A patient gave me a bit of a tip today in an interview.  He said if I ever needed a bigger brain, laughing makes your brain go bigger.  It was just one of the many disordered thoughts he relayed to me.  I have been involved in some pretty incredible conversations in the last six weeks.  Some of the thoughts are even so disordered it’s practically impossible to remember them.  Something about a string of unrelated words that is really tricky to recall.  Some of them end up being funny and some of them end up being really sad, but I think the thing is that the patient is just trying to make sense of their world as much as you are.

I am finding making sense of it all really taxing.  Maybe I should put less stock in the things they say.  Maybe I just need to see more so that I am more used to it.  I think either way, I’ll end up doing both.

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