Jack is very sensitive to what people around him say. Certain topics can bring back memories of his past or deceive him in some way. He may start banging himself off the walls or start screaming. Then matters get worse when everyone rushes to him or, as he would describe, at him. He usually runs from the very people who try to help him, but they always find him and make him even more uptight when t

Jack does not like needles. They scare him so much that he sees illusions of them coming after him. When he is curled up in a corner with his hands covering his neck as he whispers to himself, the staff knows they should not bother him. However, they do what they think is best; they try to comfort him and tell him everything will be all right and that what he sees is not real.

What is Jack living for other than dying? He is living to exist in his nightmare world and to be a reason to pay his caretakers. A sanitarium is a place for people like Jack, but is it totally a place of rehabilitation? For Jack, it is only a jail. Convicts in real jails are allowed to roam around and participate in certain activities, and Jack can do these things too. Convicts are imprisoned in a room sealed with steel bars. Jack is imprisone

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