02 Psycho Understood
Patient M-0253 visits Dr. Sara Luna at Baptist Universal Outpatient Clinic
Patient M-0253 Summary First Session:
Patient M-0253, who was referred to me by his primary physician, Dr. Handy Forestaller, first presented himself to me in my office at the Baptist Universal Psychiatric Outpatient Annex on 9 January, the Year of Our Lord 2023, Praise Be to God.
January 9 happens to be M-0253’s 77th birthday. He seemed to be an amiable, soft-spoken, highly educated and compliant gentleman, somewhat disoriented during our Introductory Interview, stating that, although he was “present and accounted for,” he was “not altogether here,” and had “trouble keeping track of the time.” His file indicated he had complained of abuse and medical procedures during his childhood.
All that gibed with Dr. Forestall’s referral, positing that M could be suffering from my specialty, Dissociative Identity Disorder.
I noticed three distinct personalities during our first interview, yet I noted a monomaniacal tendency overriding them all: a fixation on a central notion that stem cell brain regeneration would extend his life to 150 years so he could fulfill his duly interpreted childhood dream of saving humankind with a crystal penis he had found when he dove into an underwater cave.
M-0253 asked me if I had examined his “Memento” files, the link to which he had provided my office beforehand.
“These postings are all about me. I am compiling them prior to my brain regeneration so I may recover myself after the stem cell injections.”
“So you would continue to be who you are now rather than become someone else?”
“I do not know exactly who I am, but I feel and remember I am someone and everyone and many animals besides the elements. If I were to become someone who could not remember myself, there would be no reason to persist, even in heaven, for there would be no “I” there that I knew of. I do not like myself as I am, and I might as well die instead of being reborn as someone else, although the idea of a future person I cannot know might be comforting to me if I could believe it without any evidence whatsoever, but that person could be anybody, so what would that have to do with me? ”
I had reviewed M-0253’s biographical mementos prior to our first meeting. I made this list for future reference:
“Loss of mother; abandoned; isolated; solitary; betrayed; distrustful; inquisitive; studious, rantionalizer; argumentative; juvenile delinquent; reckless; runaway; violent temper; feels fated; paranoid delusions, grandeur and persecution; narcissistic; melancholy; nightmares, graves, corpses; ghosts.”
M said he had lied so people would believe he was sane, but now he is one of the few humans on Earth who is actually sane.
“The thing called me was a monster pieced together by accidental circumstances. I am a basically a lover, not a hater. I am sane, not insane. I finally understand.”
I replied, “Then why are you here?”
“To be understood, for Christ’s sake.”
Signed: Sara Luna, M.D.