Early on in my professional life, I worked in a psychiatric secure ward, meaning that the patients could not leave.

I seemed to get drawn in to the world of my patients, luckily I had constant clinical supervision.

one patient was well known for telling huge lies about his life. He told me had had been a professional drummer in a well known band and that they had a few famous records that could be heard of Youtube.

I was naive and still learning my trade craft. I looked up the bands name and searched youtube.

I was really hurt when my supervisor told me this story was untrue.

She said "you seem to forget that all the people in here suffer from extreme forms of mental illness.

So I say to you:

you seem to forget that you are dealing with a machine and not a human.