Doctors Are Sharing The Scariest Thing They’ve Seen A Patient Say Or Do

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“I was a very new intern, working in the ED. I got asked to see a young woman patient and the diagnosis put beside her name by triage staff said ‘SELF HARM.’”

“So I took her into a consult room and tried my best to ask her about what was happening. She said to me ‘I think someone was in my room last night,’ and I was like, hmm that’s a weird way to start to talk about self-harm, but I answered “oh…ok…why do you say that?” And she lifted up her shirt to show me the words ‘HELP ME’ carved into her abdomen. The cuts individually were very thin, made by a razor blade, but each letter had been gone over many times so they were deep and quite fresh, still bleeding. I looked up at her horrified, and she said “I don’t know who but someone must have done this to me while I was asleep because I don’t remember doing it to myself.” The psychiatrist she saw after me thought the patient might’ve had dissociative amnesia but I’m not sure what happened after that.That was like, 20 years ago, and I can still feel the unease of that encounter.”

–noyoureshmoopy