Best medicine?
In lieu of any real content, have a silly interlude amidst the hours of therapy and adjustment of pill dosages…
The other day a bunch of us were sitting in the garden having post-group cigarettes and chatting. A fellow patient (and dear friend) and I got onto the topic of evil laughs. This was followed by a little competition to see who could do the best ‘evil laugh’, and then devolved into our just doing as many as we could. As more people got in on the silliness one patient let out an extremely loud “MWAH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAA” and the rest of us continued and tried to match it whilst giggling out lines from The Wizard of Oz (“I’ll get you, my pretty!”) and various other films featuring evil laughs.
At this point someone turned up at the door, laughing, asking us to please keep it down as we were disturbing the relaxation session a few doors down from the entrance to the garden. Apparently, hearing about twenty minutes of various people doing various evil cackles isn’t conducive to relaxation! It is, however, very good at getting the entire group to laugh helplessly as booming, shouted maniacal laughter drowned out the soft music whilst the session leader attempted to get them to relax.
I’m torn between some kind of ‘laughter is the best medicine!’ thing or just thinking that hey, we’re in a mental hospital. We might as well act like mental patients! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Or perhaps respecting their treatment sessions as you might wish them to do so. Disorders do not confer a superior right to deny other’s rights to what you expect.
Wow, ‘someone’! Way to have a sense of humour. If you read the post, you can see quite clearly that the interruption by laughter was accidental, not purposeful, and not prolonged after a request to stop. No claim of a right, meta or otherwise, to interrupt others’ treatment is made, either on grounds of madness or otherwise.
Remember, correct grammar and appropriate punctuation are your friends when seeking to make a point.