Henry's Journal

Sunday, September 28, 2012

LOG: Facebook chat between Henry & his sister Chris.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

LOG: Phone Conversation between Henry & Dr. Katherine Davis, PHD.

• Dr. Kate: Hello?
• Henry: Dr. Kate. It's Henry.
• Dr. Kate: Henry? Why are you calling me? It's almost four in the morning.
• Henry: Oh. Sorry, I forgot about the time difference over there.
• Dr. Kate: So you think it's fine for you to call me at one in the morning then? Wait, nevermind. I'm not your doctor. Actually I still have that restraining order.
• Henry: I think I might be going crazy.
• Dr. Kate: You think? Have you recently attacked any other psychiatrists or their employees?
• Henry: I'm serious. Something is really wrong. I'm kinda fucked up.
• Dr. Kate: Are you drunk Henry?
• Henry: No. Dead sober. There was a party the other night and there was a wolf attack. People died.
• Dr. Kate: <silence> I saw that on the news. Wow. Henry. It never occurred to me that you might have been there.
• Henry: I got bitten pretty bad. Or at least I thought I was. I woke up the next morning and I was fine. My shirt was slashed up and bloody where it had bitten me, but there wasn't any wounds - no scars. Nothing.
• Dr. Kate: <sighs> Alright Henry. But I'm charging your Mom for this call. Tell me everything.

Henry proceeded to fill Dr. K. Davis in on the details of the UA wolf attacks of Saturday, September 27, 2012.  
 See attached folio for relevant news clippings & medical reports.

• Henry: Since then things have been. Off. Strange. I've been...sensing things. Like my senses have been turned up to 11. I can hear conversations rooms away and I can smell things. Like, not smells, like food - but...emotions. My cat is terrified of me. And everything and everyone is just pissing me the fuck off - like worse than before. I've been keeping to myself, going to classes and then going back home and locking myself in. I just want to...fucking strangle everyone I see.
• Dr. Kate: Henry. You really need to talk with someone. Someone local. This is serious. Are you still on your meds? I can look up doctors in your area and send you a reference. Don't bother with the campus counselor, they're generally useless quacks with associates degrees.
• Henry: No, I stopped taking the meds a year or so ago when I was going to school in Texas. I've been doing really well. Things have been pretty awesome...until now. I beat up a guy I like today. He came over to bitch at me about abandoning him at lab. I snapped, everything got hazy. I was doing all I could to keep my temper in check, doing the mental games you taught me. But then he punched me and...well, I lost myself for a moment. The next thing I know he was sprawled on the floor.
• Dr. Kate: Is he okay?
• Henry: Aye. He was just shaken up a bit. I helped him up, apologized and ran back to the sanctuary of my room. He yelled at me through the door that I'd better show up at lab. I took out my frustration on my bean bag chair.
• Dr. Kate: You go through so much furniture. At least your friend seemed to take your assault relatively well. Sounds like a keeper.
• Henry: Heh. Yeah. He's kind of an ass hole. But he's growing on me. <sigh> I can't go through this again. It's like...that time.
• Dr. Kate: The Arby's Incident.
• Henry: Yeah. But this time it's just hovering over my head like a black cloud that wont go away. Threatening to come down on me at any moment.
• Dr. Kate: Henry, this is a serious matter. I can't make you do it, but I urge that you start regular sessions again. And you really need to be back on your meds. Just please do not attack whoever the poor soul I end up sending you to. That would reflect poorly on me.
• Henry: I know. I'm sorry Dr. Kate. How is Janice?
• Dr. Kate: She quit after you broke her nose.
• Henry: Sorry.
• Dr. Kate: You should be! And if you are, do as I say and get some help. Also, don't call me at four in the fucking morning again.
• Henry: Sorry.
• Dr. Kate: There it is again. Don't apologize. Do something about it instead. At least you're not screaming profanities at me. Progress at last.
• Henry: <chuckle> You're still kind of a bitch.
• Dr. Kate: It's the only way to get through to some people. That's why they pay me the big bucks.
• Henry: Tell mom I say hello.
• Dr. Kate: I will when I send her your bill.
• Henry: And thanks for listening.
• Dr. Kate: Good night Henry. I'll email you a list of references tomorrow.
• Henry: Night.

Friday, October 5, 2012

LOG:  Dr. Emma "TigerLily" Tate, ND.'s Session Notes on Henry Mulgrew

Henry is a fascinating new patient of mine. He explained that he has been coping with extreme bouts of anger. His prior physician had diagnosed him as suffering from intermittent explosive disorder (IED) and mild schizophrenia, though I believe that these are simply modern physician tropes that merely state the symptoms of problems rather than the problems themselves, thus is the failure of modern medicine.

I believe that Henry's spiritual balance is askew and that his carnal self has been allowed to grow to be far more powerful than his spiritual and mental selves. He personifies his anger as a "werewolf", which clearly shows exactly how creative he truly is.

Henry says he had been isolating himself from others around him, focusing himself entirely on his professional and academic requirements and otherwise only playing video games alone, which explains why his psionic chi was becoming more and more off balanced, as the toxic psionic energies that televisions and other modern devices radiate are pure poison to the souls.

