NAME }} Ivana Genevieve Young
NICKNAME }} Igy (from her full name), Ivy
AGE }} 17
DIAGNOSIS }} Bereavement Disorder | Depression | Anorexia Nervosa |
She is new to the facility and not at all excited for it either - and will let anyone and everyone know that, too.
{{Determined • Cunning • Gregarious • Shrewd • Cold}}
PERSONALITY }} Reckless, adventurous, and bold: Ivana has almost no limit to what she will do in life. If someone told her there was a dragon, she'd go find it. She lived life to her fullest capacity, but sometimes went over-board. She needed her twin to pull her back and think, something she sometimes forgot to do. Ivana is cunning, and will try to find her way around anything that doesn't suit her fancy. Ambition is her drive, but will often procrastinate. She loves helping people, but will only help less fortunate like a modern-day Robin Hood. She is level-headed, but has a snappy retort if someone annoys her. After Ellen's death, she has become colder and more bitter side, especially after her twin dies. Her extent of honesty has declined and her extrovert personality has withered. She used to be more out-going and friendly; now, she withdraws from others. Furthermore, Ivana has developed a sarcastic attitude and is extremely vigilant when she used to be carefree. While Ivana would like to help others, she no longer finds motivation or any point in it.
STRENGTHS }}- Reading
- Athletics - swimming, running, and cycling.
- Drawing
- Candy - specifically gushers, chocolate, and gum.
- Animals
- She loves watching TV, partiuclarly reality becasue it makes her laugh
- Enjoys fashion and dreamed of beign a designer one day but has sincelet go of it.
WEAKNESSES }}- Optimism
- Making friends / maintaining relatinships. It's easier to mvoe a boulder uphill than to make friends with Ivana; but when she finds someone she geuninely likes, she will cling to them like no tomorrow.
- Abiding by certain rules (if they restrict something she wants, she will try finding ways around it
- Being bored. She needs to always be doing something or she might have fit. Forget sleeping - she has nightmares of Ellen's death on loop.
- Beaches, pools, and any landscape with open water.
- Eating. She struggles with eating and feels compelled to purge.
HISTORY}} Ivana grew up in a set of twins. Her sister, Ellen, was only a few minutes older than she. They grew up in lower-middle class family in the suburbs of New York. As a child, Ivana and Ellen were inseparable: they did everything together. Since they were identical, the two would pretend to be the other only to to their parent's exasperation. Despite their antics, their parents loved them both and raised them to the best of their ability. Though they had low-money, they tried to make sure their kids were happy and had what they needed Luckily, the two were, for the most part, satisfied with having each other. As kids, Ivana would egg her sister on to being adventurous, and Ellen would keep her sister from doing reckless activities. Once Ivana had tried to cliff dive at 13 and Ellen had forcibly stopped her from doing so. They got into a fight but ended up making up a week later.
At age 16, they both had a wide circle of friends. While Ivana was more gregarious than Ellen, her twin was more charming. The two made up for the other person's flaw which helped them socially. On a hot summer day the twins were at the beach. While Ivana repressed the memories and blocked it out, one thing stood out: Ellen had drowned. At first, Ivana didn't believe it; she expected her twin to pop out and surprise her like she used to as a kid. Ivana fell into a deep depression. She became disconnected with reality. Her grades slipped, she lost her scholarship, and her friends. She had stopped talking to people and wouldn't get out of bed. Instead of sleeping a normal 8-hour schedule, Ivana developed hypersomnia and would sleep at least twelve hours per-day. No matter how hard her parents tried waking her, she slept.Doctors figured she would heal and move on but she never did. Finally after a year, her parents took her to see a therapist who diagnosed her with bereavement disorder. They gave her medication and tried therapy for six months.
Since she couldn't save her twin, Ivana sought for a means of control in her life and turned to her diet. She controlled how much she ate nd began dropping well bellow 500 calories per-day and purging out of guilt when she ate more. Ivana also worked out excessively and would workout in gyms until her parents forced her to come home. She joined cross country in the fall and ran every day; in winter, she joined swimming. The following spring she conditioned for track and field.
During the summer before her junior year, she cotninued running and controlling her diet. Concerned, she was checked for eating disorders and was was diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia. She fainted multiple times during training and was found by her friend's (she never ran alone) and taken back home. Her parents had enough and knew she needed more intense therapy and help so they sent her Treewit psychiatric hospital. She is not happy about it either and tried running away but didn't get far due to her lethargy.
OTHER}} - Ivana is a mixture of ethnicites: Russian, French, and Jamaican.
- Loves the color pink and blue.
- Will hide at the slightest provocation of intimidation or mention of death
- Loves bunnies. Win her over by buying her chocolate bunnies and stuffed animals.
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