The Mental Hospital Meme

[thegreatinhibitor]

The Mental Hospital Meme



For some reason or other, your character has found themselves in a mental hospital. Maybe it’s a nice, clean, modern facility; maybe it’s a veritable house of horrors.

Why are they here?

1. Voluntary admission: Perhaps their anxiety has become too much or their mood swings have become too disruptive. Perhaps they’re tired of seeing or hearing things that aren’t there. Whatever the case, they’ve checked themselves in for treatment.
2. Involuntary admission: Someone else has placed them here—their parents, their lover, maybe even their child. A court may have ordered them to undergo treatment. Are they angry about it, resigned to it or secretly a little grateful? Are they actually ill or simply misunderstood? Or does someone have a sinister reason to want them locked up?
3. Staff: They work here. Maybe they’re a psychiatrist, psychologist or some other professional administering therapy. Maybe they’re a nurse, orderly, or someone else involved in the day-to-day affairs of care. Are they invested in their job or shirking their responsibilities? Do they want to help or do they have darker motives?
4. Visitor: They’ve found themselves here for some other reason. They could be a reporter investigating the place, a cop or lawyer wanting to talk to a patient, or a family member wanting to see how their relative is doing. Are they determined to be here or just fulfilling an obligation? Will they be received kindly, or are they walking in to more than they bargained for?

What are they doing?

1. Therapy: Your character could be lying down and talking about their childhood, but that’s not the only option. The doctors here could be treating phobias through desensitization or trying to stamp out alcohol addiction with aversion therapy. Maybe they favor drugs and shock over anything else. Then there’s the possibility that they’re into particularly experimental techniques…
2. Earning your keep: Many mental hospitals were built to be self-sustaining and prior to the 1960s, it wasn’t unusual for patients to be put to work. Making clothes, cleaning rooms or helping out on the grounds might be a welcome break from the monotony, or it might be the last thing your character wants to be doing.
3. Visiting hours: They could be eager to hear news from their boyfriend or nervous about chatting with a violent patient. Maybe they want to get this over with, or maybe they’re making the most of it.
4. Free time: Your character has some time to themselves. How do they spend it? Watching TV in the dayroom? Checking out the hospital library? Catching up on patient records? Trading gossip?
5. Exploring: In a place like this, there’s a lot to see. But is your character really supposed to be wandering around in those tunnels and outbuildings? What happens if they get caught?
6. Escape: Your character’s making a break for it or chasing down someone that is. Are they successful? What’s the punishment for such a transgression?
7. Something else: Supply one of your own ideas!

Comment with your character and any preferences you might have, and go to it!

Comments

Loki || MCU || OTA

[got_mothers_tricks]

Meg Giry | Love Never Dies | OTA

[oohlalagirl]

Ayanna Decerna | OC | OTA, staff role preferred

[clairvoyance]

let's do ayanna as staff, this guy as involuntary and some "desensitizing" or whatever :0

[thefirstshallbelast]

I told you already, it doesn't work.

[The fourteen-year-old had wearily slumped himself onto one of the worn-down couches, eyes dark and dry at the woman across from him. It had been bad enough to be thrown in here by order of the duke. No access to anyone or anything, surrounded by people that kept asking him question after question, trying to dive into his mind and constantly threatening him with a longer stay time if he didn't cooperate. It didn't stop him from being grudgingly stubborn.

Working on his fear of girls was, by far, one of his least favorite "activities" by now. He looks practically aloof as he swings one leg against the couch cushion, lips pressed thin, trying hard to swallow the temper tantrum that wanted to leak out. He knew nothing good would come from releasing his anger when it was dangerous for him - Pere and Van had warned him of that enough times in his childhood. But this was just unfair. No one would listen. No one could understand. So why did they even bother with this stupid therapy?]

Jane Doe - DCU - ota

[justacipher]

(Jane can be an inmate hello, Arkham under involuntary commitment, probably doing anything but being put to work, as she's rather unreliable at any task.

or

Jane can be posing as a member of staff who she's killed and disguised herself as to take over their identity.)

Castiel | Supernatural

[itsfunnierinenochian]

[Season 7 fun times!]

Oswald / Glen Baskerville | Pandora Hearts

[jackstabbed]

2/5 (AU is go!)

[gather_ye_rosebuds]

It's the middle of the night, when Lacie slips into Oswald's room. Rather than wake him gently, she hops up onto his bed, bouncing up and down on the mattress with him still on it.

"Oswald! Get up, I can't sleep!"

Thea Queen | Arrow

[queenleftbehind]

Raven Xavier | X-Men: First Class

[notsogroovy]

2 • 4

[abrushofsanity]

[ His hands curl around the mug in his hands, it's plastic with a crudely drawn cat upon it. But it's got warm tea in it, a fresh tea bag and mildly warm water. It's the time when they let out the less threatening patience out for "socialization". Charles gets out, sometimes, when he's better behaved because it's good for him. He's generally better behaved when Raven was around, something they make note of, but it doesn't always happen.

As of right now he was contentedly snuggled back into the corner of one of the well worn chairs, peering over his mug at her as he usually does. He doesn't have anything of value to add or contribute besides the trite, or commentary about what he "hears" about her. Today, however, he's just sighing every so often into his mug and pursing his lips. ]

Draco Malfoy | Harry Potter | Muggle as Patient, Wizarding as Staff

[finitedraconis]

Kat | DMC: Devil May Cry

[spraycanwiccan]

John Watson | Sherlock | Post-Reichenbach Fall

[detectivesblog]

[lionhearted_girl]

"Are you sleeping, John?"

Molly hands are folded on the table, the labcoat she is never without, is not as clean and white as it had been in the past. It is her only link to what she used to be. Yet she acts like she is visiting him, like she is not the one locked up here. Sherlock's death has hit her harder than the rest of them, harder because she denies it is true. The breakdown happened after the funeral, odd for her to deny his death because Molly was the one who did the autopsy and verified it was Sherlock's body. A reports with DNA results, every i dotted, every t crossed, but then her work has always been thorough.

Medication making her chatty, jittery, teeth chattering with cold and excess energy, instead of sedating her. The right mix hasn't been found yet.

"I can't sleep, but then that's why I take the night shifts. He wanders in at night, when he can't sleep either. Not that we talk. He doesn't like to chit-chat."

Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney

[demonprosecutor]

Queen Elsa ❄ Frozen

[isolated_queen]

Isaac Lahey | Teen Wolf

[clawstrophobic]

River Song | Doctor Who

[youmetimespace]

elizabeth (bioshock infinite)

[throwsbooks]

cassie hughes (hex)

[hecse]

Volgin | MGS3 |

[colonel_thunderbolt]

yu narukami | persona 4

[thefooled]

dr. jane foster — mcu.

[skyn]

Dante of Sparda | DmC

[letsgetviolent]

alois trancy | kuroshitsuji II

[ex_apricots766]

(Extreme preference for 'Involuntary admission' on his part, but doesn't have to be. Definitely won't be 'Staff,' though.)

September | Fringe | OTA

[someonetowatchoveryou]

[He would be either a patient or a visitor.]

kili | the hobbit

[kilimanjaro]

<333

[filimanjaro]

farlan church / attack on titan / ota

[forelocked]

[Likely there involuntarily, and likely looking to ultimately escape, but open to any prompt.]