as well?

I have encountered a number of unusual people in mental health fields. Some in my unprofessional opinion had personality disorders or other mental illnesses. Some were drug addicts. Some were criminals. Again, in my limited experience, the mental health field seems uncommonly weighted towards these character defects when compared to the health care field in general.

Yeah, psychiatrists seem notorious for getting into the field to treat themselves.

possibly relevant;
Some people with chronic schizophrenia characterized by predominantly disorganized and negative symptoms have been found to have an unusual, specific odor to their sweat and they have also been found to have impairment detecting certain odors.

The chemical exuded in the sweat of these patients with chronic schizophrenia causing the distinct odor is a chemical called trans-3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid (MHA). Schizophrenia Daily News Blog: Chemical in Sweat and Inability to Smell it May be Schizophrenia Marker

And from this very forum;

My favorite odoriferous compound is 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid. This is the essence of human sweat. One drop makes an entire room smell like the locker room of the Stanford Football team after losing to UC Berkeley in an overtime game on a hot day while wearing already smelly jerseys and soiled jock straps. It is super strong! Interestingly, people suffering from schizophrenia have a much higher concentration of this in their sweat. I have made a cologne consisting of 3-methyl-2-hexenoic acid with androstenedione and have found this to activate bonding and mating behavior in women. It is really amazing stuff!