Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Tales from My Sharona, Volume II: What's a little mental illness?

My Sharona is a social worker who works with psychiatric patients. A woman came in to do a presentation on new psychotropic medications and symptom management. When she explained that some of the drugs can cause weight gain, My Sharona leaned over to her coworker and said:

I'd much rather be psychotic and thin.

Her coworker agreed.