All of them, I tell them my story. I tell them who I am and what it’s like to be me.
“What do you think?”
“I think your interesting.”
Hur dee durr.
I’m a doctor trained to the core in all things abnormal and normal medically, to everyone else I am blasé but YOU you freak of nature You’re interesting!
When I first started hearing voices, my family doctor said to me, as long as the therapists find you interesting you will have their attention and get good access to therapy. So perhaps it’s not entirely a bad thing.
Later on it led me to devise a strategy for drip feeding them information from my episode, to stay interesting for as long as possible. It didn’t really work, I’m sad to say.
I don’t mind being labelled as interesting. It’s flattering. “A most interesting dilemma” yup it’s interesting, just maybe not attractive, like a Mohawk.
I don’t see being called “interesting” as negative. It means they’re interested in your story. When someone outside the confines of the mental health system says I am interesting I am flattered. Being called “interesting” is much better than being called “boring”.
How can something so painful be interesting right?
Depends what they call interesting and why.
As one of the most annoying people on earth i will contemplate this for a long time for no reason and decide whether or not them calling you interesting is acceptable behaviour. Of course what i decide will be entirely inconsequential.
I didn’t care much for it when they weren’t doing anything useful for me. As time has passed, however, I get why they say that. But, of course, I have done a lot of what they told me to do, and I am a lot better now than I was back then.
My distrust of the intentions of supposed caregivers was intense back then. For a good reason. I saw them then as like my invasively “helpful” – and then suddenly viciously abusive – adoptive mother (a nurse, btw). I transferred my appraisal of her onto pretty much everyone who was trying to “helpful” because the “adult children” in my head just knew that the other shoe was going to drop sooner or later.
Sew I don’t accept that. They are doctors. They are trained to handle things like this. Someone needs to set them right. Being called interesting by a doctor makes me feel broken. I always feel broken I am broken but when a doctors uses the word interesting it makes you feel like the most broken broken ever to broke an inn.
I like being called interesting, because I personally find myself very interesting. It also means they’re likely to think about you after you leave instead of just filing you away. That makes it more likely they’ll be able to come up with a treatment for you. And they probably enjoy the time you spend with them, because it engages their brain in a new way.