conspiracy theorist nutters? Meet 'em every day.
As a psychiatric nurse on an intensive care unit I meet all sorts of conspiracy theory nutters on a daily basis. Some of them are more entertaining than others, some of them are actually quite convincing, and others are just plain scary.

Just today I was told by one particularly charming chap that my place of work was "not a hospital, it's a prison to cover up torture rape and murder" just before asking for a light. This fellow also has a delusional conspiracy theory that is so unbelievably wide ranging and all encompassing that if he was able to write it all down he could probably sell it to hollywood. It includes Nazis, Russians, Identity theft. The lot. And it's surprisingly consistent.

His main story starts from the age of 12, when he was in hospital with a broken leg. He believes that he was tossed off by a nurse, and his high protein porridge was then used to create an army of super soldier clones. He was also apparently subject to much derision following a channel 4 documentary with a transvestite who looked just like him, with the film makers even going to the lengths of giving him a mole on his face so that he would look more like the man on the documentary. He delivers all this in the flattest possible monotone, and he just talks and talks at you until you switch off. He even stays monotone when he's calling you a paedo and accusing you of raping babies or telling you that you have just committed treason by giving an injection to a distant relative of the royal family.

All in all, he's not a very nice man, and as unprofessional as it may sound I have great difficulty in sympathising with him as he is always admitted due to non-compliance with his medication and illicit drug use (although he blames 'claustrophobia' and 'sleep deprivation' for his paranoia).
(mister kevin wants to be more like Matt Berry, Mon 31 Aug 2009, 21:17, Reply)