Worst first date - He was a psychiatric nurse but to be honest he could have been one of the patients. We went to a posh hotel bar and drank expensive wine. He had been a journalist before he did the nursing stuff so he kept questioning me about writing. Then he told me that being with me was like a slap in the face. I didn't return his calls.

Best first date - you already know - the story has been retold soooo many times. Tate Modern, pub, chat, chat, chat, missed train, hotel room.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:34, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

All psychiatric nurses could be patients
You don't make a cake without getting covered in flour...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:36, Reply)

Yeah, one of my mates is a theatre sister at a local hospital
she said when she did her psych rotation in training that the staff and patients were indistinguishable - especially as they don't wear uniform.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:40, Reply)

That is most troubling
There could be millions of 'em roaming about while the staff jibber away in their padded cells, unable to convince anybody of the truth.
The more I think about people I know, the more this seems plausible.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:42, Reply)

I've been to visit someone on
a nut ward - I really didn't know who was an inmate, a jailer or a visitor
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:43, Reply)

I hope you didn't use those terms in front of the nut you were visiting

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:45, Reply)

um no
but I had to tell my brother not to wear his "out of my tree" t-shirt
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Did you see that programme on BBC the other night called 'Madness on the motorway'?
All about Swedish twin sisters who ran across the M6 two years ago then a couple of days later one of them stabbed some man. Both of them were temporarily insane. The one who did the stabbing seemed a bit odd but sane.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:46, Reply)

I think a friend of mine has that 'folie a deux' with her mum
My other friend's dad (a psychiatric something or other)explained it to us ages ago and it all made sense. If you didn't know her, you'd think she was schizophrenic, but it's just that growing up with her mum, she's come to accept that demons and hearing voices and ghosts being able to physically harm you is all 'normal'.

And yes, that documentary was crazeh.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:50, Reply)

It made me really sad for the family of that guy

(Bazongaloid, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Me too
I was cross for them. If only they'd kept her in.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 12 Aug 2010, 11:53, Reply)