Oh if you want to see the "best" worst show on mental illness ever made, you nee to watch "Psych." I think there were like, 6 episodes but EVERY one is worth a watch. It briefly appeared after House, and like was sort of similar except the actor playing the "psych" version of "House" had none of the Charisma and awesomeness of a Hugh Laurie.
In the pilot the psychiatrist stripped down bone naked to "connect" with this schizophrenic who thought clothes contained demons or SOMETHING, I forget. I DO remember thinking, "If ANY psychiatrist ever stripped down naked to connect with me I would just DIE, and then also SUE." But then the psychiatrist (in an effort to discover more about his patient) BROKE INTO the guys place and took a look around. It turned out he was artistic like and his meds took that away and so they reduced his meds greatly and like, gave him "acupuncture and aromatherapy."
That show made me move a psychiatry appointment and like, it was because my pdoc at the time was this very earnest, skinny and hairy dude, and I kept imagining him STRIPPIING down naked BEFORE me, and like, I actually couldn't stop laughing. I was terrified I was gonna start giggling at my appointment and like, my pdoc,. being who he was, would ask WHY and I am a poor liar.... I needed time for it to wear OFF.
I knew after the pilot this show's days were numbered but they did manage to get in the fabled unicorn "Folie a deux" diagnosis, where you have your primary hallucinator, who is psycho, but has an easily influenced partner who then begins to believe the hallucinations too .It's like one in a billion or something.
The primary hallucinator was an OBGYN and he (and his wife) were really pretty damn sure she was pregnant but it was not the case alas.
So, the psych guy convinced the OBGYN his wife's pregnancy was like fatally flawed and needed to be aborted and insisted he do it and there was this creepy scene of the OBYGN ADVANCING upon his wife and I was like,"Dood, this is not COOL I bet a D$C isn't good for you PERIOD let alone one performed by a psychotic spouse." But, the guy realized he loved his wife too much and their "mutual hallucination" was fixed.
Damn it. I miss that show so much.
There was of course an episode on ECT. I think lighting was involved somehow? I can't remember. I should re-watch.
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