Dr Helena was a third-generation psychiatrist who had heard of adult babies but didn't really know much about them, like so many of her colleagues. Intrigued by the challenge, she attempted the well-tried technique beloved of parents of teenagers who had tried smoking. She decided to give him full-time babying for a week or two so that he would see that it wasn't really what he wanted after all. Then, she could treat the core problem once he realised that he didn't really want to be a baby at all.
A nice idea. But it backfired.
Read on to see what happened.