He says that his anger and discontent continued to grow stronger and that all he could feel towards the outside world was rage and agitation. He explained to me how his cat had been avoiding him, that is clearly because animals, being pure spirits, are naturally psionicists and his cat could sense his imbalance and that his carnal self was taking control, so the feline was keeping distance and likely spending time astrally projecting, seeking the minds of others, to summon them to Henry's aid. This clearly worked, as Henry stated that his friend, Thomas, had suddenly appeared and wanted Henry to join him and others for a gathering of social interaction. Another boy, Reece, who I believe to be a psychic vampire that feeds off of negative energy as he only ever seems to be present in Henry's sphere when dark humors are present, had been hovering, so Henry decided to leave the vampire boy behind and go with Thomas, who I believe was the one Henry's cat had called out to.

Others were also clearly contacted and drawn together, likely by other concerned psionic animals. Henry says that he arrived to find Ms. Jalo, Dr. Lichfield and his friend Warner present. Dr. Lichfield is clearly a wise woman who is in tune with the true world, as she recognized the "werewolf" in each of them, except for Thomas, who I believe may be a natural empath attuned to the greater music of the universe, thus his role in bringing them all together. Ms. Jalo, Warner and Henry had all been dealing with similar imbalances, causing their personal "werewolves" to rise to the surface. They had a good long chat with each other, relating their experiences and finding solace and comfort with one another.

As I would expect, Henry stated that his cat began to come around afterwards and the dark boy Reece's presence seemed to fade. Unfortunately Ms. Jalo had lost her way on her path of harmony and allowed her "werewolf" to take over. As is the nature of such negative spiritual entities, she had been drawn straight to the lair of the vampire, Reece. Henry attempted to calm her down and cleanse her dark energies by grounding her with cold water. I've never considered using the healing potential of water to ground out carnal energies, I will have to bring that up at the next gathering of the Coven of the True Light. Sadly, her beast had gained too much control of her and he said he could see it manifesting upon her, using wolf imagery to describe how he felt her eyes had begun to glow green and that she had gained a spiritual mien of claws and fangs, like a wolf.

Henry stated that she had tried to attack him, but that he instead embraced her and held her, pouring his love and calming energy into her until she stopped struggling (although to hear him tell it one would think he'd tackled and held her down until she stopped breathing). He pulled her into the shower with him and allowed the water to cleanse the "werewolf" from them.

Henry finished up our last session discussing one of his work evenings at the Wet Dog Cafe. Several of his friends were in attendance, including Thomas - obviously drawn to where the universe needed him to be, Dr. Lichfield and her "sidekick" Avery, his friend "Snips", and his friend Jace that he seems to enjoy speaking of with some frequency in our sessions, though he denies (too insistently I think) any serious feelings for the young man.

Henry says that Dr. Lichfield seemed to have received some startling news, though from his stories of her, she seems to always be either obsessive or startled. And that she had stepped outside and was accosted by a young man named Victor, who had berated her about her presence at an upcoming excavation of a Native American burial site. His friend Rene, who had taken some time off to be with her family recently following the tragic wolf attack in the forest near campus, had returned to campus and after giving Henry a quick hug was drawn to Thomas' balanced aura at the restaurant to discuss the condition of a mutual friend who had also fared poorly in the wolf attack (though better than many given that he lived).

This concludes our latest session. I very much look forward to our next one.

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LOG:  Henry's Journal

Dr. TigerLily insists that I keep a journal. So here, I have a journal. Midterms are coming up soon. I've been trying to focus on studying in my spare time. Trying to keep focused with everything that's been going on has been difficult. Everything and everyone gets under my skin so much easier than before, it's difficult to block out a lot of times, especially when I'm crossing through campus - I can smell the anxiety of everyone under the pressure of midterm crunch, smells like fear - smells like prey. Ugh.

Jace has been unusually on edge as well, and I can tell it's not about school. He's a very private person, so I'd avoided saying anything, but decided to risk his derision and casually offered a friendly ear, he said that he'd prefer to focus on studying for now. All good. I let it be. We were studying in the ATO study hall when Renee showed up. She was asking if we'd seen Jerome. I'd not seen him since the bonfire myself, but I know he'd been around. He's a friend of Warner's, so I texted and asked if he'd seen him. Warner said that he had been unusually absent for a while. Renee looked worried and said that she'd not been able to get in touch with him for the past week and that he'd not been to his classes. Jace set his book down and stared at us, looking very serious. He said that maybe it was time that we have that talk now after all. That's not grim at all.

Jace makes a couple of calls and we head into my room. A little bit later, Thomas and Davis showed up. Davis looked extremely nervous, as if Jace had invited to some sort of surprise orgy or something. Jace told us about his friend Harris, that he'd gone missing. Add to that Jerome, Hand-Job and now Reece (although I'm pretty sure I know why Reece ran off, but I didn't share that). Jace is concerned, most of these were people taken to the hospital after the bonfire. His friend Harris had withdrawn, but never claimed his stuff, his parents didn't know anything about it, nor had he returned home. Jace and I decide to head over to Harris' dorm and check out his room and talk to the RA to see if they can shed any light on the subject. The RA wasn't much help at all. All he managed to do was piss Jace off by claiming Harris was into some "shady online stuff". Jace is kinda hot when he's angry. I remember thinking that when we were fighting that time. Aaarhg. Bad thought. Bad.

WIP - TO BE CONTINUED