Title: 30 Days
Rating: Mature (For adult subject matter)
Paring: Gibbs/DiNozzo
Disclaimer: I do not own anything to do with NCIS and if I did I would not be writing fanfiction it would be too creepy!
Warning: Mentions of suicide and the inner workings of a psychiatric hospital
SUMMARY: 15-year-old Tony DiNozzo is brought to the adolescent wing of the 'Psychiatric Institute of Washington after attempting suicide. How will the next 30 days go? Will Tony be able to make it and come out the better person everybody expects him to be, or will the experience break him and he comes out wore then when he went in?
CLIENT DIAGNOSES & BACKGROUND
ANTHONY (TONY) MANNING DINOZZO CLIENT # 60143
AGE: 15 DOB: July 8th
DIAGNOSIS
- Bipolar 1 Disorder Severe with psychosis
- Conduct Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Anthony Manning DiNozzo JR. was born into a wealthy family. His father owned many businesses around the Washington DC area and across the country. Tony's mother died from cancer when Tony was eight-years-old leaving his father to be his soul caregiver. This was hard for the young boy because his father was barely around and when he was he was emotionally absent as well.
Tony started showing mental health challenges when he was ten-years-old when he started acting up in school. His teacher sent him to the principle's office for using vulgar language and picking fights with other children on the playground. Tony would often be sent home for his behavior where his father punished him. Punishment in the DiNozzo household was a lot of grounding and sometimes even physical punishment through slaps across the face and beating him wit his belt.
This behavior continued and didn't get any better or worse until one afternoon when he had been sent home from school when he grabbed a kitchen knife and started chasing the housekeeper around the house with the knife. Tony was quickly rushed to the hospital and he spent 10 days in their locked psychiatric program for children. He got put on medication for ADHD, thinking his behavior was simply because he was bored and unable to vocalize this to the adults in his life. He was then sent home and returned to school where he successfully finished off the school year without any further problems.
Things were good until around Tony's 13th birthday when he attempted to commit suicide after breaking up with his girlfriend by swallowing all of his ADHD medication. His father found him lying on the floor of his bedroom unresponsive. He again was hospitalized in the psychiatric wing of the hospital after he was medically cleared safe to do so. He spent a month in the hospital because his symptoms were so intense. He would attack staff and pick fights with other patients. He was awake for days on end even when on sleeping medication. He was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder with psychosis and conduct disorder.
At the age of 14 Tony met 17-year-old Leroy Jethro Gibbs and was ga ga over him at first sight. Tony had been wondering about his sexuality for a while now and falling for Gibbs told him that it was true. They quickly started a relationship and Tony was worried how his father would take the news but he told him anyway. Like expected Anthony Sr. took the news badly and kicked his son out of the house. Tony then moved in with Jet who owned his own house outside of town. This arrangement went well but Tony's mood still dropped and he started hearing voices again. This caused him try to commit suicide again by taking 100 Benadryl. This led to his current long-term psychiatric stay.
ANTHONY RYAN HOWARD
CLIENT # 60122
AGE 16 DOB: May 22nd
DIAGNOSIS
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Conduct Disorder
- Psychotic Disorder NOS
BACKGROUND
Anthony Howard had a rough childhood from the very beginning. His mother was a prostitute and had no idea who his father was. Anthony lived with his mother until he was 5 when he was taken into state custody and he never saw his mother again. He was then placed in a six different foster placements before the age of ten that would fail because of aggressive behavior. Also because of these behaviors he was placed in a behavior classroom at school where he continued to not be successful. At this point his case worker thought it would be better off spending some time at a Psychiatric Residential Treatment center where he spent a month getting stabilized on medication and a Therapeutic foster family could be found. Once one was found he went to live with Harold and Bonnie Kline a middle aged couple who had, had therapeutic foster children in the past and really enjoyed it because they could watch the children grow in small steps.
Having a stable family was a good thing for Anthony but he was still getting into fights at school. At one point he gave his classmate a concussion. The consequence for this was being placed in JDH for 10 months before being sent back to his current foster parents who despite everything still wanted Anthony in their lives.
Anthony appeared stable for the next three years but at the age of 13 some rather disturbing symptoms began. On one occasion his foster father found him on the roof of his of their house stating to everybody that he could fly. It took three firefighters to get him off the roof and sent off to the hospital for evaluation. He spent a few weeks there getting put on various anti-psychotic medications.
