Elizabeth did not understand people's obsessions with celebrities "amount of time people spent focusing on everything they did, like they were gods they worshipped instead of a human being like the rest of us."
Elizabeth was in bed for 7 days in hospital. She did not want to get in wheelchair, nurse said it was hospital rule. She figured "wheelchair trumped staying in the bed." After being transported to 5th floor, nurse indicated that she needed to take wheelchair back with her; she stood, felt dizzy.
7 days in hospital bed, one needs to learn how to walk again. I expected the young woman to fall on the floor, unable to stand up without support.
One character in the psych ward was rocking back and forth although not in a rocking chair. That belongs on my Homeless blog ~ one of my mental health issues, along with losing time in thoughts due to blank stare.
Another character "pulling hair out of her head, strand by strand, putting each strand in a neat pile on her pants." I added (bipolar) The lady had trichotillomania. Most do not make neat piles. They sniff the root touching it their upper lip, then if acceptable, bit on it before dropping it into messy pile on the floor.
Author accurately described cutters, suicide indention, outcome of childhood abuse or domestic violence. The only thing I know about psych wards is what I have seen portrayed on TV. This novel, was missing the lineup for pills, "show me your tongue," or however nurses check to make patient swallowed their meds.
There may have been a couple of schizophrenics, two men having animated conversations with invisible people. The man doing nothing but staring out the window might have severe case of PTSD (thousand yard stare.)
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