frankb
Senior member
- Joined
- Jun 8, 2011
- Messages
- 587
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 10/2010
- Country
- US
- State
- Georgia
- City
- Sandy Springs
Ralph and Edna were patients in a mental hospital and were very close friends. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool, Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you're being discharged since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. . . I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you save him. I am so sorry, but he is dead."
Edna replied: "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"
Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna's heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital as she now considered her to be mentally stable. When she went to tell Edna the news she said, "Edna, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is you're being discharged since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. . . I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you save him. I am so sorry, but he is dead."
Edna replied: "He didn't hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?"
