Sleep-Study Institute
July 5th – New patient admitted.
Patient No. 738 [Name Withheld]
Age: 28
Height: 5’ 4”
Weight: 120 lbs.
Patient checked into facility complaining of severe insomnia and intermittent migraines. Medical history shows minor success with major tranquilizers but patient discontinued drug therapy after feelings of chemical restraint grew more common (“It was like a lobotomy”). Monitored sleep patterns will commence in room 31.
July 12th – Patient 738’s insomnia has not improved with controlled sleeping conditions, diet, or exercise regimes. Psychological causes are most likely. Routine patient history will be taken as well as cognitive and physical examinations before psychotherapy commences. Patient has expressed discomfort in her bed, mostly attributable to persistent symptoms.
July 15th – Psychotherapy commences. Strong initial resistance.
July 21st – Patient admits and recognizes strong sense of disdain for her mother. No immediate explanation for depth of resent.
July 30th – Suggestions of domestic abuse have become evident. Childhood trauma associated with beds or sleep may explain resurgent avoidant behaviors. Patient considerably more aggrieved with her quarters and regularly complains of scratching her feet and legs on abrasive or sharp grit under the covers. A note about thicker, softer sheets has been sent to the orderlies.
August 12th – Patient treated for scrapes and punctures on legs; thought to be self-inflicted. Patient claims the bedding is responsible (“rows of knives”). Mattress changed and minor tranquilizers added to vitamins to forestall further complications.
August 14th – The patient has successfully been guided to the understanding of repressed childhood abuse. Her mother, it seems, used to routinely tie the child in her bed with rope and leave her alone for up to 18 hours at a time. The isolation, restraint, darkness, and abandonment seems to have been repressed until, moving into a new apartment, the patient acquired a bed with corner posts similar to the one she was restrained in as a child. Recent abrasions are most easily explained as an unconsciously mirrored condition to the damage inflicted by rough rope on bare skin for long hours.
August 15th – Patient experienced violent, lucid nightmares, possibly reliving her torturous childhood. Described physical conditions similar to her trauma (“the bed was holding me down,” “I couldn’t move,” “it was trying to eat me”). This last delusion is especially troubling, as she has insisted avoiding a bed entirely, a compulsion that she is using to shut out the truth of her past. She must sleep in the bed.
August 19th – Exhaustive therapy has made significant progress and the patient conceded to normalized sleeping conditions. Migraines and insomnia have all but vanished.
September 1st – Relapse. Self-mutilating punctures and night terrors have returned. Patient now describes auditory hallucinations, such as heavy, close panting and other, similar sounds (“a horrible slurping”). Regretfully, major tranquilizers will have to be utilized to restore calm and to ensure she sleeps without disturbance in her bed.
September 2nd – [Entry Redacted]
September 3rd – Patient released upon her request.
October 1st – Missing persons contacted facility in regard to [Name Withheld]. She has not been seen since July, suggesting she did not return home after being released, as our records indicate. A troubling affair, given the progression of her deteriorating psychosis (“I’m telling you, that bed’s been growing teeth”), but sadly, not one we are in any position to address after she discontinued the use of our services.
October 3rd – New patient admitted.
Patient No. 739 [Name Withheld]
Age: 25
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 186 lbs.
Patient has been placed in room 31. Complains of sleep apnea. No previous medical treatment for her condition. No night terror issues documented, though tranquilizers will still be utilized until sensitivity is gauged. We have great hopes for this one. So much… larger… than 738.
Patient No. 738 [Name Withheld]
Age: 28
Height: 5’ 4”
Weight: 120 lbs.
Patient checked into facility complaining of severe insomnia and intermittent migraines. Medical history shows minor success with major tranquilizers but patient discontinued drug therapy after feelings of chemical restraint grew more common (“It was like a lobotomy”). Monitored sleep patterns will commence in room 31.
July 12th – Patient 738’s insomnia has not improved with controlled sleeping conditions, diet, or exercise regimes. Psychological causes are most likely. Routine patient history will be taken as well as cognitive and physical examinations before psychotherapy commences. Patient has expressed discomfort in her bed, mostly attributable to persistent symptoms.
July 15th – Psychotherapy commences. Strong initial resistance.
July 21st – Patient admits and recognizes strong sense of disdain for her mother. No immediate explanation for depth of resent.
July 30th – Suggestions of domestic abuse have become evident. Childhood trauma associated with beds or sleep may explain resurgent avoidant behaviors. Patient considerably more aggrieved with her quarters and regularly complains of scratching her feet and legs on abrasive or sharp grit under the covers. A note about thicker, softer sheets has been sent to the orderlies.
August 12th – Patient treated for scrapes and punctures on legs; thought to be self-inflicted. Patient claims the bedding is responsible (“rows of knives”). Mattress changed and minor tranquilizers added to vitamins to forestall further complications.
August 14th – The patient has successfully been guided to the understanding of repressed childhood abuse. Her mother, it seems, used to routinely tie the child in her bed with rope and leave her alone for up to 18 hours at a time. The isolation, restraint, darkness, and abandonment seems to have been repressed until, moving into a new apartment, the patient acquired a bed with corner posts similar to the one she was restrained in as a child. Recent abrasions are most easily explained as an unconsciously mirrored condition to the damage inflicted by rough rope on bare skin for long hours.
August 15th – Patient experienced violent, lucid nightmares, possibly reliving her torturous childhood. Described physical conditions similar to her trauma (“the bed was holding me down,” “I couldn’t move,” “it was trying to eat me”). This last delusion is especially troubling, as she has insisted avoiding a bed entirely, a compulsion that she is using to shut out the truth of her past. She must sleep in the bed.
August 19th – Exhaustive therapy has made significant progress and the patient conceded to normalized sleeping conditions. Migraines and insomnia have all but vanished.
September 1st – Relapse. Self-mutilating punctures and night terrors have returned. Patient now describes auditory hallucinations, such as heavy, close panting and other, similar sounds (“a horrible slurping”). Regretfully, major tranquilizers will have to be utilized to restore calm and to ensure she sleeps without disturbance in her bed.
September 2nd – [Entry Redacted]
September 3rd – Patient released upon her request.
October 1st – Missing persons contacted facility in regard to [Name Withheld]. She has not been seen since July, suggesting she did not return home after being released, as our records indicate. A troubling affair, given the progression of her deteriorating psychosis (“I’m telling you, that bed’s been growing teeth”), but sadly, not one we are in any position to address after she discontinued the use of our services.
October 3rd – New patient admitted.
Patient No. 739 [Name Withheld]
Age: 25
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 186 lbs.
Patient has been placed in room 31. Complains of sleep apnea. No previous medical treatment for her condition. No night terror issues documented, though tranquilizers will still be utilized until sensitivity is gauged. We have great hopes for this one. So much… larger… than 738.
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