Treatments & Side-Effects
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Everybody at Edelweiss receives psychotherapy, which is the therapies to which your characters are brought to the staff offices and have those nice "talks" with the doctors, and most patients receive medication that brings side-effects. But there are more treatments than just those, and here, you have a list to explain those briefly, and see which groups of patients usually (but not exclusively) receive them.
Some of these treatments (such as therapeutic exposure or electroshock therapy) occur usually during therapy, but can be given outside of it, too, should it be seen necessary. Others, autogenic training in this case, will be ordered by the doctors and it will be controlled whether or not your character follows his schedule. Others again, such as art therapy or exercise therapy, are independent from therapy altogether. This means attending arts and crafts or exercise courses led by the nurses in the respective areas, on a daily basis. Nurses: Feel free to take over these treatments for a day, and log them with the patients, if you want. If nobody does, the patients can assume an NPC nurse led the course for the day, if they want to comment on them.
As for Community Service, this means your character is on cleaning staff for the moment. Scrubbing the floors of the cell halls, cleaning the showers, picking up trash in the corridors, cleaning up puddles of blood... that is all your new fun task, dear patients, but it can also be an opportunity to have a few moments without observation.
Note: "Isolation" and "Restraining" are both not listed here, as they aren't exactly treatments. This just means that your character is, either due to psychological or physical circumstances, or due to past behaviour, a potential subject to being isolated in the control room OR to be restrained with straight-jackets and possibly chains, at slight signs of troublesome behaviour. Security? Please pay attention to this and follow through with it.
ART THERAPY
Treatment in the studio, led by nurses.
Treated: All.
AUTOGENIC TRAINING
Ordered and controlled, on a daily basis.
Treated: Psychosomatic Disorders.
AVERSION THERAPY
During therapy.
Treated: Addiction, Conditioning.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Switched every app weeks, cleaning of the cell halls, corridors, showers.
Treated: All, particularly aggression-related diagnoses.
DANCE THERAPY
Treatment in the pool area, led by nurses.
Treated: Autism, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Deafness, Blindness, Elderly, Eating Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Parkinson's Disease.
ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY
Treatment in the electrotherapy room, during therapies or additionally.
Treated: Mania, Bipolar Disorder, Catatonia, Schizophrenia, Major Depression, Schizoaffective Disorder, Schizophreniform Disorder, Personality Disorders.
EXERCISE THERAPY
Treatment in the pool area, led by nurses.
Treated: Depression.
MUSIC THERAPY
Treatment in the studio, led by nurses.
Treated: Learning Disabilities, Agitation, Dementia, Schizophrenia.
PAIN TREATMENT
Treatment in the pain room, during therapies or additionally. Involves both treatment against pain and experimentation about how to stop pain/the sources and intensity of pain.
Treated: Pain-related problems, illness or injury.
THERAPEUTIC EXPOSURE
During therapy.
Treated: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Panic Disorders, Phobias.
WRITING THERAPY
Treatment in the studio, led by nurses.
Treated: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Cancer, Asthma, Depression, Arthritis.
Side Effects (Medication)
And here, for your convenience, a list of the possible side-effects your characters can experience thanks to the medication they receive in their food. Before you ask, no; nobody, not even staff, knows what they give you. Your own side-effects are listed in the dossier, but if you have particular wishes in addition to that for the sake of plot or the possibility to play this out, comment here. Remember: How strongly you play out your side-effects is up to you. All of them can be looked up at Wikipedia, therefore not bothering with links here.
- Aboulia (mild)
- Absence seizure
- Addiction to substance
- Akathisia
- Alexithymia (mild)
- Allodynia
- Alopecia
- Amaurosis fugax
- Ambivalence
- Amenorrhoea
- Anaemia
- Angor animi
- Anorexia
- Anosodiaphoria
- Anosognosia
- Anxiety
- Ascites (mild)
- Asthenia
- Ataxia
- Athymhormia
- Atonic seizure
- Aura
- Autophony
- B symptoms
- Bleeding: Uterine
- Bleeding: Intestines
- Brachioradial pruritis
- Cachexia (mild/medium)
- Cardiac asthma
- Cataplexy (mild)
- Closed-eye hallucinations
- Cognitive dysfunction (mild)
- Collapse
- Complex partial seizure
- Confabulation (mild)
- Cough
- Dehydration
- Delusions (mild)
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Diplopia (temporary)
- Directed attention fatigue
- Dizziness
- Drop attack
- Drowsiness
- Dysesthesia
- Dysmetria
- Dysphagia
- Dyspnea
- Epistaxis
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Fever of unknown origin
- Fixed fantasy
- Flu-like syndrome
- Formication
- Gelastic seizure
- Haemolacria
- Hallucinations
- Headache
- Heartburn
- Heautoscopy
- Haematemesis
- Hyperactivity
- Hyperalgesia
- Hyperesthesia
- Hyperreflexia
- Hypertension
- Hyperventilation
- Hypervigilance
- Hypoesthesia
- Hypotension
- Hypoventilation
- Ideas of reference
- Insomnia
- Intermittent claudication
- Intrusive thoughts
- Irritability
- Joint locking
- Lactic acidosis
- Light-headedness
- Low frustration tolerance
- Metabolic acidosis
- Metabolic alkalosis
- Neuralgia
- Oculogyric crisis
- Oropharyngeal dysphagia
- Orthopnea
- Oscillopsia
- Pain: Back
- Pain: Chest
- Pain: Low back
- Palpitation
- Paresthesia
- Pel-Ebstein fever
- Platypnea
- Polydipsia
- Psychomotor agitation
- Racing thoughts
- Rash
- Rigor
- Seizures
- Self-hatred
- Suicidal tendencies
- Syncope
- Tachypnea
- Tardive dyskinesia
- Tendinosis
- Thrombosis
- Tremor
- Tullio phenomenon
- Vasovagal episode
- Vertigo
- Vomiting
- Weight gain
- Weight loss
- Xerostomia