Victory Came With A Side Effect

Victory came with burden.
Patient: Billy pilgrim
Disease: the patient happened to be a prisoner of war, the usual side effects. (“I was in Dresden when it was Bombed. I was a prisoner of war.” Sgh5 pg 193):
1. Hallucinations caused by possible brain exhaustion.
• “And then Billy was allowed to speak. Off he went, in that beautifully trained voice of his, telling about the flying saucers and Montana Wildhack and so on.”(Sgh5 pg206)
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2. The patient may experience a possible creation of an alternate world, mixing the things he sees and pretending is magical.
• Things like the life of a character in a book can be confused as his own. “The time-traveler in the book went back to the bible times to find out one thing in particular.”(sgh5 pg 208)
• “Billy closed his eyes, traveled in time to a May afternoon, two days after the end Second World War in Europe.” (sgh5 pg 193)


Observations: sleep talks, “all he does in his sleep is quit and surrender and apologize and ask to be left alone” (sgh50g. 184) observation made by his roommate.
Comments, and suggested treatment: this man time traveler, several days after release abducted by aliens so he claims. The medical report suggests strongly keeping the patient under severe physiological observation until further notice. A recent patient of mine, Valencia Pilgrim died in her way to the hospital who happens to be Billy Pilgrim’s wife. In conclusion, this patient clearly suffers from emotional exhaustion and post-war disease. Never under any circumstances leave this patient alone possible sign of dementia, he can overwhelm a person and making him believe that he was indeed a time traveler but now he is a lonely men suffering a victory burden.