Volume 4 Issue 6 June, 2014
A young man, an old patient of mine treated for an acute psychotic episode, visited my clinic to give me his marriage invitation. He insisted that I attend his marriage. On asking him whether he has told the girl and her family about having had psychiatric treatment he said that he has not, as he felt had he revealed it no one would agree to
marry him. I wondered how he would manage to take his medicines without her knowledge after marriage. After about a week a young female patient of mine came to give me invitation for her marriage. She also was on maintenance medication for an acute psychotic episode she had suffered. She too said that she had kept this fact a secret from her bridegroom and his family for the same reason which the boy had offered. After she left I glanced over the details of the wedding and I was surprised to note that she was getting married to the same boy who had given me invitation of his marriage the previous week. I could only wish that both would lead a happy life despite keeping this secret from each other and without any relapse or recurrence.
