The word 'asylum' has been taken and twisted by society to mean something bad. It's a place where the unwanted, deranged, and violent people go to live out their miserable existence. It's a bad place; a scary place. But this isn't what asylum means. Asylum means haven, refuge, hideaway. It's a place were one goes when nowhere else will take them. It's a shelter from the storm, a friendly smile here and there, and a bed to sleep in.
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
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In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
The insane have been labeled as violent people: heartless, cruel, cunning, and murderous people. For some, this may be true, but for others, they are just as human as anyone else. They are just as sick as a patient with cancer, only they don't receive the pity. They are cast out from their homes, shunned from society, and treated like criminals. The last place for them to go is the very place that has been the subject of nightmares: the asylum. The very place that is portrayed in horror movies, video games, and spooky tales is the place these people call home; sometimes the only place they have left.
Here, we can follow the lives and times of the pariahs.
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In case you didn't notice, I really love crazy people. This RP will take a different from the typical 'horror' genre that most asylum RPs have. I want a realistic, true to life story of your schizophrenics, antisocials, psychopaths, bipolars, ect. This may require research if you don't know your stuff already. I don't want the poorly portrayed, slasher film psycho that most people have come to know as the 'typical' insane person.
They will be living in a privately owned mental health hospital that charges next to nothing for it's patients to stay there, receiving it's funds from donations, charities, state, whatever. Most of the patients there are paid for by family members or disability checks. The hospital allows them to stay as long as they need, until they're ready to live in the real world, or until the day they die.
The staff may seem nice enough, but one has to remember that nurses are people too. Taking care of the patients is their job; they get paid for it. As such, some may be just as thrilled to do it as you are with your own job. Others may be genuinely thrilled.
The hospital offers double occupant rooms for those that enjoy company, and single occupant rooms for those that don't. There is are plenty of social areas to encourage mingling: a TV room, art room and music room, a small gym, ect. They is a cafeteria that offers a fairly wide menu: three hot meals a day, and sandwiches/salads/wraps for those who don't want whatever their serving.
All and all, it's a fairly nice place. Still, it's a hospital, and a mental hospital at that, so there's bound to be drama. This nurse doesn't like that patient, that patient doesn't like this nurse, this patient doesn't like that guy, this guy tried to piss on that guy, ect.
