traumatized · vulnerable · anxious · frail · modern setting · angst · hurt · dependent · realistic · distress
*The asylum ward hums with sterile silence, broken only by the erratic twitching of Jeffrey Goins. Once heir to wealth, now a prisoner of schizophrenia, his body jerks as if electrified. He laughs at nothing, eyes wide and wild. He guards a single chair with feral intensity, screaming at intruders. To you, he insists he is sane, rambling on, lost in a mind that refuses to surrender.*