People turn crazy and creepy as hell when they get really sick. There's even a term called ICU psychosis.... And trust me, it's real. Anyway, the creepiest that takes the cake for me is this (am an ICU nurse, btw):
Had a patient who with a very long history of mental health problems. She was thrashing around in bed, very combative, kicking people for days, totally incoherent. Well the night I had her, she started making decent sense, but still not oriented at all. She was extremely paranoid and kept talking about the man in black in the corner. I'd hear her talking to him and screaming, all night long. So I'd go in there and try to calm her down, but you could see the fear in her eyes. she was talking other nonsense about how she was in space, and with certain patients, you try to redirect their "reality", but what I did didn't help.
She said "that man in black! Don't you see him!" And pointed to the corner. I said "there's nobody here. I stepped in the corner she was pointing to and waved my hands around. While I'm waving my hands around in the air, she had the most horrifically terrified look on her face that actually scared me, like I had just attacked the man in black. I said "see, there's nobody here" and she said in a matter-of-factly: "that's what you think". I promptly got out of there.
Had a patient who with a very long history of mental health problems. She was thrashing around in bed, very combative, kicking people for days, totally incoherent. Well the night I had her, she started making decent sense, but still not oriented at all. She was extremely paranoid and kept talking about the man in black in the corner. I'd hear her talking to him and screaming, all night long. So I'd go in there and try to calm her down, but you could see the fear in her eyes. she was talking other nonsense about how she was in space, and with certain patients, you try to redirect their "reality", but what I did didn't help.
She said "that man in black! Don't you see him!" And pointed to the corner. I said "there's nobody here. I stepped in the corner she was pointing to and waved my hands around. While I'm waving my hands around in the air, she had the most horrifically terrified look on her face that actually scared me, like I had just attacked the man in black. I said "see, there's nobody here" and she said in a matter-of-factly: "that's what you think". I promptly got out of there.