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Mental Health Challenged

I recall the event in 2009 Christmas time, when a Nigerian man's pants alighted in flames as he sat in a plane en route to some state in the US - it was a botched attempt of his to blow-up the plane and cause the certain deaths of all on board. I've had a middle-aged female, dear to her relations, recently on admission on account of her Psychotic delusions which causes her the false belief that she is the pilot of a space-craft who's hotly pursued by agents determined to terminate her life! She would often scream-out, her face twisted in fear; her whole body contorted, as if taking desperate measures within the cockpit of that space-craft conceived in her deluded mind. While of course my psychotic patient is simply challenged in terms of her mental health, the same can not be said of the famed Christmas bomber - my fellow country man, sad to say, by the way. His may be viewed as a case of, well... being brain-washed; muddled-up political ideology-wise... Or why else wou