Again Anthony was able to be successful in the community until one night he got in a fight wit his parents and he tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists. Thankfully his mother found him and they quickly rushed him to the hospital. It is this hospitalization that got him referred to his current placement since he was showing the need for a higher level of care and a longer hospital stay.
TIMOTHY (TIMMY) GARRETT MCGEE
CLIENT # 60333
AGE 14 DOB: November 15th
- Aspergers Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Timmy is a 14-year-old boy who lives with his mother and younger sister. Timmy was diagnosed with Asperger Disorder at the age of 5 when it appeared he was unable to function correctly in his preschool classroom. Developmental testing was completed and they diagnosed Timmy with Asperger. He got moved to a special school that works with children all over the autism spectrum. He was successful there until he started to become overly aggressive towards teachers and other students. His long-term therapist was unsure what was going on so she suggested a short hospital stay to try and get medication evened out. He was in the hospital for about a week before being sent back to his mother's care.
At the age of 12 he had his first suicide attempt by trying to strangle himself with the extension cord used for their Christmas lights. He again was sent to the hospital and spent three weeks trying to tweak his meds and work with his therapist there to see what else needs to be done for him to stay on track. They got him on a new medication and his suicidal and aggressive behaviors stopped.
Timmy was stable until his 14th birthday when he attempted suicide by taking 15 of his mother's blood pressure medicine. Once at the hospital he had his stomach pumped but that didn't stop him from going into a coma for a week. Once he woke he was transferred to his current placement where he has now been there for 3 months because his aggressive and suicidal behavior has continued while in the hospital.
ZIVA MARIE DAVID
CLIENT # 60631
AGE 16 DOB: November 12th
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Conduct Disorder
BACKGROUND
Ziva is at 16-year-old female originally from Israel. She moved to the U.S. 3 years ago when she was 13. She left her Father and brother back home while she now lives with her Paternal Aunt. Ziva moved due to high levels of aggression in her father's care. Her father is the director of the Mossad and unable to look after his daughter the way she needed him to.
After her move Ziva had a honeymoon faze where her behavior was stable and it appeared she was going to be successful in her new living arrangement. This was the case until she started staying out late and coming home spelling of cigarettes and marijuana. When confronted with this she would deny it.
The big change happened when Ziva was 15 when she got pregnant and only told her Aunt after she had already had an abortion. Feeling her niece was completely out of control her Aunt enrolled her in a local Psychiatric Residential program for girls.
This ended up being an even worse move because in the program Ziva would pick fights with the other girls and even got the whole unit into a riot. After this Ziva was sent to the hospital program that she currently is living at for the past few months.
ABIGIAL (ABBY) JENIFER SCIUTO
CLIENT # 60625
AGE: 16 DOB: March 27th
- Bipolar 1 Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Pregnancy
Abby was brought to the hospital from a teen pregnancy center after trying to kill herself by overdosing on various prescription psychiatric medication. Abby identifies as Bipolar and has had this diagnosis since the age of six. She has had pervious hospital stays each one lasting about a month. Abby identifies her relationship with her parents as strained, but that she gets along better with her long time boyfriend (and babies father) than her parents.
Abby got pregnant 7 months ago and automatically knew she was going to keep the baby. The baby's father is very supportive even though he is only 15 years old. Her relationship with her parents is a different story. They are highly religious and believe that Abby committed and ultimate sin. After a fight with her parents Abby ran away from home and ended up checking herself into a teen pregnancy center. She stayed there for three months before her psychiatric symptoms got out of control and it was no longer a safe environment for her and her baby as well as the other teen parents living at the center.
She was checked into her current hospital stay three months ago where she is hoping to stabilize on medication that works well with her pregnancy. She hopes to be able to go home once the baby is born because since she started this hospital stay she has made up with her parents and they no longer shun her for her behavior and the baby. Her parents come and visit her every week and want nothing more then for Abby to get stable and come home with them.
JAMES (JIMMY) BRIAN PALMER
CLIENT # 6024
AGE 14 DOB November 14th
- Schizophrenia Paranoid type
- Social Anxiety Disorder
Both his parents, James SR. and Kathy Palmer, raised Jimmy. He has three younger brothers ages 10, 8, and 3. Jimmy has always been a very smart kid, getting straight A's in school. Even though he did well at school Jimmy had difficulties going to his classes and would often fake being sick so he could stay home. To him doing the make-up work at home was a lot easier then being in class. At the age of 12 his parents began to worry so they set him up with a therapist where he was diagnosed as having Social Anxiety Disorder at the age of 12 and put on anti-anxiety medication. To try and counteract that he was placed in a special classroom at school where the teacher to student ratio was much smaller and he didn't have to worry about large classroom sizes.
