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I am sitting here in from of a new patient of mine. He had recently committed a crime, a serious one. However, his mental status does seem to be… not intact. Simply sitting here I can see something off about him. I have been told about what he has done, but as a psychologist, my job is to look at his view point of the occurrence, then determine if he should be punished, or if his mental status is too defective.
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He has started telling me about his thought of the old man before what happened. He explained his eye. Apparently the old man’s eye was unsettling. Simply seeing the eye makes him enraged. He did clarify that his thoughts of the old man. He was not upset at the old man because he had never wronged my patient. This shows cleat mental flaws and at the moment I am thinking he might be too mentally ill to take the punishment for his crime.
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He has told me how he would ever so slowly creep into the doorway and slowly open the door. Then, he would turn on one faint light. He said every night the old man’s eyes would be closed. Because of this, he could never go through with the crime. It was always the man’s eye that enraged him, not the man himself. But he would spend hours, just creeping in the doorway. This shows even further signs of a severe mental illness as extreme act of patience has been shown a sign of psychotic actions.
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