10/12/04-
I had my first session with Thomas Matthews today after his previous psychiatrist, Dr. Richards, went missing. Thomas wasn't very responsive to me in our session to day at all. Mostly he gave nods for yes and shook his head for no. When he did speak, though, he spoke in a very hushed tone. He seemed very torn up about his previous psychiatrist's dissaperance.
10/21/04-
Today Thomas and I tried using clay to express his emotions currently. He molded a horse, a pirate captain, and a bed with a little clay figure in it, but he wasn't done there. He molded a rectangle, and placed a sphere on top, and placed it next to the bed where the little clay figure was. Obviously this was supposed to be "Mr.Tall" watching him. I asked Thomas why he molded that, and he said, "Well, it's what happens every night, and I don't like it. I figured it showed how I feel.".
11/18/04-
Thomas showed some very good progress today. I was asking him about his day so far, and he interrupted me to tell me that he knows "Mr.Tall" is not real. He also told me that he wants my help to help him see that. I told him that together we could get him to see that.
12/9/04-
Thomas told me that my technique of him pretending that "Mr.Tall" wasn't there when he saw him at night was working, because, last night he wasn't there. Thomas has become more comfortable around me, and seems to trust me like had apparently trusted Dr. Richards. I'm glad that I'm making some progress with this boy.
12/17/04-
Thomas has been behaving more and more like a boy his age, and isn't showing many signs of mental illness anymore. Mostly we talk about past experiences Thomas has had on family vacations and things of the such. I think he'll be ready for release by New Year's Eve.
12/31/04-
Thomas was found with several symbols cut into his back this morning. His bed sheets, and pajamas were covered in blood. He's currently in the hospital.
1/5/05-
Thomas was released from the hospital today, and we will resume our sessions tomorrow. I honestly worry that there is some one tormenting this boy in this hospital, and is only feeding into Thomas' delusions. I've heard that this was the case with Dr.Richards when he was treating the boy. Apparently, while Richards was treating the boy, a security guard had been dressing up in a costume and abusing Thomas. I wonder if there are others who were involved with what that security guard was doing.
1/6/05-
Thomas wouldn't communicate with me at all during our session. He's regressed.
1/18/05-
Thomas finally said something to me today. "I told myself he wasn't there. I really did.". After he finished telling me this he began to cry. Police have been interrogating members of the staff. They couldn't get a good read on who attacked him since Thomas said that "Mr.Tall" did it.
2/5/05-
The police arrested the nurse who had been torturing Thomas. They found a black robe and mask in her house after they had seen that she scared Thomas. Thomas began to make progress with me before the incident New Year's Eve, why would she have stopped only to resume then?
3/8/05-
It's amazing how much Thomas has recovered since that nurse was fired. He's back where he was before the incident. We're even sharing past experiences again.
6/14/05-
Thomas was released just a few minutes ago. His parents were over joyed to have him coming home, and Thomas was happy to be going home. Though, he did tell me that he would miss me. I must say that I'll miss him as well. It's been nice to see someone recover from such horrible circumstances.
You got the time wrong, it was only 1 year.
-A Friend
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Dr. Richards' Notes 2/17/04-????
2/19/04-
Thomas calmed down since his incident two days ago, and I was able to have a session again with him today. When I asked him what had set him off he told me that he had seen "Mr.Tall" with what he described as tentacles waving all around him. He told me that he was afraid that "Mr.Tall" would grab him with the tentacles. He also told me that he could hear "Mr.Tall's" voice in his head. When I asked him what the voice sounded like, he said it was his own voice. I asked him what "Mr.Tall" had said to him, he told me that he told him that he was going to slaughter Thomas' entire family. And that Thomas would never be rid of him. Thomas began to cry at this point, so I spent the rest of our session comforting him.
