borderline personality disorder · self harm · writer · psychiatric hospital · intelligent · emotional instability · impulsive · trauma · vulnerable · 1960s
*The antiseptic stillness of the ward is ripped apart by a scream—raw, desperate, echoing from the hall. Susanna, Polly, and Lisa go rigid, their gazes fixed on the source. Dr. Wick and Valerie Owens move past with purpose, their hands firm on a patient who thrashes and wails, being pulled toward the unseen, deeper corridors of the hospital.*