24 [voice/text] - Still not having a good time. Stupid Discedo.

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[the comm turns on to what seems to be the tail end of a rather exhausted sigh]

Sokka, Aang is freaking out over you and Katara living in a separate room. Maybe you guys should come visit.

Also...

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Does anyone here specialize in psychiatry or mental healing of any sort? A friend of mine isn't doing too well after some, uh, pretty bad stuff happened. Hohenheim, can you do anything like that?


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Did those pills of yours I used on Aang have side effects? He's developed a bad cough.

Also, how's this weekend for the... uh, whatever you call it. Attempted chip removal?

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[I'm sure your brain got more than my completely NOT science-inclined brain. :Db]

...but?

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I would not so hastily recommend the use of medications. Such things have lasting side effects and may foster dependency. In a place such as Discedo, a dependency on medication of which a steady supply over a long period of time cannot be guaranteed will certainly be... unfeasible.

[ pause as Muraki thinks. ]

Therapy would be a preferable treatment.

[ I AM NOT SCIENCE INCLINED BRAIN DESU ;; BRAIN IS BISHOUNEN-INCLINED :( ]

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Dependency? Like... addiction? What kind of medication could... lead to that?

[someone has no experience with medicine at all :| ]

Therapy... You could do that?

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

Any. Especially if it brings such instant results, such dependency is only to be expected. Even a simple sleeping pill can cause a patient to eventually lose the ability to sleep naturally through repeated use... [ pause ] Medications commonly dispensed by Psychiatrists have a more significant effect than these pills.

It isn't my field, Zuko. I have no such credentials for practicing Psychiatry. However, I have studied it... though not enough to be considered a specialist... and practiced lightly. If you have no other option, then I can do what I can.

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[There's a long and heavy silence before he finally manages, the words a little choked.]

H-how do you know... if it affected someone... badly?

So far you're the only one who's actually studied it... I don't know if I have other options...

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

[ Muraki is curious about that statement, he is silent for a moment. ]

Is that a question directed at the subject of medications, or the disorder your friend may be suffering from?

Can you convince him to come to the hospital, Zuko?

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Um... m-medications.

I can try.

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I think the symptoms can be quite obvious.

I will await him, then.

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Is... uh, is it normal to get sick? Like... coughing? But that's probably from the sleep deprivation.

[paranoid Zuko is paranoid]

Okay.

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

That would be abnormal.

[ Muraki just smirking at you, yo :'D ]

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Abnormal like... bad?

[Long pause, and then he takes a deep, steadying breath]

He wasn't sleeping and he was hallucinating and it was getting worse. I didn't know what else to do. I gave him some sleeping medicine but... I don't know if his sickness now is related... or just the sleep deprivation catching up to him. I didn't mean to make it worse.