Mixed Mercies.

An interesting but very draining week. On the up side, saw one very ill young man (paranoid schizophrenic, last week thought he was a biblical prophet) make a complete turnaround four days after starting on antipsychotic meds. On the down side, watched in horror as a borderline patient (a particularly frustrating pathology) pulled up her sleeves to show me the "tiger stripes" she had etched into her forearms with the end of a paperclip. Amazing what our brains will do to us, bathed in the wrong mix of neurotransmitters.