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I didn't put 'history' there so it could be ignored.
Also, I stated in the description that all patients were scrubs. Yes, all of them. Why? Sanitation reasons. This is a hospital, not a fashion show.
Also, I stated in the description that all patients were scrubs. Yes, all of them. Why? Sanitation reasons. This is a hospital, not a fashion show.
I think you should probably read the RP before you make a character :/
Not acceptable, sorry.
Name: Dylan Moore
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Position: Patient
Diagnosis: Catatonic schizophrenia
Personality: Dylan's not a bad kid; he's just a little eccentric. He's become something of a social butterfly since coming to the hospital. He'll happily talk at you about nothing for hours. He's goofy, a little nonsensical, but tries his best to be a good person. He's supposed to be on his medication, but rarely actually takes it. The struggle to get him to swallow his pills has become an increasingly long, tedious, and often fruitless task. When on the meds, he can pass as a regular guy. He does normal things, like shower, eat, watch TV, ect. When off the meds, he's a much more colorful character. Dylan often suffers delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations, paranoia, and even violent episodes should his hallucinations make him feel threatened. He bares the classic symptoms of schizophrenia: he piles layers upon layers of clothes on his body, shows little interest in hygiene (thankfully, his nurses make sure he washes regularly), he's forgetful, creates sudden, inappropriate emotional outbursts, and exhibits jumbled language.
Other: Dylan suffers from a subtype of schizophrenia called catatonic schizophrenia. This type of schizophrenia is characterized by extremes of behavior. At one end of the extreme the patient cannot speak, move or respond - there is a dramatic reduction in activity where virtually all movement stops, as in a catatonic stupor.
At the other end of the extreme they are overexcited or hyperactive, sometimes mimicking sounds or movements around them - often referred to as catatonic excitement.
Dylan may be walking around, doing nothing out of the ordinary when an episode occurs. He will freeze, his muscles tense, in whatever position he was in last. When in a stupor, he will resist movement; if he is re-positioned, he will retake the position he was in before disturbed. Sometimes his body is so rigid, he can't be moved at all. Other times, he will repeat the same movement over and over again, like a broken record, until the episode is over. The episodes can last hours, days, even weeks. Medical intervention is sometimes necessary. There is a wide array of other strangeness that I can't be bothered to describe.
He has a huge big dorky crush on one of the nurses. When Dylan was still rather new, he'd purpose cause a scene until they gave up and called her in. He's gotten better about it.
Due to his paranoia, Dylan refuses to eat anything that isn't prepackaged and opened by HIM. He's afraid someone's poisoned it otherwise.
Appearance: He's a tall and lanky guy, standing at 6'3" and weighing around 163 pounds. His curly brown hair is always messy, hanging in his his brown eyes. He often has heavy bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. He dresses in a rather sloppy fashion, his scrubs always wrinkled, and doesn't seem to care much about how he appears to others. He's not particularly gorgeous, but he's not really ugly either. With some work, he could be decent.
History:
Dylan was raised by a single father, the word 'raised' used very loosely. His father never had much time for his son, and by the time he was 9 or 10, his father hardly came home at all. Dylan didn't go to school, he didn't grocery shop, and he certainly didn't take care of the house. He survived by sneaking into his neighbor's house and stealing food right from their kitchen. Having never really been taught right from wrong, he saw nothing wrong with this. It was a miracle that he could even do simple things, like carry on a conversation.
Around the age of 10, he began showing signs of schizophrenia, but no one was around to catch it. He proceeded as if the voices he heard and things he saw were perfectly normal. This continued until he was 19, when someone saw him lifting the neighbor's sliding glass door off the track to sneak in their kitchen. The police were called and jig was up. His father was tracked down and arrested for neglect, and Dylan was taken into custody. The house he had been living in was a total wreck: garbage on the floor, broken glass in the windows, writing on the wall, and vermin crawling everywhere.
The neighbors decided not to press charges, seeing how pitiful the guy was. He was sent off to the hospital to get treated, and has been there since. He's made a lot of progress since them. He's gone from a barely socialized, introverted, and aggressive person to the halfway decent patient he is today.
