psychiatry

currently im having psychiatry posting. contrary to what had been told to me by others, its been a rather interesting posting. on the first day, we had to interview this 21 year old malay girl with mania. if they hadnt told me she was mentally ill, i wouldnt have known it. anyway, she has this delusion where she claims that she is waiting for this 'raja putera' to come marry her. thats why at night she has problem sleeping. previously she had two epsisodes of insomnia at age 16 and 17. the reason then was because she was preoccupied with the desire to rape someone. she appears to be very religious but yet has many sexual fetishes. being a manic patient, she occasionally looks to the crowd and speak to them as thought she knows them personally.

she looked at my female colleague who was sitting in front and said, "eh, lu kakar ipar saya kan!!? jangan marah sama abang long ya. dia kadang kadang memang kurang ajar tapi dia orang yang baik. eh itu cincin tunang kan? boleh saya tengok??" at at this point i think my colleague freaked out but before you know it the patient was targeting someone else. i had a friend who has a habit of eating chewing gums in class. the lecturer saw him and ticked him off. suddenly the malay girl looked at my friend and said, "engkau yang raba mak aku kan!! ah, padan muka kena marah. ah raba lagi!! raba lagi!!"

during interview sessions we have to ask patients the meaning of some proverbs to evaluate their abstract thinking ability. there was this chinese lady with schizophrenia and it went like tat:

interviewer: auntie, can you please tell me the meaning of katak bawah tempurung??
auntie: katak bawah tempurung.... YOU LA!!

its fun being with this people.......