This seemed to work well for a few years, Jimmy was thriving in his new classroom at school and he was actually enjoying being around other kids. That is until things started to get much worse then before. Jimmy started to experience visual and auditory hallucinations. He tried to hide it from his parents but soon they began to wonder what was going on. He would take two minute long showers and could be heard mumbling to himself on various occasions.
It didn't get too bad until after he turned 14 and when the visual hallucinations were getting worse. At this point he had to tell his parents what was going on because he knew he needed some sort of help. He started going back to his therapist and was able to tell him about the voices. He added an anti-psychotic to his medication ritual to see if that would cause the voices to clear up.
Well the voices didn't get better and soon he started to experience visual hallucinations as well. He would see scary looking people while he was in the shower he would engage in self-harm by putting soap in his eyes white in the shower to hopefully get the visual hallucinations to go away. The worst of it all happened after his 14th birthday when he started to see his father as a bloody clown that was chasing him around the house with a knife.
These symptoms were so severe his therapist was able to get Jimmy into the long-term facility even though he hadn't had any past hospitalizations. Jimmy has now been in the hospital for over a month and is having difficulties with joining groups and not isolating in his room. The paranoia is just too much for him to handle so doctors are really working on his medications to try and get some of the hallucinations to let up and Jimmy can be at ease in his own mind again.
JENNY LAREN SHEPERD
CLIENT # 66780
AGE 13 DOB October 28th
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder
Jenny was born to a wealthy family with both her parents and two older brothers actively in her life. Jenny was a smart girl and went to a private Catholic school where she learned normal school things but she was always curious about when the nuns talked about the Bible and Catholicism.
It was on Jenny's 12th birthday that her life made a quick turn for the worst. She was sleeping in her bed and her oldest brother came in and sexually assaulted her. When she told her parents they didn't believe her because their son was the captain of the school's football team and in their eyes could do nothing wrong.
Jenny was unable to cope with the assault or her parent's reaction and started self-harming behaviors. She would cut the insides of her thighs so nobody would see but soon that wasn't enough. One night when everybody was asleep she walked to the bathroom and slit her wrists while lying in the bathtub. She had seen people do that on TV so she figured that was the best way to do it now. She had been lying in a pool of her own blood until her 15-year-old brother came into the bathroom and found her. He quickly called for his parents and the rushed Jenny to the hospital. She needed a few blood transfusions but overall was physically healthy. When a mental health provider came to talk to the family everybody, but Jenny, thought that Jenny should spend some time in the hospital, maybe a month or two to work out what was going on in her life.
LEON ROSCOE VANCE
CLIENT # 65781
AGE 17 DOB July 8th
-Mild mental retardation
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Leon was removed from his biological mother's care when he was 6 months old. His mother was a heroin and meth addict and was unable to care for her son. She had also been doing these various drugs while pregnant with her son.
By the age of 3 it became obvious that he had some mental deficits and was slow in meeting all milestones. His foster family brought him into the doctor for testing and his IQ was low enough that he was diagnosed as mildly retarded.
Since the start of school Leon was in a special class where he could get 1:1 attention and help on his schoolwork. The only problem is he was often aggressive in school and the teachers were having difficulties keeping him and the other kids safe. This is when one of his teachers suggested Leon spend some time in a local psychiatric residential treatment center where he could get medication worked out and then successfully return back to his current foster family.
Leon stayed at the residential center for about a month before returning home. His aggressive behavior seemed to have died down but now he was doing other odd behaviors like sticking his hands down his pants in inappropriate settings or stripping his close off in the middle of the grocery store for example.
His foster family took him to his doctor to try and see what to do with these bizarre behaviors. This was when he was referred to his current hospital placement. He has been in the hospital one month.
LEROY JETHRO (JET) GIBBS
AGE 18
Jet is Tony DiNozzo's boyfriend and he is very supportive of his young lover and has gotten him into various placements when he needed it. When Tony's father disowned him for being gay, Jet was right there and offering a place for Tony to stay.
Jet is currently in the Marine Corps Reserves and on a normal day is a security guard in the same hospital that Tony just checked into. He knows it really helps Tony knowing he is so close by if he really needs his help. Jet is just simply a very supportive boyfriend who wants nothing more then to be with his boyfriend whenever he can.