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Position: Patient
Diagnosis: Catatonic schizophrenia
Personality: Dylan's not a bad kid; he's just a little eccentric. He's become something of a social butterfly since coming to the hospital. He'll happily talk at you about nothing for hours. He's goofy, a little nonsensical, but tries his best to be a good person. He's supposed to be on his medication, but rarely actually takes it. The struggle to get him to swallow his pills has become an increasingly long, tedious, and often fruitless task. When on the meds, he can pass as a regular guy. He does normal things, like shower, eat, watch TV, ect. When off the meds, he's a much more colorful character. Dylan often suffers delusions, visual and auditory hallucinations, paranoia, and even violent episodes should his hallucinations make him feel threatened. He bares the classic symptoms of schizophrenia: he piles layers upon layers of clothes on his body, shows little interest in hygiene (thankfully, his nurses make sure he washes regularly), he's forgetful, creates sudden, inappropriate emotional outbursts, and exhibits jumbled language.
Other: Dylan suffers from a subtype of schizophrenia called catatonic schizophrenia. This type of schizophrenia is characterized by extremes of behavior. At one end of the extreme the patient cannot speak, move or respond - there is a dramatic reduction in activity where virtually all movement stops, as in a catatonic stupor.
At the other end of the extreme they are overexcited or hyperactive, sometimes mimicking sounds or movements around them - often referred to as catatonic excitement.
Dylan may be walking around, doing nothing out of the ordinary when an episode occurs. He will freeze, his muscles tense, in whatever position he was in last. When in a stupor, he will resist movement; if he is re-positioned, he will retake the position he was in before disturbed. Sometimes his body is so rigid, he can't be moved at all. Other times, he will repeat the same movement over and over again, like a broken record, until the episode is over. The episodes can last hours, days, even weeks. Medical intervention is sometimes necessary. There is a wide array of other strangeness that I can't be bothered to describe.
He has a huge big dorky crush on one of the nurses. When Dylan was still rather new, he'd purpose cause a scene until they gave up and called her in. He's gotten better about it.
Due to his paranoia, Dylan refuses to eat anything that isn't prepackaged and opened by HIM. He's afraid someone's poisoned it otherwise.
Appearance: He's a tall and lanky guy, standing at 6'3" and weighing around 163 pounds. His curly brown hair is always messy, hanging in his his brown eyes. He often has heavy bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. He dresses in a rather sloppy fashion, his scrubs always wrinkled, and doesn't seem to care much about how he appears to others. He's not particularly gorgeous, but he's not really ugly either. With some work, he could be decent.
History:
Dylan was raised by a single father, the word 'raised' used very loosely. His father never had much time for his son, and by the time he was 9 or 10, his father hardly came home at all. Dylan didn't go to school, he didn't grocery shop, and he certainly didn't take care of the house. He survived by sneaking into his neighbor's house and stealing food right from their kitchen. Having never really been taught right from wrong, he saw nothing wrong with this. It was a miracle that he could even do simple things, like carry on a conversation.
Around the age of 10, he began showing signs of schizophrenia, but no one was around to catch it. He proceeded as if the voices he heard and things he saw were perfectly normal. This continued until he was 19, when someone saw him lifting the neighbor's sliding glass door off the track to sneak in their kitchen. The police were called and jig was up. His father was tracked down and arrested for neglect, and Dylan was taken into custody. The house he had been living in was a total wreck: garbage on the floor, broken glass in the windows, writing on the wall, and vermin crawling everywhere.
The neighbors decided not to press charges, seeing how pitiful the guy was. He was sent off to the hospital to get treated, and has been there since. He's made a lot of progress since them. He's gone from a barely socialized, introverted, and aggressive person to the halfway decent patient he is today.
Here it is:
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/1528/posts/ooc
http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/1528/posts/ooc
The word 'asylum' has been taken and twisted by society to mean something bad. It's a place where the unwanted, deranged, and violent people go to live out their miserable existence. It's a bad place; a scary place. But this isn't what asylum means. Asylum means haven, refuge, hideaway. It's a place were one goes when nowhere else will take them. It's a shelter from the storm, a friendly smile here and there, and a bed to sleep in.
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
=============================================
In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
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In each hospital, there's a social foodchain. Each link is very important, despite what they may think. You can play any of these people.
Doctors
You went to medical school 10 years for this shit; of course you're at the top. In most cases, what you say goes.
Nurses/techs
The heart and soul of the hospital. You deal with the patients more than anyone; you put up with their crap, you grow attached, and you sometimes you just can't wait until your shift is over. It's your duty to ensure that each patient is treated with dignity, comfort, and safety. They may not be all there in the head, but they're still human beings.
