Precautions taken against tiger attack Chapter 5
By Terrence Oblong
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Stephen has improved immensely since he started on his medication. He no longer has delusions about talking tigers and government conspiracies.
His intellectual abilities have declined slightly since he began his medication, but today he recognised the sun in the sky and showed great interest in a flower.
Most importantly, he seems happy and is no longer full of the intense anger he had when he first moved into Happy Home and has stopped banging on the door of his care-room and shouting out to be released.
I placated him somewhat by meeting his request to send some “secret papers” to an American, who he claimed was a friend of his.
Stephen’s papers were so ‘secret’ that he’d buried them in an envelope in a metal box under a particular tree in Hyde Park. I felt like a spy from a 70s thriller when I went to the park armed with a borrowed metal detector, a spade and the map Stephen had drawn. I wondered at first whether I was going to find a severed head, but it was just papers. Not exactly secret though, the first thing I came across was a copy of a government Bill, a document any one of us could download in a moment.
It’s a great example of the things you have to deal with when you work with the mentally ill.
I send the envelope off, anyway, and Stephen got a nice postcard from his friend saying “Stay cool Steve, it may take some time but the shit will hit the fan.”
I believe that my little act of kindness, combined with the medication, has helped to make Stephen a different person. I have every hope that he’ll eventually be able to come off the drugs and live a normal life.
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