3/12/04-
Thomas told me today that he dreamed that he was walking through a forest, where the trees told him to go deeper and deeper even though he didn't want to explore the forest. Thomas said that he reached the center of the forest and that"Mr.Tall" was there with his arms outstretched as if he wanted Thomas to hug him. . I asked Thomas what he thought it meant, he told me that "Mr.Tall" was trying to make him come to him. Thomas said that he was not the first child "Mr.Tall" had befriended. He said he had befriended many children and then..."Taken" them. I asked Thomas what this meant, but he just said that he "Took" them and they'd never come back over and over again. I'm worried that Thomas may never leave this place if I don't make anymore progress.
4/5/04-
Since Thomas only tells me of his dreams, what "Mr.Tall" has shown him, and when "Mr.Tall" appears to him, I decided to give Thomas a notebook to draw his dreams and the things "Mr.Tall" shows him. The moment I gave Thomas the notebook, he began to draw circles with X's in the middle of them. He would scribble so hard that he would at times rip the paper with his pencil. Thomas wouldn't speak to me after this point so I didn't make any progress.
4/14/04-
Thomas still won't talk to me and only scribbles in his notebook, when I asked to see the notebook, he handed it to me and the drawings were disturbing to say the least. After the first few pages with nothing but the symbols I mentioned previously, I saw what looked like "Mr.Tall" with a face, which I thought at first was odd because Thomas had always said that "Mr.Tall" had no face, but I noticed what looked like a small child with black where the face would be standing next to "Mr.Tall". It took me a moment, but I figured out that "Mr.Tall" was wearing the child's face. I turned to the next page and it was a forest with "Mr.Tall." being taller than all the trees standing in the middle of the forest. He had his arms out stretched like Thomas had described in his dream. The next page was black with a circle in the middle. I have no idea what that meant. The Next picture was a stick figure, who I would assume is Thomas, laying in a bed with "Mr.Tall" standing over him. Thomas told me he was scared after I finished looking through the notebook, I hugged him and told him that I would help him.
5/4/04-
I had to give Thomas a new note book today, he had filled his last one up with drawings. We talked about how we had thought that "Mr.Tall" was just a manifestation of Thomas' fear of the unknown. Thomas looked up from his note book and said, "That was before he hurt me.". I immediately asked to see where "Mr.Tall" had hurt him, and Thomas showed me his back. It was the same symbol that Thomas had been drawing carved into his back several times....one of them look like it had only just scabbed over. After that, I asked to have guards outside Thomas' room outside, and asked to see the security footage from Thomas' room. They said that they'd get the tapes to me soon.
5/5/04-
I got the tapes from security today, and just finished watching them. Every night at 12:00A.M. the video becomes completely distorted, and stays this way until 3:00A.M. Whenever it stops distorting, the video usually shows Thomas rocking back and fourth in the fetal posisition with blood on his back and his sheets. Why hasn't anyone brought up the fact that my patient has had blood on his sheets every morning? Something is going on here...
6/18/04-
Thomas won't talk to anyone, he only scribbles in his notebook. When I looked through it, I saw several photos of what looks like people in black robes with masks. One photo has Thomas curled up with them surrounding him. I think that someone here is torturing my patient. I'm going to be investigating this further.
7/13/04-
I came back to work at 12:00A.M. last night to see if I could find out what had been going on with Thomas at night. When I opened the door, I was horrified with what I saw. There was a man in a black robe kicking Thomas, who was curled up in a ball. The man turned and noticed me, pulled out a knife, and charged me. I fought him, and managed to rip the mask off of him, it was the guard who had been guarding Thomas' room! I knocked him out, and called the cops. They took him away, but I just found out that he killed himself on the way to the county jail. Thomas is at my house now, they needed to move him to investigate his room. He won't leave my side. I hope that I can help this boy now, and that he can go home soon.
8/1/04-
Thomas told me few days ago that the guard wasn't the only one of "Them". I asked him who "Them" were, but he said, "They're people with nothing left in their heads.". I can only assume that this means that that guard had others in on his sick fetish for torturing people mentally weaker than him.
