Of all the colourful pics in Taste my favourite one is the only black and white one. It can be found on page four. Simply schintillating.

I have noticed that men in their 40s-50s usually suffer psychotic depression because they were mummy’s boys (mammoni) and they remained under their maternal spell.

I mail it to my relatives in Canada, after I’ve ‘devoured’ it, They love it.

My point: Serious psychotic illness (eg: The devil speaks to me and tells me to kill people) is not common.

[Daphne – That’s what I meant. It doesn’t have to be ‘the devil speaks to me and tells me to kill people’. That’s the kind of thing you get with schizophrenia. You can have a seriously depressed person suffering from paranoid delusions, who fixates on certain topics and thinks that everyone is after him or her. That too is psychotic, but those sorts of people are usually at home, not at Mount Carmel or noted schizophrenics.]

Psychosis can be caused by predisposing factors which are triggered by environmental factors or else just by triggers such as chronic alcohol abuse and drug use. Since I do not think that migrants are abusing alcohol especially when they are in detention, I would look at what is causing their psychosis.

I am not going to jump to any conclusions but I’ve heard that wardens in prisons give out medicines which they think will keep inmates quiet like they were giving out smarties.