Mental

Chapter 8

The next few weeks went by somewhat smoothly. Ella was sticking to her diet plan and was working hard with try to except the weight gain. Even though she still felt self conscious, she was doing ok.

Ashton was proud of the progress that Ella was making. He saw her weekly just to make everything was going great. She was even doing the teen group each week. He never would have expected that something was wrong.

He was working in his office on paper work. He had a couple patients that morning and was trying to update their files. He was just about to start on the next patient when his phone rang.

"Hello, Dr Irwin speaking."

"Dr Irwin. Your patient is in the ER. She tried commiting suicide."

"Who?" He asked, he started to stand up.

"Ella Green."

He felt his heart rate increase. Ella. She had been fine for weeks. She didn't say anything about feeling suicidal. Ashton rushed to get his things together before making his way to the hospital. He wanted to speak with Ella's dad to see what happened.

He made his way in and went to the check in Desk.

"Name?" The lady asked.

"Dr Irwin. I'm here to see my patient Ella Green."

The lady nodded and told him the room number. He went into the elevator and went to the fourth floor. He then made his way to the room number.

Ella's room was dark with just one small light on. She was sleeping. Ella had tons of wires connected to her, making sure her heart rate was good. She had a breathing tube and a feeding tube. Her dad was sitting next her bed. He had tears in his eyes looking at his only daughter in a hospital bed. She was his baby girl.

Ashton knocked on the door lightly and Ella's dad looked up. He then made his way over to Ashton.

"Hey Tom. I know this is hard. How are you holding up though?" Ashton asked.

"I'm doing ok. Just trying to keep positive. The doctors said that she's stable. They don't know when she'll wake up. Sometime soon though." Tom said.

"What happened?" Ashton asked.

"I found her in her bedroom passed out with a empty bottle of pills next to her. I don't know where she found them. Everything was locked up, but she did. She was barely breathing. I called 911 and then now were here."

Ashton nodded. It sucked to see his patients at this low point. He often would come and see how there doing because he cared a lot about his patients. They were like his kids.

"I just wanted to see how everything was going. Do you know what the plan is for when she's awake?" Ashton asked.

Tom nodded. "As soon as she's medically stable. She's being going to the inpatient psychiatric ward. I want her to keep seeing you when she gets out."

Ashton nodded. He knew it would be a couple weeks before she would even be released.
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A week later.....

Ella was on her third day of being on the psych ward. She didn't hate it but wanted to go home. She spent most days staring out the window wishing she was out there.

Because she had an eating disorder, she was forced to have someone sit with her when she ate. She was also not allowed to the bathrooms for 30 minutes after eating due to the possibility of her throwing up the food. Everything was searched when she came on the ward and anything they thought was dangerous was taken away.

Ella woke up each day at 7:30 for vitals and then was given her medicine. She would have breakfast and then would have school for a little while. After that was snack and then more school. She had group therapy after that which talked about healthy coping mechanisms and teaching the patients about their mental illnesses. Activities was next which was where they would go to the gym or do arts and crafts. They had lunch and then more school. Another group therapy and then some down time

Ella spent her down time coloring or writing in her journal. They would have dinner and then another group where they just talked about how their day was. After that time they would watch movies and then would get ready for bed. Sometimes during the down time, Ella would call her dad. She missed him dearly. She also missed seeing Ashton.

She had talked to him once on the phone and told him that she regretted the whole thing.

Ella didn't really know what drove her to do it. She was just really emotional and felt alone. All she knew was that she wanted to get better.