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21 Mentally Ill Patients Made These Profound Insights

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My father worked in day institute for the mentally disabled. One of the patients would sneak away, put on overalls and pretend to be one of the staff. When vans backed into the delivery bay he would wave them in saying ‘Back, back. Keep going. A bit more. Back.’ Smash. Straight into the wall. One time, the driver jumped out and screamed ‘Why the hell did you do that?’ The patient cupped his hands to his mouth and made a harmonica sound. Then he opened his hands and said, ‘Look, look…no harmonica.’ That’s profound.

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I work with a girl in her 20’s who acts like someone much younger. I asked her why she watched Hannah Montana and The Wizard show (the one with the super hot mom), she said “because I like it.” I said “but people your age do more grown up things.” She said “people my age don’t make me smile as much as these shows do.” I didn’t know what to say.

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Sitting in a class graduate therapy class my professor brought in a former patient his who was extremely bi-polar. She had been homeless and so many bad things had happened to her. She said one thing that stuck with me throughout my entire career so far. She said “If you want to help me don’t tell me how to drive the car, meaning herself, get in the car and drive with me.” Best advice on helping people ever.

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I was working on a project where I had to look at the Facebook activity of depressed individuals (previously screened). The most profound thing i noticed was they were all smiling in their pictures. You just can’t tell who is severely depress just from the look of them, even depressed people smile.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.