Word: wackier
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...days, Patient Carlin had spent 31? (all the money he had) for newspapers, had taken to playing checkers with fellow inmates, had dropped his depressed air. "But the more natural I acted," he said, "the wackier they thought I was." At the end of ten days, Patient Carlin was losing sleep, losing his appetite for the drab, saltless food, and began to realize that his surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim...