I have heard this sort of thing a whole lot over the years and the most recent time was just a day or two ago.
Two or three students say, “I think that is her...or there she is...I really want to talk to her about it.” Then another will say, “We can’t. The Doctor says we are not to talk to her.”
Since there are dozens of ‘doctors’ involved in my case, I always wonder which of these they are talking about at any given time. Is it the same ‘doctor’ or is it several different doctors all of whom are warning everyone, everywhere, that they are not to talk to me. You see I too have been warned not to talk by several different doctors, so I can’t help but wonder if this ‘Doctor’ is one of them or some other Doctor issuing the same warnings.
I have such a strong urge to ask, Dr. WHO?
But I know better you see. If I, as a psychiatrized person, were to ask Dr. WHO?...it would be very likely that some doctors, or psychiatric nurses, or support workers from other agencies, or just folks on the streets these days, would ‘interpret’ that for me and others in psychiatric terms. It would go something like this:
Did you hear that Brunhilda? She must think she is in that British Sci Fi saga, Dr. Who. Ohhhh...I wonder who she thinks we are? I wonder if she thinks that we are the Dalek
I bet she believes we are the Cybermen because they have no bodies or human emotions anymore just brains and no flesh...tee hee teee heee

Then they might call Joel Gold in Montreal and he could invent this as a new ‘disease’ for me to have to be added to the Big Book of Insanity alongside of Truman Disorder and The Matrix Syndrome. Hmmm what will we call my new disease now...how about Cybermen Psychosis? Or maybe we could call it Identification Confusion Syndrome?
Once ‘identified’ anyone coming after me and entering the mental illness system and who wonders about the doctor asking, who is the Doctor? Will be instantly identified as mentally ill and no one will ever actually hear the simple question which he or she is asking, ever again. Meaning will be gone and reality will have been reinvented in pathological terms as a disease process, all because I could not suppress my urge to ask Dr. WHO?
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