Dr. Fletcher

(writing notes) Suzie wrote on www.helpmypatients.com: "You want Helen to stop harping on absurd dreams? Tell her they're not a sign of classical neurosis but of serious mental impairment."

Helen

I've been having these dreams recently, incessantly, repeating every single night. And they're very troubling. The way that the dreams happen is that I'm in my home and I start cooking all these objects in my house. I'll boil a pair of scissors. I'll take my hairbrush and put it in the over. One by one I will systematically cook everything in my house.

Dr. Fletcher

Everything in your house?

Helen

Every object. Every object that's about this big.

(gestures)

And I don't know if this has to do with any childhood memories. I was trying to recall the relationships I had with the objects in my house as a child but -

Dr. Fletcher

Well, it's interesting that you bring that up because I actually have had a number of patients who have had sequences of dreams that are similar to this.

Helen

Really?

Dr. Fletcher

Nonsense dreams. Yeah. And unfortunately it's a sign of a decline in mental stability. I've actually had to have a number of patients committed after they came to me with dreams like this, because it's usually a sign that things are on a pretty fast decline.

Helen

Oh. Well anyway, there's this guy at work...

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