Part of your job is ensuring that the patients are kept clean and hygienic (especially the schizophrenics who would let themselves go to hell otherwise). You may be a go-for to get them food, drinks, blankets, ect. You will have to escort them around the hospital to ensure they don't cause trouble. Most of the time, you'll be assigned a handful patients specifically.
Interns
You're still learning, you are often paid only in experience, and when a patient shits themselves, guess who gets to clean it up. You.
Secretaries/janitors/other staff
Who gives a shit, honestly.
Student shadows
You follow the nurses/techs around, watching but not doing. Most are highschool students who are there for a psychology class. The hospital sees you two different ways:
1: A chance to teach the youth
2: An insurance liability
Patients
Patients could go at the top OR the bottom, it all depends on how you choose to treat them. The days of forcing treatment on unwilling, mentally ill people are slowly coming to an end. But at the same time, sometimes you have to do what you have to do to. A normal patient in a regular hospital has the right to refuse any procedure, even if it could save their life. A mental patient, however, may not realize the importance of what you're trying to do. They're scared, confused, and sometimes it's just easier to drug them up.
Most of the patients wear scrubs, just because they're easy to clean and comfortable.
==================================
Codes:
Code blue: Patient is in cardiac arrest
Code black: Bomb threat
Code walker: A patient has wandered off/ is missing
"Paging Dr. Armstrong": A combative patient/person. Nurses need backup.
Code White: Evacuation for whatever reason.
Code red: Fire
Code brown: Internal disaster. Be is a dangerous spill, the roof falling, whatever.
"Paging Dr. Pain": A patient has hurt themselves.
==========================================
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Position: (doc, nurse, patient, ect)
Diagnosis: (if patient)
Personality:
Other:
Appearance:
History:
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
=============================================
In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
======================================================
In each hospital, there's a social foodchain. Each link is very important, despite what they may think. You can play any of these people.
Doctors
You went to medical school 10 years for this shit; of course you're at the top. In most cases, what you say goes.
Nurses/techs
The heart and soul of the hospital. You deal with the patients more than anyone; you put up with their crap, you grow attached, and you sometimes you just can't wait until your shift is over. It's your duty to ensure that each patient is treated with dignity, comfort, and safety. They may not be all there in the head, but they're still human beings.
Part of your job is ensuring that the patients are kept clean and hygienic (especially the schizophrenics who would let themselves go to hell otherwise). You may be a go-for to get them food, drinks, blankets, ect. You will have to escort them around the hospital to ensure they don't cause trouble. Most of the time, you'll be assigned a handful patients specifically.
Interns
You're still learning, you are often paid only in experience, and when a patient shits themselves, guess who gets to clean it up. You.
Secretaries/janitors/other staff
Who gives a shit, honestly.
Student shadows
You follow the nurses/techs around, watching but not doing. Most are highschool students who are there for a psychology class. The hospital sees you two different ways:
1: A chance to teach the youth
2: An insurance liability
Patients
Patients could go at the top OR the bottom, it all depends on how you choose to treat them. The days of forcing treatment on unwilling, mentally ill people are slowly coming to an end. But at the same time, sometimes you have to do what you have to do to. A normal patient in a regular hospital has the right to refuse any procedure, even if it could save their life. A mental patient, however, may not realize the importance of what you're trying to do. They're scared, confused, and sometimes it's just easier to drug them up.
Most of the patients wear scrubs, just because they're easy to clean and comfortable.
==================================
Codes:
Code blue: Patient is in cardiac arrest
Code black: Bomb threat
Code walker: A patient has wandered off/ is missing
"Paging Dr. Armstrong": A combative patient/person. Nurses need backup.
Code White: Evacuation for whatever reason.
Code red: Fire
Code brown: Internal disaster. Be is a dangerous spill, the roof falling, whatever.
"Paging Dr. Pain": A patient has hurt themselves.
==========================================
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Position: (doc, nurse, patient, ect)
Diagnosis: (if patient)
Personality:
Other:
Appearance:
History:
Holy shit that was fast.
The word 'asylum' has been taken and twisted by society to mean something bad. It's a place where the unwanted, deranged, and violent people go to live out their miserable existence. It's a bad place; a scary place. But this isn't what asylum means. Asylum means haven, refuge, hideaway. It's a place were one goes when nowhere else will take them. It's a shelter from the storm, a friendly smile here and there, and a bed to sleep in.
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
=============================================
In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
=============================================
In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
Let's do it in PM again.
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