Blog #4

Question: How will she do and how is she adjusting in the mental institution? Ho will it affect her dreams of being a psychiatrist when she grows up.

When the author first arrived at the mental institution she was very scared. She had no idea what she was doing there and didn’t think that there was any reason that she should be there. She met with the doctor and he said that nothing will help her unless she admits that she has a problem, but she doesn’t think that she has a problem. When she arrives she is very sad. She misses her family and the building does not in any way cheer her up. It is dark and dreary and the people walk around with keys on their belts, which are constantly jingling. She is also scared because all of the people there are crazy. They do whatever they want and most of them just want to get out of there so they can go back using the drugs that screwed them off in the first place.
After a little while she finds someone that she can talk to. Her name is Babbie and she is in the room right next to the authors. They talk about their past experiences and this makes the author feel less alone. Now she knows one person there and she isn’t as afraid. The doctor also encourages her to start talking to the kids at the institution because he thinks that it is a great idea for her to become a physiatrist when she grows up. So she finally builds up the courage to go and ask a 15-year-old boy about how he got there. The doctor thinks that they more stories and peoples past that she will find out about the better physiatrist she will be in the future and the better she will be able to help children like them.