On the Adult Mental Health unit there would be "Text Book" cases of a variety of adults suffering with various disorders. I was the "Manager of Psychological Social Services" and responsible for the Social Workers, Counselors, sometimes RN's and other therapy staff.

One particular day, I was making my rounds and there happened to be 3 or 4 chronically, mentally ill adults that were delusional. I swear they were all staring at the TV and hallucinating. I walked in and joined them. I really didn't know what I was walking into, and truthfully didn't know what the hell I was doing. I looked at the TV and back at the RN station at the staff. They were doing their paperwork and were consumed with getting caught up on everything they needed to do. I tried to engage the adults in conversation, but they were all staring at the TV. The new Social Worker I just hired came onto the unit and joined me. Ron was quite a character himself. He thought outside of the box and that's why I liked him. He sat next to me and said....what are we doing? I said, I think were having a group hallucination and the TV is talking to us. Ron said quipped something along the lines of...I knew you were a good group therapist, but this takes the cake. Ron got up and went over to the TV and turned it on. The patients seemed startled and all got up and walked away. Ron shared that if that didn't "break this trance" he was going to stand behind the TV and start talking so they could be sure delusional together. That sure was a very interesting day.