Montgomery Hills Psychiatric Hospital: Chapter Two
Ch. 1
Welcome back to the nut house! There is something very wrong going on here. I may not be a lawyer, but I am positive that this place is breaking a bunch of laws! There aren't enough beds for everyone, and only one bathroom for a co-ed facility just screams sexual harassment lawsuit! Plus, while I appreciate having the pond on the grounds, I can't help but feel that if this really is a psychiatric hospital a pond is not the best idea.
Whoever is in charge here also seems to want to limit our contact with each other as much as possible. There is only one small table with one chair. Social interaction over dinner is not happening here. Of course, I have yet to see a single person who appears to be an employee here. There is me and the other patients, but I haven't seen a single other person this entire time. How are they supposed to fix everyone's problems if they are never around?
Maylana has only showed two different personalities since I have arrived, although John claims to have met at least four of them. Maylana's dominant personality is very quiet and shy. After talking with her on several occasions I discovered that Maylana has more than just disassociative identity disorder (multiple personalities). The poor girl's dominant personality suffers from taijin kyofusho sydrome (TKS). TKS is actually very uncommon in this part of the world, so it shocked me when I realized that was her problem. TKS is a social phobia that makes Maylana so afraid of offending other people through awkward social or physical behavior that she avoids all contact with others.
Her other personality calls herself Mai Ling. Mai Ling is outgoing, lots of fun, and loves to talk. In short, Mai Ling is the exact opposite of Maylana. I'm no shrink, but I bet that Maylana's personality disorder is a direct result of her problem with TKS.
Quinn's problem is almost amusing. He can often feel when a narcoleptic episode is coming on and he tries to make it to the bed. Most of the time he ends up sleeping on the floor. Laura and Mai Ling have been worrying about him constantly. They tell me that his episodes are becoming more and more frequent. I am sure that I have heard about drugs that are supposed to help with this problem. I can't understand why he isn't being given them.
Okay, so what's the first thing that most people do in the morning? That's right...they take a piss...and then a shower. Now, imagine eight people who all have to take a piss and only one bathroom. Sounds like hell...right? Now, add in one obsessive-compulsive chick who gets up at 6am and takes seven different baths. Seriously! Penelope draws a bath, washes herself, drains the tub, and repeats...for a total of seven times. The end result of this obsession...
...the entire building has the permanent odor of piss. Thank you, Miss OCD!
John has taken to sleeping on the bench in the living room. Even though we worked out shifts so that everyone could sleep in a bed, he claims that he is only worthy of the bench. He's going through one of his depressive phases currently...I have to say, I hope he snaps out of it soon. He's so mopey it's starting to make me depressed too!
It got worse when Laura decided to start sleeping on the couch as well. She claims that it's to prevent anything from sneaking up on her. (Did I mention that she is not just a schizophrenic, but a paranoid schizophrenic?) She has even started sleeping with her eyes open, which is very, very creepy. Out of everyone here she is the one I am most worried will go nuts and kill someone!
Laura is not my only concern. I am also very worried about one of the guys trying to cook while I'm at work (they really suck at cooking) and coming home to a burned down hospital! Honestly, who lets mental patients use a stove? Where are the employees? I think this is some kind of government program. A real psychiatric hospital would not be set up like this!
Maylana died of starvation. I hadn't realized we were so low on food, plus I foolishly thought that food would be provided since we can't even leave the grounds to go to the grocery store. I was so wrong and poor Maylana paid for that mistake with her life.
I begged the Reaper to let her live. I tried to explain that it was my fault she had starved. I was the sanest one here and should have checked on the food situation. I even asked him to take me instead.
All of my cries fell on deaf ears. The cold, unyielding heart of Death would not give in to my pleas. Maylana was buried on the grounds. R.I.P.
I immediately began to rectify the food situation. I picked several bushels of fresh fruit from the orchards on the grounds...
...and spent many long hours catching fresh fish.
Some time later in the week I came home to another kitchen fire. As I was putting it out, Quinn tried to grab my ass! I grilled him about the incident and discovered that he had started the fire on purpose...just to have an excuse to get that close to me! I banned him from the kitchen.
After his banning, Quinn spent most of his time sitting on the couch complaining. He's getting worse and worse...he often spends hours moaning that the exercise bike is blocking his view of the tv. This is, as you can see, physically impossible. Unless the bike or tv has begun to defy the laws of physics there is no way that his view is being blocked!
Meredith has me worried as well. Every day she consumes 1/2 a diet shake, and that's it. She will eat nothing else for the entire day!
Then she spends hours and hours on the exercise bike. We have got to make her see that she is not fat! Once again, why is she here? Meredith needs to be in a hospital with doctors monitoring her regularly!
Ronan is very worried as well. Of course, he is worried about a lot of things. I think he is getting better though. We had a long talk the other day about family and babies and all kinds of stuff.
They make us wear the most hideous robes. Not all of the time, of course, but a lot of the time. Aren't they the most hideous things you have ever seen! ***You will forget that you saw Ronan and I kissing.***
I leave you with a mystery. This morning, John discovered an urn in the bathroom. I had the name of Meredith on it. I asked everyone, but none of us know anyone by that name.
We decided to bury the mysterious Meredith on the grounds next to Maylana. Perhaps sometime we will find out who she was.
(This was very weird. Nobody noticed when she died...no crying, no Reaper, no pop-up box from the game....and nobody remembers her. There are literally no memories of Meredith for anyone. Not just memories of her death, but memories of meeting her in the first place! Very strange!)