I once had a patient who was convinced that his head was full of sea water and a crab lived inside. When I asked him what happened to his brain he told me that aliens had sucked it out with a drinking straw." It is better this way, " he insisted. "Now there's more room for the crab. Michael Robotham
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A person can be very focused on certain things and completely oblivious to other things. This is a common belief of many patients while discussing their symptoms with a physician. This patient believed he had some kind of brain tumor and the only way this could be fixed was to remove some part or all of his brain. He wanted to be "cured" and was willing to give up anything that might keep him from being "cured."

Source: Shatter

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