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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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

Mental healing? May I ask what has happened, Zuko?

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...When the fog was really thick, a good friend of ours got... killed. And... dismembered.

Aang's been having... a hard time ever since.

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

How unfortunate. Is it depression?

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Ah. But perhaps Psychiatry is not a field of medical science in your world if you would request for "mental healing".

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I don't know... He's been really emotional, and he freaks out whenever someone tries to leave the house. He hallucinated recently too, and... he hasn't-- hadn't slept... in a long time.

...I've heard of it, but we have other types of healers too.

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

May I ask for specifics, Zuko? For example... how long has this been going on? A definition of "emotional" will be useful as well.

As much as I would like to give you quick answers, this field of Medicine is, shall we say, defined as soft Science, at best. Hasty judgments on my part may only lead to more complications for your friend. Long term ones, if I may add.

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Yeah...

Since Sokka's death. He... he found the body and... Um, that was about two and a half weeks ago. But with those creatures attacking, I think it made him even more nervous.

He's afraid someone else will get hurt and gets angry and upset when we try to even step out of the apartment. It's really frustrating. Also, he was having a lot of nightmares, and then gave up sleeping entirely for several days in a row.

Um... you think you can help? Long term complications?

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

[ Hi, this is me trying my best with what my poor brain can get from Wiki ;_; ...please uh... I hope it's okay. DX ]

While I am no psychiatrist, I suppose I can assume your friend is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It would be careless of me to diagnose from hearsay alone, of course. There are medications-- Ah, let me rephrase that. In my world, medication for which some symptoms of that can be helped with exist. Those medications must exist here as well.

But...

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

...but?

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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

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.

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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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[freundlichertod.livejournal.com]

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.