Dr. Ray Catania describes telling his new girlfriend, a psychologist, that he's been seeing people who aren't there. He'd already called his brother about his DNR paperwork. Her response: she connects it to her dead father, and he realizes the relationship might not survive his worst self.
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Call my brother and I'm like, you have my will, right? And I want to do a DNR. Make sure they do not resuscitate me. I'm going back to that light. And he's like, what's going on? What's the matter? I was like, nothing. I just want to make sure you have the paperwork. So I'm planning for the end. And now I have to tell this woman I just fell in love with that I'm crazy and she needs to move on with her life and find somebody else who's not crazy. And if the story is not crazy enough already, She is by trade a doctor of psychology and neuropsychology. So I'm going to tell a psychologist that I see people that aren't there. So this isn't going to go over too well. So I finally get the courage and I tell her. So I'm telling her what I see. Okay, well, he's got dark black hair and he's beard, mustache, stocky guy. And he says, I have to stop making a mistake. You can help me wake up. And she said, "That sounds like my dad." And I said, "Babe, your dad is dead. You told me he was dead a long time ago, okay?" Now I think she's crazy and I gotta get the hell out of here. You think I see dead people?