Elf Care

The title only has the feeblest of connections with the post, but it's a pun and it demanded to be written down.

It being a Sunday afternoon with precious little on telly, and having little inclination do do anything else, Beastie and I decided it was time to wade back into the House DVDs kindly loaned to us by itsjustaname. With the possibility of an episode later in the season that we forgot to tape, and which we will have to sort through the episode recaps for, I think we are now caught up. So time to get on with the much-delayed torrenting of season 2, I guess.

One of the catch-up episodes we watched involved a woman who appeared to be schizophrenic, but who in the end was diagnosed with, and treated for some unpronounceably rare condition involving copper. And she wasn't even a Vulcan, but she was an alcoholic (maybe she'd been eating the ring pulls or something).

As the treatment took hold, she stopped hearing the voices and having the visual hallucinations that had convinced everyone (pace Dr House, of course) that she was a schizophrenic. This led us to wonder whether different changes in symptoms might also indicate that treatment was slowly taking effect. Take Harvey, the eponymous giant, invisible rabbit that haunted and spoke to Jimmy Stewart's alcoholic Elwood P Dowd in the movie.

Could Elwood be said to be in recovery if Harvey had stopped talking to him, and started signing?

Elf Care

The title only has the feeblest of connections with the post, but it's a pun and it demanded to be written down.

It being a Sunday afternoon with precious little on telly, and having little inclination do do anything else, Beastie and I decided it was time to wade back into the House DVDs kindly loaned to us by itsjustaname. With the possibility of an episode later in the season that we forgot to tape, and which we will have to sort through the episode recaps for, I think we are now caught up. So time to get on with the much-delayed torrenting of season 2, I guess.

One of the catch-up episodes we watched involved a woman who appeared to be schizophrenic, but who in the end was diagnosed with, and treated for some unpronounceably rare condition involving copper. And she wasn't even a Vulcan, but she was an alcoholic (maybe she'd been eating the ring pulls or something).

As the treatment took hold, she stopped hearing the voices and having the visual hallucinations that had convinced everyone (pace Dr House, of course) that she was a schizophrenic. This led us to wonder whether different changes in symptoms might also indicate that treatment was slowly taking effect. Take Harvey, the eponymous giant, invisible rabbit that haunted and spoke to Jimmy Stewart's alcoholic Elwood P Dowd in the movie.

Could Elwood be said to be in recovery if Harvey had stopped talking to him, and started signing?