Welcome to St Gertrud's Adolescent Unit, a psychiatric hospital known for its unique approach to treating children ages twelve to eighteen, for a variety of mental illnesses. Here at St Gertrud's, we believe that mental illness isn't just a case of diagnosis, followed by extensive therapy and medication, no, we believe that young people suffering from mental illness need to learn to connect with the world around them, and find a way to fit into our society, and one of the ways we help them with that is by giving them their very own pokemon. We offer classes based on a number of professions other adolescents might like in the outside world; contest techniques, performance practice, and battle theory, so that they will learn to interact with others in the outside world, and build healthy long term goals, and dreams which they can try to achieve upon release. We're sure that your child will recover here!
Bio Time!
Name: Iris Hawthorne
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Diagnosis: Severe depression, intrusive thoughts, and social anxiety
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Iris sat alone in the admissions office, having had her possessions searched, and a room allocated to her a little while ago. The whole way here, her father had been going on about how wonderful it was that she was finally receiving treatment, oh, and how excited she must be, now that she was getting her very own pokemon. Though Iris was excited at the thought of getting her own pokemon, she was terrified about everything else. She had to have a room-mate. She had to stay in this cold, unfamiliar hospital, where she could be picked up and restrained if she refused her treatment. She couldn't have any of her makeup, or hair ribbons; the hospital didn't allow glass makeup bottles, or laces, or anything that could be tied tight.
Before she could begin sobbing quietly into her cardigan sleeves, a nurse came by and offered her a big plastic tray, filled with all sorts of pokeballs. She took a luxury ball, as the nurse explained that the pokemon inside was going to be her partner.
"Don't open the pokeball yet, dear," the nurse instructed, "We need to wait for the other new patients to arrive, and then, we can all meet our partners together, alright?"
"A-alright," Iris mumbled, as the nurse went to open the door for the new patients.
"Come inside, dears, and take a pokeball!" the nurse invited, "Then, we can all get to know each other, and or partners!"
Bio Time!
Name: Iris Hawthorne
Age: 14
Gender: Female
Diagnosis: Severe depression, intrusive thoughts, and social anxiety
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Iris sat alone in the admissions office, having had her possessions searched, and a room allocated to her a little while ago. The whole way here, her father had been going on about how wonderful it was that she was finally receiving treatment, oh, and how excited she must be, now that she was getting her very own pokemon. Though Iris was excited at the thought of getting her own pokemon, she was terrified about everything else. She had to have a room-mate. She had to stay in this cold, unfamiliar hospital, where she could be picked up and restrained if she refused her treatment. She couldn't have any of her makeup, or hair ribbons; the hospital didn't allow glass makeup bottles, or laces, or anything that could be tied tight.
Before she could begin sobbing quietly into her cardigan sleeves, a nurse came by and offered her a big plastic tray, filled with all sorts of pokeballs. She took a luxury ball, as the nurse explained that the pokemon inside was going to be her partner.
"Don't open the pokeball yet, dear," the nurse instructed, "We need to wait for the other new patients to arrive, and then, we can all meet our partners together, alright?"
"A-alright," Iris mumbled, as the nurse went to open the door for the new patients.
"Come inside, dears, and take a pokeball!" the nurse invited, "Then, we can all get to know each other, and or partners!"