9/14/04-
I saw him. Mr.Tall. He was standing in front of my house. I have no idea what I'm going to do. He wasn't here when I came back. Am I going mad? Have I gotten to close to my patient, and now I'm trying let myself into his mad world? Or is he actually watching me and Thomas? Did he really take those kids away and and and what if that child wasn't Thomas and was a child that he had "Taken"?
*I have no idea when he wrote this entry.-John*-
He's real. He attacked me today. I saw him standing outside my house, and not even a second after a tentacle broke through my window. He hit my arm, but it didn't feel like something blunt. I felt like a hot piece of metal cut my arm. I fell to the ground, and when I got up and looked around and saw him in my living room. I ran to the door and grabbed my keys. I started the car, and saw him standing at the front door. I backed out of my driveway, and when I turned my car to drive away, he was standing in the road. He had tentacles lashing out all around him. I sped up the car as fast as I could, and I swear I felt the impact. I kept driving, and when I looked out the rear-view mirror, I saw him still standing there watching me drive away. I'm in a hotel now.
I don't know when that last note was written, it wasn't in a manila folder like any of the others, and it was written on notebook paper. If "A Friend" had this note, could he be Dr.Richards? This raised more questions than gave answers. All I got from this was information about how Thomas Matthews disappeared, and that Advcate is apparently a member of something bigger. A cult like the one Damien's town was in? Is it possible that this town is as bad as that one? School starts again Tuesday, so me and Eric are going back to our dorm. I'm worried about what'll be there waiting for us, to be honest.-John
Thomas calmed down since his incident two days ago, and I was able to have a session again with him today. When I asked him what had set him off he told me that he had seen "Mr.Tall" with what he described as tentacles waving all around him. He told me that he was afraid that "Mr.Tall" would grab him with the tentacles. He also told me that he could hear "Mr.Tall's" voice in his head. When I asked him what the voice sounded like, he said it was his own voice. I asked him what "Mr.Tall" had said to him, he told me that he told him that he was going to slaughter Thomas' entire family. And that Thomas would never be rid of him. Thomas began to cry at this point, so I spent the rest of our session comforting him.
3/12/04-
Thomas told me today that he dreamed that he was walking through a forest, where the trees told him to go deeper and deeper even though he didn't want to explore the forest. Thomas said that he reached the center of the forest and that"Mr.Tall" was there with his arms outstretched as if he wanted Thomas to hug him. . I asked Thomas what he thought it meant, he told me that "Mr.Tall" was trying to make him come to him. Thomas said that he was not the first child "Mr.Tall" had befriended. He said he had befriended many children and then..."Taken" them. I asked Thomas what this meant, but he just said that he "Took" them and they'd never come back over and over again. I'm worried that Thomas may never leave this place if I don't make anymore progress.
4/5/04-
Since Thomas only tells me of his dreams, what "Mr.Tall" has shown him, and when "Mr.Tall" appears to him, I decided to give Thomas a notebook to draw his dreams and the things "Mr.Tall" shows him. The moment I gave Thomas the notebook, he began to draw circles with X's in the middle of them. He would scribble so hard that he would at times rip the paper with his pencil. Thomas wouldn't speak to me after this point so I didn't make any progress.
4/14/04-
Thomas still won't talk to me and only scribbles in his notebook, when I asked to see the notebook, he handed it to me and the drawings were disturbing to say the least. After the first few pages with nothing but the symbols I mentioned previously, I saw what looked like "Mr.Tall" with a face, which I thought at first was odd because Thomas had always said that "Mr.Tall" had no face, but I noticed what looked like a small child with black where the face would be standing next to "Mr.Tall". It took me a moment, but I figured out that "Mr.Tall" was wearing the child's face. I turned to the next page and it was a forest with "Mr.Tall." being taller than all the trees standing in the middle of the forest. He had his arms out stretched like Thomas had described in his dream. The next page was black with a circle in the middle. I have no idea what that meant. The Next picture was a stick figure, who I would assume is Thomas, laying in a bed with "Mr.Tall" standing over him. Thomas told me he was scared after I finished looking through the notebook, I hugged him and told him that I would help him.
