Chapter Six: Spring
I looked over the list of patients. Even though I recently was almost killed by my own invention, I still need funding. I work as a psychiatrist at the local mental facility, and it looks like I received two new patients. Illaina was found on the side of the road after a rainstorm, and she was already prescribed for anxiety medication. She had more serious case of aqua phobia than we previously thought. She will be admitted to the facility today and will be living at the same apartment complex as our pyromaniac patient, Naina, and I are currently living. I have to be in an area where I can treat her in case a storm comes, or she realises that there is running water thought the building. It's kind of ironic when you think about it, I'm stuck living next to someone deathly afraid of water and someone obsessed with fire. The second patient we received today was a man named Reginald who we found pulling a wheelbarrow full of lettuce around. there are three heads he's convinced real people. He will also be staying at the apartment because one of the heads is starting to wilt and decay, and with how obsessed he is I don't think we can get him out of the mind set before it "dies" and I'll need to be so he doesn't do anything too extreme. One serious design flaw I see though is what is going to happen if Reginald has to water his produce, or Naina burns some of his lettuce, or if Illaina gets burned and she won't let us run it under water until we could get help. It's also rather odd that I was able to even get. Not many people know about my condition. I have a multi personality disorder that surfaced in my late twenties, and it was usually accompanied by co consciousness so I was still able to account for the times I wasn't my original personality. One of the only reasons I don't devote my entire time to the facility is that my other personality is obsessed with mechanical devices. He's partly the reason I almost died, but I don't blame him. He was on the verge of creating a non lethal weapon that would revolutionise how wars were fought. The only problem that he had was getting it to the "non lethal" part. The electricity was only supposed to send a shock that would knock the enemy out until he could be dealt with properly. The only problem I have with him is when he grows bored when we're supposed to be helping a patient, luckily though, he has a special place in the co consciousness when I'm in control, so he knows a bit about how to handle the patients. One time there was this one patient that I just couldn't get to. He was a mechanic with post traumatic stress disorder from serving in the military for a short while. My other personality was able to get to him by devising a whole metaphor of how when a machine is used in the wrong way, it continues to work like that, and that he had to make the mental repairs on his mind to get it working the correct way. It was an odd strategy and wouldn't work with a lot of people, mechanic or not, but it somehow worked. I was amazed at how he made it work until I realised that I have the ability to use his skills. It's an amazing thin that I learned to work together with my "alter ego" and make it seem as though I'm just a psychiatrist with a hobby for machines. my only hope is that nobody in the hospital finds out, because I really don't want to lose my job.