Short Story: The Nest Of Insanity, And Sadness

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The Nest of Insanity, Pain, and Sadness It’s only been two days in this hellhole. The agony, sadness, and anger, it hurts, please make it stop! As she lies in the cool tile floor crawling, groaning, and holding her head. She wanted the pain to go away it was not physical pain. But that it was mental pain, which continued to strike her in ways that she could never have imagined. Her name was Violet Reva, she was fourteen-years-old. She was sent to Hilltop Mental Hospital because of one stupid mistake, her own actions, and now she is paying back with the label of “mental unstable,” or how some shrinks called it “A danger to not only herself, but to others.” However, she wanted to believe that she was not a danger to others’ all she ever wanted …show more content…
The door, switched buzzed meaning it was unlocked. A female nurse came in and brought a machine which checks the blood pressure of a patient. When Violet saw this, she immediately stood up and looked at the nurse. The nurse’s name tag read “Giselle,” she was a petite woman, looked to be around mid-twenties, and had a pixie haircut which was colored in a burgundy brown. She had a warm glow almost angel-like and a pure heart. Nurse Giselle took two steps towards, but Violet took three steps back because she was afraid of hurting the nurse.
However the nurse saw this and said to her. “Don’t worry I won’t hurt you and I know that you won’t hurt me.”
When the nurse said those words, something awakened within Violet almost as if somebody who barely knew her could sense her own fears and sadness. Therefore, Violet trusted her and let the nurse proceed in taking her blood pressure. Violet felt the Velcro strap go around her forearm and the pressure it build up, she glanced at the number and noticed that her blood pressure was low. As a result, the nurse advised her to try to eat something and Violet agreed to do so bearing mind that the food sucked, especially in a hospital. But she never mentioned it to the nurse.
When the nurse was about to leave, she paused at the doorway, and turned around. In which she said. “Why are you afraid of yourself? And who did this to
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“If I am capable of hurting myself, then would that mean I’m a harm to others? I brought it upon myself it is my own fault.”
Then, the nurse stared at her for three minutes and she knocked on the door. Therefore, it buzzed indicating that it was open and the nurse left into the bright hallway. Once again, Violet was left alone in her own dark thoughts and contemplating whether outside it was morning, afternoon, or night because there were no windows in the place that she called. “Hell.”
Later on during the day, Violet laid on the bed and stared up at the wall wondering how long she would remain here. She began to have flashbacks of all the events that lead her to the position that she was in now because of her own foolish and irrational actions. However, she knew that she had caused her family a lot of pain even now. Yet she wanted to tell them how sorry she is for doing what she did, but words cannot take away the pain and dishonor that she inflicted upon them.
Shortly, she heard the door buzz and in stepped nurse Giselle.
She said. “Your family is here to see you and it is visiting

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