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Deeper Mysteries - Mental Health 218 Therapist Managed Support Groups Most of the Underground has an innate distrust of the MHS. This is partially well founded and is partially because medical science as a whole doesn’t think there is such a thing as CPD (it is possible for one person to come to share in another’s delusion—but no mental illness spreads, literally, as a germ-driven disease). Additionally, many people at Support Group meetings have had terrible (and non-productive) experiences with mental health care professionals. Thus, Support groups that are run by therapists are met by the majority of the Underground with extreme mistrust. Who is the therapist reporting to? What are her or her ulterior motives? What records are being kept? What kind of experimentation is going on? On the other hand, these groups get good drug therapies and, in some cases, the therapist is actually Infected and can provide valuable advice. Making an Appointment With A Therapist (“I’ve been seeing things”) If you show up in a therapist’s office and tell them you’ve been having episodes where you have frightening hallucinations or think others have ‘gone crazy’ the odds of you being committed are not, at least initially, very high. What will probably happen is a series of tests (which will usually find very little) and then a series of drug treatments. If you seem to be “getting worse” eventually a therapist may suggest you check into a facility for monitoring. If you threaten to either hurt someone or yourself therapists are usually required under law to report you. This will result in you being taken into custody. How long you remain there will depend on the specifics. Picked Up By the Police If you encounter a police officer and seem to be having a psychotic episode of some sort they will arrest you and take you in for observation. Depending on the circumstances you could wind up anywhere from general population of the jail to a special psychiatric evaluation facility (or maybe the “drunk tank” if you are presumed intoxicated). Usually you’ll be held for 72 hours (and be evaluated by a doctor) and then released (unless you are really non-functional). Baker Act Using the Florida Baker Act as a model (we presume that many states have created similar laws in the JAGS <strong>Wonderland</strong> universe) a person who is determined by a police officer, doctor, or judge to need an involuntary psychological evaluation can be held up to 72 hours, usually in a psychiatric hospital. If your friends think you are acting strangely they can call the police,
eport you, and the officer on the scene will make a determination as to whether to take you in. Usually you need to be judged to be a danger to yourself or others but if you seem sufficiently out-of-it that can count (simply “believing in alien abduction” but being otherwise rational doesn’t). If you don’t pass the examination (conducted within 72 hours by a credentialed therapist) then you can be sent to a mental hospital for varying amounts of time. What is Being Held Like? Assuming you get a “normal” hospital or psych-ward, here are some elements of the interment. The Psychiatric Ward 1. They’ll take everything away from you (including cell phones and cigarettes). You get pajamas and pajama-like clothing to wear. You may have to buy socks from a commissary. If you smoke they may give you a nicotine patch. 2. You get a room with a roommate. You’ll hear the loudspeaker all night long as you try to sleep—but you might very well be given sedatives if you aren’t cooperating. If you seem suicidal, you get a very unpleasant 24 hr watch (no privacy and the guy watching you isn’t happy to see you). 3. The place is high security: it isn’t a prison but you usually need to be buzzed out through two layers of doors. They assume you’re a flight risk. 4.The food is hospital food. The rooms are often very cold (to help prevent the spread of disease). There are usually one or two TV areas with the sets going all the time. A Psychiatric Institiution 1. They are segregated male and female (although the genders may intermingle). An effort is made to provide courtyards and reasonably comfortable, reasonably normal living conditions. Patients wear street clothes. 2. If you checked in voluntarily, you can leave against recommendation (it usually takes a day or two) unless you are judged a threat to yourself or others. 3. Stimulation is reduced. There’s TV and crafts and books but the staff does their best to keep the amount of activity down to a minimum. 4. Medication is dispensed regularly and most people take some. 219 Deeper Mysteries - Mental Health
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LOOKING-GLASS MAKER 1 Introduction
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Cycle 55 Trigger 55 Depth 55 Notice
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110 The Linear Maze 110 Topology 11
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Effects Of Unbelieving 213 Manageme
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A WORLDBOOK OF ABSURD HORROR FOR TH
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ine them imagining that you can ima
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gauge-energy experiment had somethi
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Outer Circle that the team was now
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eport itself failed to alert the Co
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Characters range from normal people
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People who are Infected as a group
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the first person to change their mi
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“Pills don’t work. They can dul
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“That’s what we call it, anyway
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and configuration standing like sil
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have a hard time infecting anyone i
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MOONEY: “He’s in the program. N
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get them open or they’re locking
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If you’re gonna play Wonderland,
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going crazy or on drugs. The damage
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Reality Is Composed of Eight Chessb
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an Episode? You see all your friend
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Chessboard Two Some of it looks lik
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The Stages of CPD CPD is said to ha
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themselves Shadows are caricatures
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I stood in the room as Christina lo
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the building you could step through
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Avg. Length This is a very rough ti
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Descent to Chessboard One Level of
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taking chances for Controlled Desce
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Usually the GM will call for WIL ro
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Notice: Something’s Looking for Y
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TwistedTwisted One can’t look int
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it’s a bizarre maze you are trapp
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On Chessboard Three It’s even mor
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Chessboard Four At this point Disas
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There are several gradients of the
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Minor Disassociation: At this level
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Reflection Disassociation vs. Actio
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Disassociate but the break would be
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People’s Shadows say and do deepl
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But what if you’re Disassociated?
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The Crest of the Fin: Monsters Down
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Imagine you’re out at night and t
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GM’s Notes on Mastery The gaining
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For a high-empowerment game we sugg
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Advanced [4] Description: The chara
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Avoiding Disassociation: The Standa
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Situation Depth Character is in fea
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Mastery Level Modifier Novice -2 Pr
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Technique Modifiers -1 to the roll
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little work or an excuse (“I had
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Notice Roll This roll is made when
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there are some pieces of advice for
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Topology ‘At any rate I’ll neve
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currency the character has. There a
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The Major Organizations Project Pag
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1. What is going on below the surfa
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that those workmen are taking a lot
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Mostly. Because there are some exce
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Name: The Orange Peel Men WHIRL PHY
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Name: InNetwork Physicians WHIRL PH
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The GM should determine if there ar
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Chessboard Two: The Empty Places Th
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1 st Metro Bank Offices Sane-Abando
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AbandonedOne of the trends that hap
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safeguards though. Believers There
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Construction On Chessboard Two thin
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go, it’ll return to its origin an
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A strange, thriving greenery has be
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The standard of living is reliably
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In a Wonderland home on Chessboard
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Wild Things It is said that Chessbo
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Wonder Clouds The brilliant mother-
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In the Garden of Uden there are ros
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Name: Lucky Quarter Description: A
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e doing and if they choose not to d
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Ecology Chessboard Four has the Wil
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and one might find that a series of
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