Mental Care Institution

Mental Care Institution — by Jim Adams

The psychiatric hospital was secluded away on the edge of a lake surrounded by hills. An old castle was converted into this state of the art insane asylum. Dr. Joseph B. Strange was the director of this mental facility and he believed in treating all the patients with cannabis, till they developed acatalepsy. He thought that since human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability, that treatment should go no further than to appear as being a therapy and verisimilitude was acceptable, as long as the patients were happy. The only bad side effect of using the cannabis seemed to be the irrational disorder known as eleutheromania that certain long term patients developed. These patients that craved their freedom would try to escape every now and then saying that when they thought they were being followed by a moon shadow, so they didn’t like being cooped up.

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