It’s crazy here in CrazyTown. When you lay down to take a nap all the people you said see you later to are gone and have been replaced by new faces by the time you wake up.
Some of them are bright red because their blood pressure is so high they’re about to bust like an old mercury thermometer that has reached it’s boiling point.
Some of them are pop-eyed so wide open and looking around the room so fast that they seem chameleon like, as if each eye is going it’s own way.
Some of them are jittery; they can’t sit still; they keep flitting about the room; moving from one chair to another; jumping from one conversation to another; and talking so fast that they make no sense anyway.
Others are clearly blithering idiots walking back and forth, back and forth or in small, tight circles in their bath robes and slippers with their hair in a matted mess talking pointedly to no one while making wild hand gestures and pointing now and then.
There are the ones who for the most part are quiet, but sort of socialize by sitting with the group and every now and then offering a look or perhaps cracking a weak smile or comment. They mostly stare blankly in the general direction of the television. Every once in a while they may be prone to an “outburst”, to which one may not want to be to near.
Then there are those that don’t do much of anything. They don’t socialize, attend groups, talk to themselves, groom themselves, attend many meals, take their meds, or much of anything. I just don’t know what to make of those ones. Who does?
There’s another group who doesn’t attend group either. This is so that while everyone else is in group she/he (she) can go through everyones room and see what they would like to “borrow” (steal). In this instance it was socks. [Unfortunately I did not notice mine were missing until I was home unpacking.]
Then there’s another category which I am not even sure how to describe. They are a very needy personality type, craving attention constantly. I have seen them hurt themselves and others, throw fits and tantrums, refuse to eat, refuse to bathe, refuse meds, and any thing else you can think of to attain attention. I know of no ends they will not go to.
And then there are those who are just a bit off kilter and are trying to get in balance. They are doing fairly well, but have their off days. Not like “normal” people. The off days off kilter people have are a little more off than the off days that normal people have, but not so far out of wack that they can’t be adjusted…….with the help of a medical professional, of course.
Yep, it’s crazy here in CrazyTown. I’m not it making it up though. It’s a real place. Only it’s not really called CrazyTown. It’s the place I was released from a few days ago. It’s the mental hospital just down the street from anywhere in anytown, USA. Yeah…….
