The Case Card of
a Typical Randlane Actor

The patient: A Sunday actor/actress, also an amateur
Symptoms: Most often are cases when the patient leaves suddenly home or work and gives an “excuse” as a “rehearsal”, a “performance”, etc.; an irresistible will of “acting”, i.e. not being oneself; before the “theatrical” the sick often feel agitated, sometimes even panic-stricken, which, after the “performance” ends, turns into euphoria, oppression or content; strong “cattle instinct” which appears in the will to “communicate”, celebrate red letter days together and even have lunch together; at a severe case the sick spend days and/or nights in the hall of a small “recreation centre”, even if there is nothing to do for them.
Diagnosis: An extraordinarily altruistic form of “love for theatre”
Prognosis: Progressive

Treatment: Doesn’t subject to any known hacks of common medicine. Soothable in a small amount and temporarily with physiotherapy. The impact of alternative medicine unknown. Total isolation could cause severe psychic disturbance. The only known method to ease the process of the illness is to let the patient act in his/her own favourite area (to allow the person freely to the “stage”), give the person the permission to enter his/her wanted “role”. Constant medical supervision is necessary, also to assure the presence of a so-called “director”.
Preventive maintenance: As the first symptoms of the disease assert in most cases in childhood or in adolescence, the parents of the poorly should be asked to turn to local “therapeutic institutions” – acting classes of music schools, school theatres or “amateur acting classes” – as soon as applicable symptoms come to service. In severer cases the doctor in chief should be contacted.