Post by NPC on Jan 29, 2010 22:06:17 GMT -5
**September 2009, Los Angeles, California**
Dr. Penelope Tyler, sat at her chair listening to her patient as he continued to explain about his power. She kept on taking notes as he spoke.
"So when you... Make things explode... What happens? Does your anger go away for a while?" said the doctor to him. Ernest Bowers simply nodded.
"Making things explode is not healthy as a therapy method to release stress" said the Doctor.
"I don't want to, it just happens, when I think about it" said the man. "I get mad and it happens, my mind makes it happen"
"So your mind tells you to make them explode?" asked the doctor.
"No... you're not understanding me Doc... My mind explodes them..." said Ernest. "Like... boom..."
Penny showed herself skeptical to what she was hearing, she had heard stories like this many times before, all she had to do was make him realize that he was having a psychotic episode and then help him deal with it, perhaps some medications for delusions. It was weird when psychosis only presented itself as one symptom, it usually came with many, although his feelings of being watched by men in suits some times during the day border lined paranoia. Two symptoms indicated psychosis might follow but not just yet.
"Ernest, hallucinations are really common to people with your symptoms" said Penny. "I believe you are in the early stages of psychosis, but don't worry there are really good treatments and we caught it early"
"I'm not insane Doc" said Ernest getting increasingly irritated by this. "I'm not making this up, my girlfriend saw what I can do"
"She saw you setting something in fire, or did she spontaneous combustion?" said Penny. "You need to ask yourself that Ernest"
"She saw me doing what I just told you, damn it... She was the one that suggested therapy"
"Has anyone else besides her has witnessed the event?" said Penny trying to diagnose something other than superpowers, that was just insane. "A family member, a friend, someone in the street?"
"No... I mean, my mom always comes when everything is already burnt... but it has never happened like that with her..." said Ernest feeling a bit relieved that finally the doctor was taking him serious.
"Well, there is a rare psychological symptom, it doesn't happen often but it has happened, specially with couples after experiencing a trauma together, your house burning down obviously qualifies as a trauma... It's called Folie a deux. In english, it is a shared hallucination, like I said, it's extremely rare but..." she started explaining but was cut short by Ernest, who was now standing up and looking at her with rage. Many hallucinatory patients reacted like that, she needed to remain calm and approach the subject from another perspective.
"I'm not hallucinating damn it!" he yelled at the doctor. "I am not crazy!!"
"No one is calling you crazy Ernest, it's simply a symptom of a reversable condition" said Penny trying to calm him down.
"I'M NOT SICK, YOU MANIC BITCH!" yelled Ernie finally losing control after being told for an hour that he was hallucinating.
Suddenly, Ernie's rage manifested physically and the couch he had been sitting on caught on flames, the same as some of the books on the shelves and a table.
Penny looked in awe as her stuff started burning, this was something she had never seen before. It was the rupture of a paradigm bigger than her, something that the greater psychologists before her would have never dream possible.
"Ernest... you... this..." she said in a mixture of fear and amazement. "How are you doing it?"
"I told you!" he said still angry and screaming. "This is what happens when I get angry! Stuff burns!"
Penny's theories and everything she knew about psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia would have to be looked through a different kind of glass.
Dr. Penelope Tyler, sat at her chair listening to her patient as he continued to explain about his power. She kept on taking notes as he spoke.
"So when you... Make things explode... What happens? Does your anger go away for a while?" said the doctor to him. Ernest Bowers simply nodded.
"Making things explode is not healthy as a therapy method to release stress" said the Doctor.
"I don't want to, it just happens, when I think about it" said the man. "I get mad and it happens, my mind makes it happen"
"So your mind tells you to make them explode?" asked the doctor.
"No... you're not understanding me Doc... My mind explodes them..." said Ernest. "Like... boom..."
Penny showed herself skeptical to what she was hearing, she had heard stories like this many times before, all she had to do was make him realize that he was having a psychotic episode and then help him deal with it, perhaps some medications for delusions. It was weird when psychosis only presented itself as one symptom, it usually came with many, although his feelings of being watched by men in suits some times during the day border lined paranoia. Two symptoms indicated psychosis might follow but not just yet.
"Ernest, hallucinations are really common to people with your symptoms" said Penny. "I believe you are in the early stages of psychosis, but don't worry there are really good treatments and we caught it early"
"I'm not insane Doc" said Ernest getting increasingly irritated by this. "I'm not making this up, my girlfriend saw what I can do"
"She saw you setting something in fire, or did she spontaneous combustion?" said Penny. "You need to ask yourself that Ernest"
"She saw me doing what I just told you, damn it... She was the one that suggested therapy"
"Has anyone else besides her has witnessed the event?" said Penny trying to diagnose something other than superpowers, that was just insane. "A family member, a friend, someone in the street?"
"No... I mean, my mom always comes when everything is already burnt... but it has never happened like that with her..." said Ernest feeling a bit relieved that finally the doctor was taking him serious.
"Well, there is a rare psychological symptom, it doesn't happen often but it has happened, specially with couples after experiencing a trauma together, your house burning down obviously qualifies as a trauma... It's called Folie a deux. In english, it is a shared hallucination, like I said, it's extremely rare but..." she started explaining but was cut short by Ernest, who was now standing up and looking at her with rage. Many hallucinatory patients reacted like that, she needed to remain calm and approach the subject from another perspective.
"I'm not hallucinating damn it!" he yelled at the doctor. "I am not crazy!!"
"No one is calling you crazy Ernest, it's simply a symptom of a reversable condition" said Penny trying to calm him down.
"I'M NOT SICK, YOU MANIC BITCH!" yelled Ernie finally losing control after being told for an hour that he was hallucinating.
Suddenly, Ernie's rage manifested physically and the couch he had been sitting on caught on flames, the same as some of the books on the shelves and a table.
Penny looked in awe as her stuff started burning, this was something she had never seen before. It was the rupture of a paradigm bigger than her, something that the greater psychologists before her would have never dream possible.
"Ernest... you... this..." she said in a mixture of fear and amazement. "How are you doing it?"
"I told you!" he said still angry and screaming. "This is what happens when I get angry! Stuff burns!"
Penny's theories and everything she knew about psychosis, paranoia and schizophrenia would have to be looked through a different kind of glass.