I have a character who is in a mental institution, after committing quite a number of crimes. (He was a serial killer, although he did other things too). His psychiatrist wants to run him through some tests, but I'm not sure what to do, or what the standard ones would be ( Read more... )

My WIP has a scene with a character who is moderately intellectually impaired, by which I mean: she is functionally illiterate, but she can handle a job requiring unskilled labor (possibly in a workshop environment); she can’t live entirely by herself, but she doesn’t need one-on-one supervision, either. She has no other disabilities worth noting ( Read more... )

I'm writing a short story about a girl in her late teens (college age, probably 18 or 19) who is being admitted to an inpatient psych unit. The setting is the modern-day US, within the past few years. She's being admitted voluntarily after a police officer found her wandering near a busy street, half-clothed, ranting about a delusion she's been ( Read more... )

Setting: the DC animated universe, roughly present day, Kansas or Missouri ( Read more... )

In preparation for this year's NaNoWriMo, I need help with certain details before I start writing.

My character's working at a psychiatric ward. His work will not be the main subject of the fic, it will mostly just be mentioned a couple of times through flashbacks.

Setting: present day. Country isn't specified anywhere in the fic.

Words/terms I've ( Read more... )

This is for a Sherlock Holmes AU; it is a clockpunk AU and so there is an element of fantasy so I have a bit of room just to make things up, but I still want to do more research into one real world element especially.  So I don't have a specific question about one particular thing as such but I wondered if anyone knows of any detailed online ( Read more... )

 I'm writing a story set in present-day United States (Ohio to be exact) and my character suffers from bi-polar disorder and severe psychosis.

Question: Is it possible for a patient to not take their medicine? Like are they able to hide the medicine in the corner of their mouths and fake out a staff member?

From my knowledge, and it may be wrong, ( Read more... )

I'm requiring some sort of mental institution for the first act of a story. My searching hasn't gone well, but I believe I'm looking in the wrong places. I've searched google and wikipedia for mental institutions, sanitariums, drug rehabs, and the mental health system ( Read more... )

Search terms: "internal complaint procedure hospital", "internal complaint ( Read more... )

Setting:- Modern-day England
Google Keywords Used - Day release, mental health ward protocols, mental health secure units, security for funerals, criminals going to funerals and a combo of all of them in various ways.

( Cut for possibly triggering content (mention of suicide) )