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  • Common Treatments

    Treatment, treatment… A common word around here, one that grows distasteful the more it's heard. The thing about pioneering in the medical field, there are little guidelines, especially during this time period. Everything is trial, and error, and trial and make note. It’s called practicing medicine, for a reason.

    Under the guise of experimenting with mental health, it’s truly terribly easy to get away with ungodly things, as there usually aren't any physical repercussions that can be charted and no one else knows better anyways. Sure, the man may be drooling after his frontal lobe was tickled with a metal pick, but he was drooling before that too. People brought to this place to be forgotten by the outside world, make the best lab rats. We cannot break what is already broken, right?

    A Few of the Most Common Treatments Include:
    Castration
    The removal of the testicles of a male.

    Electroshock Therapy
    Treatment in which seizures are electrically induced in patients to provide relief from mental disorders - typically given two or three times per week until the patient is no longer suffering symptoms. Causes confusion and memory loss.

    Hydrotherapy
    Exposing patients to baths or showers of warm water for an extended period of time often had a calming effect on them.

    Insulin Shock Therapy
    Insulin shock therapy injected high levels of insulin into patients to cause convulsions and a coma. After several hours, the living dead would be revived from the coma, and thought cured of their madness. Causes terrible amnesia.

    Lobotomy
    A procedure in which the brain's frontal lobe nerves are severed by inserting tools through the eye socket. Lobotomies don’t just stop bad behaviors. They damaged people’s memories and personalities.

    LSD Dosing
    A patient is given a dose of the potent hallucinogenic drug to induce an altered sense of mind.

    Metrazol Therapy
    In metrazol therapy, physicians induced seizures using a stimulant medication. Seizures began roughly a minute after the patient received the injection and could result in fractured bones, torn muscles and other adverse effects. The therapy was usually administered several times a week. Metrazol was withdrawn from use by the FDA in 1982. While this treatment was dangerous and ineffective, seizure therapy was the precursor to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

    Psychotherapy
    The treatment of mental disorder by psychological rather than medical means.

    Pyrotherapy
    (Artificial Fever) is a method of treatment by raising the body temperature or sustaining an elevated body temperature.

    Rotational Therapy
    Rotating patients' bodies in a specially designed chair. It is reported of patients reaching a tranquil state after the procedure, miraculous cures for patients with hysteria, as well as the beneficial induction of sleep in mania of recent onset.

    Sedation
    The administering of a sedative drug to produce a state of calm or sleep.

    Straight-Jacket
    A strong garment with long sleeves which can be tied together to confine the arms of a violent prisoner or mental patient.

    Thorazine
    The first psychotropic drug, making it possible to calm unruly behavior, anxiety, agitation, and confusion. Thorazine (chlorpromazine) is a phenothiazine anti-psychotic medication used to treat psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia or manic-depression, and severe behavioral problems in children. Thorazine is also used to treat nausea and vomiting, anxiety before surgery, chronic hiccups, acute intermittent porphyria, and symptoms of tetanus. Common side effects of Thorazine (chlorpromazine) include:

    dizziness
    drowsiness
    anxiety
    sleep problems (insomnia)
    breast swelling or discharge
    changes in menstrual periods
    weight gain
    swelling in hands or feet
    dry mouth
    stuffy nose
    blurred vision
    constipation

    Trepanation
    The oldest known neurosurgical procedure, trepanation is the process by which a hole is drilled into the skull and a piece of bone removed, thereby exposing the intracranial contents.


    The mind is a tricky thing. An ever so sticky, and delicate, web.

  • Common Practices

    Besides the official treatments of the patients, there are a handful of Common Practices that patients are subject to. Including, but not limited to:
    Room Searches
    At least twice a week, patients are lined up in the hallways outside their rooms while guards go inside and shuffle through their papers and books, drawers, pillows, mattresses, sheets and clothing to check for any contraband.

    Strip Searches
    Mostly reserved for new arrival patients, but can be demanded of suspicious patients. A patient will be stripped of all clothing, then every crack and crevice will be examined.

    Delousing
    Due to the hygiene issues, sometimes lice becomes a problem. In which case, afflicted patients would have their scalps scrubbed with a burning chemical concoction, or shaved completely.

    Caning
    Beat with a cane as a punishment.

    Members of the Staff must be extra vigilant, and not let their guards down at any time when inside the building. Patients can be unpredictable and manipulative. Staff must look out for Patients stashing items, having "accidents" outside of the bathroom, masturbating, having sexual interactions, fighting or getting aggressive, self harming and a multitude of other actions.

    Violence is common, both among the Patient population, and between Staff and Patients. Sexual Violence is also frequent, whether it be Staff to Patient, Patient to Staff, or Patient to Patient.

    Pregnancies aren't unusual, the medical team is highly experienced in secretive abortions - under the nose of the Catholic administration. If pregnancy is carried out, as it is in some cases, the medical team is prepared for childbirth or cesarean section, in which case the child goes immediately into the care of the Massachusetts Orphanage. There is punishment for being caught having intercourse.

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  • Common Occurrences

    The Doors
    The doors will open, or close. It could be a heavy duty patient ward door, with its thick material and sturdy locks, or it could be a flimsy closet room door. It doesn’t matter that you swear you just heard the deadbolt clack loudly into place, the next sound could very well be the echoing creak of it swinging open on its squeaky hinges. Naturally, there is never any explanation.

    Mysterious Bruising
    Finding strange bruises and scabs whose causes cannot be remembered is common, in both the patient population and the staff.

    Pneumonia
    An infection of the lungs by invading bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Most of the time, pneumonia is spread through inhaling droplet particles that have the infecting organism. A terrible chore in the winter months.

    Missing Patients
    You see the same faces among the crowd day in, day out. Sometimes, some faces stop appearing. Were they ever really there in the first place?

    Rape
    This place is full of empty hallways, closet doors left ajar, dark corners and blind spots. No one is truly safe, from anyone.

    Noises
    Moulsford is rarely ever hushed but, when the usual sounds of laughter, cries and screams die to a mumble, the other noises tune in. Whispers, from the drainage hole in the corner of the floor. Was that your name being called? Growling, from under the thin bed frame. Tapping, from outside the barred window. Singing, from the other side of the wall, but aren’t you the last room in this hall?