Bolt Risk
An audiobook of Chapter Six
After the "Not a Discharge Meeting" Family Meeting. Destiny has a one track mind, avoiding residential treatment. Residential treatment feels punitive to her. She doesn't understand that it's the only way her parents can retain custody of her and spend the last few years of her life with her. Instead she just feels like they are giving up on her and making her someone else's problem.
Things seem like they are about to look up when she is removed from Line of Sight Precautions and gets the privilege of sleeping in her room instead of a mattress on the floor of the dayroom, the ability to use the restroom with the door closed, and the right to take a shower without a femaie staff staring at her naked body the whole time. Things really seem like they are turning a corner when she earns Yellow level and the ability to go to off-unit groups that are in the building, but Destiny is incapable of staying with the group once she goes off unit. She is too much of a bolt risk.
Every time she goes off unit the voices start off and an ache and a pull in her muscles and she becomes convinced that if she just leaves the hospital once her entire mental illness and all her problems will be gone. It never works that way. What does happen, is a code yellow is called and every available psych unit staff and security guard comes running to her and restrains her to a stretcher to bring her back to the Quiet Room on the Child and Adolescent Unit.
If Destiny can't figure out how to return to the unit on her own two feet she can't even go to residential. She would have to go to a locked long term state hospital for kids. To find out what happens you will have to listen to this chapter.
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