Inpatient Stories

"People are a lot like dinosaurs, they tear apart one another one minute, and then, they walk it off as if nothing happened the next. People, much like dinosaurs, are unpredictable, as all life seems to be. Unpre-freakin-dictable." Dinosaur-obsessed, 17-year-old Remy Doulin, AKA Red, truly is a wild-card. One minute he's peaceful, but the next, he is spreading anarchy, much like how the Spinosaurus lived. The truth of the matter, however, is that Red is small, unlike the great dinosaur he so desires to live like. He's small, sensitive, and he's "missing something..." But what is he missing? -

Devin Marr's never going to have a home again... His dad's in jail. His mom is dead. He has no siblings or family in the country, and his life is turning upside-down. Then, he meets someone who teaches him that it's okay to mourn, that it's okay to be "fucked up." Taken under his wing, Devin learns that family is not only the people we are related to, but the people we value and those who care. Predecessor of "Spinosaurus Red," "Mangled & Blue" is a story about friendship, caring for those who have gone through trauma, and justice.

Hollis is committed to the shadowed halls of the Marrowbend Institute. But he quickly realizes it's more than just a cage. The Boonies, a cult of Cora Boone's followers, operate within the walls of the teenage asylum. Ready and willing to perform tasks set before them by Cora herself, even if it means great personal harm. Her three-year confinement left a dark legacy within these walls, forcing Hollis to confront a version of her he never knew existed, and allowing him to see the power she truly holds over others. He must form alliances with other patients to survive, while combating new and dangerous rivalries. On the outside, Cora's relentless pursuit to expose the police cover-up regarding her parents' deaths has earned her a formidable new enemy in Officer Bradwell. With the law weaponized against her, Cora fights to make the truth known before the town buries her along with its secrets. Unfortunately for Cora, the law and the Headmaster of Marrowbend, Abel Trenner, push back, threatening to make Hollis disappear forever.

Proximity to your home or loved one's residence can ease visitation and provide a sense of closeness during this sensitive period. Houston's sprawling size means choosing a centrally located facility might be more convenient for families across the metropolitan area.

Tw for suicide and self harm

When Ellen leaves her old life to middle school, she realizes she isn't really who she thought she was. When finding new enemies, loosing old friends, and meeting new people she starts to question her personality. But he was always there to cheer her up. ~if your liking the book Clarissa Kemp this takes place before that. It's about Ellen~

Small trigger Warning. Slow story.

Alex is 15 years old, with severe depression and anxiety. Kim is 16, with bipolar disorder and severe depression. They found each other in a mental hospital, but neither of them seen this coming. No one knows how to help them now, what will they choose to do?

"Because i could not stop for death..."

No offense, but the mind is a swirling circus of events that has nothing to do with the present moment, and I'm addicted to my phone. I think there's something inherently offensive about writing a book before you're 30, but I'm 28, and I've saved money all my life by giving the gift of gab. So, I've written a book I can only imagine I'll look back in hindsight on as annoying. As an adult with a psychiatric file thick enough to be considered literature, I've navigated everything from inpatient hospitalization to outpatient therapy, from self-harm and eating disorders to personality and mood disorders. I have been studied, treated, labeled, and relabeled. And yet, the simplest truth remains: I've never quite fit in. This is a memoir of sorts. Not because I believe my life is important-it isn't-but because I have an unfortunate tendency to overshare and a compulsive need to make sense of things out loud before they disappear from my brain entirely. If you've ever felt like a ghost in your own life, a whisper between the lines, an unreliable narrator to your own unraveling-perhaps you'll find a flicker of yourself in these pages. A thread to tug, a warped mirror to peer into, or simply proof that the chaos isn't yours alone.

Mourning mental illness throughout an inpatient hospital admission.

The life of a suicidal teenager inside the walls of a hospital

After finding himself almost passed out with his head in a toilet bowl; he knew he needed help. Gavin finds himself in an eating disorder unit after his artistic director gave him a bit of an ultimatum. He meets folks, and he finds a new hope for himself in the unit, but it requires so much to remain hopeful.

"they didn't want us around until we're normal, don't you get it? we got sent here because they're ashamed." "of what? your small genitalia?" i shrugged, taking a bite out of my ice cream cone. he looked at me. "what? this is how i cope. let me be." i spat. • • • • • • • lowercase intended.

But despite all the time I spent regretting not having succeeded with killing myself, I have never felt alive so much as during those nights and sometimes it even hurt. It hurt watching the clock across the room- how it wouldn't stop ticking. I begged it with my tired eyes to just stop so that time would freeze and I could breathe this feeling of existence until my lungs suffocated in it. But the clock never stopped, and it hurt. That's how we lived- the 10 of us: laughing through the nights, hoping the sun would explode or something just so we wouldn't have to wake to another day, having our vitals checked only to see that we were still very much alive, and on that note of disappointment, our cycle would start over once again.