Ward D - Frieda McFadden #2 (spoiler)
After Chapter 15
Just finished chapter 15. I think this is where it's all going to start? I think it was weird when Amy and Jade met again. A bit flat? It seemed like she overreacted it a ton. She was talking to someone locked in a psych ward and seemed like she wasn't quite mature about it.
And I'm not convinced that the sickening thud she's heard has really happened.
I think there will be something more to Will. I think his symptoms started way earlier than he admits and he might have killed someone that he is trying to conceal by lying about when the voices started talking to him.
As for Spider-Dan, I don't know what he heard or what he can sense but as a patient he isn't the most reliable source of information.
However it occurred to me more than once before... what if people with mental illnesses aren't ill? What if they see things more clearly. Or what if these voices are proof of the existence of the paranormal..
Obviously, this sounds ignorant of me and I'm sorry. I don't mean to dismiss the existence of mental illnesses. But as we see it, the definition of what a mental illness can change over time. A lot of things that aren't considered mental illness, was categorized a mental illness a few decades ago. And recognizing this can lead us to see a pattern that might result that in the future schizophrenia might be more than just a mental illness?
I think Amy will be taken aback after hearing that Spider-Dan saying Sawyer wants to kill them. I think she really shouldn't be around patients with mental illnesses.
When I say she that, I don't judge the patients - I judge her.
I think she is instable enough with a history of seeing her own doubts in herself materialized as a little girl. Seeing all the patients and interacting with them seem to destabilize her. Also, she went there believing she'll see extreme cases and she expected relief from the fact that seeing others in a state will prove that she isn't mentally ill.
But what she sees isn't what she expected. And this is the desabilizator for her.
Another thing. Do we know of any official research that included multiple patients who experience hallucinations in terms of having them in the same environment and seeing if they see whatever the others saw? People with similar symptoms. That would be a great research material - I might as well have a look at this topic.
If another people heard the thud, it's not hallucination if they didn't it's hallucination. But whatever other people say, I wouldn't trust it blindly. Anyone can lie.