5/4/04-
I had to give Thomas a new note book today, he had filled his last one up with drawings. We talked about how we had thought that "Mr.Tall" was just a manifestation of Thomas' fear of the unknown. Thomas looked up from his note book and said, "That was before he hurt me.". I immediately asked to see where "Mr.Tall" had hurt him, and Thomas showed me his back. It was the same symbol that Thomas had been drawing carved into his back several times....one of them look like it had only just scabbed over. After that, I asked to have guards outside Thomas' room outside, and asked to see the security footage from Thomas' room. They said that they'd get the tapes to me soon.
5/5/04-
I got the tapes from security today, and just finished watching them. Every night at 12:00A.M. the video becomes completely distorted, and stays this way until 3:00A.M. Whenever it stops distorting, the video usually shows Thomas rocking back and fourth in the fetal posisition with blood on his back and his sheets. Why hasn't anyone brought up the fact that my patient has had blood on his sheets every morning? Something is going on here...
6/18/04-
Thomas won't talk to anyone, he only scribbles in his notebook. When I looked through it, I saw several photos of what looks like people in black robes with masks. One photo has Thomas curled up with them surrounding him. I think that someone here is torturing my patient. I'm going to be investigating this further.
7/13/04-
I came back to work at 12:00A.M. last night to see if I could find out what had been going on with Thomas at night. When I opened the door, I was horrified with what I saw. There was a man in a black robe kicking Thomas, who was curled up in a ball. The man turned and noticed me, pulled out a knife, and charged me. I fought him, and managed to rip the mask off of him, it was the guard who had been guarding Thomas' room! I knocked him out, and called the cops. They took him away, but I just found out that he killed himself on the way to the county jail. Thomas is at my house now, they needed to move him to investigate his room. He won't leave my side. I hope that I can help this boy now, and that he can go home soon.
8/1/04-
Thomas told me few days ago that the guard wasn't the only one of "Them". I asked him who "Them" were, but he said, "They're people with nothing left in their heads.". I can only assume that this means that that guard had others in on his sick fetish for torturing people mentally weaker than him.
9/14/04-
I saw him. Mr.Tall. He was standing in front of my house. I have no idea what I'm going to do. He wasn't here when I came back. Am I going mad? Have I gotten to close to my patient, and now I'm trying let myself into his mad world? Or is he actually watching me and Thomas? Did he really take those kids away and and and what if that child wasn't Thomas and was a child that he had "Taken"?
*I have no idea when he wrote this entry.-John*-
He's real. He attacked me today. I saw him standing outside my house, and not even a second after a tentacle broke through my window. He hit my arm, but it didn't feel like something blunt. I felt like a hot piece of metal cut my arm. I fell to the ground, and when I got up and looked around and saw him in my living room. I ran to the door and grabbed my keys. I started the car, and saw him standing at the front door. I backed out of my driveway, and when I turned my car to drive away, he was standing in the road. He had tentacles lashing out all around him. I sped up the car as fast as I could, and I swear I felt the impact. I kept driving, and when I looked out the rear-view mirror, I saw him still standing there watching me drive away. I'm in a hotel now.
I don't know when that last note was written, it wasn't in a manila folder like any of the others, and it was written on notebook paper. If "A Friend" had this note, could he be Dr.Richards? This raised more questions than gave answers. All I got from this was information about how Thomas Matthews disappeared, and that Advcate is apparently a member of something bigger. A cult like the one Damien's town was in? Is it possible that this town is as bad as that one? School starts again Tuesday, so me and Eric are going back to our dorm. I'm worried about what'll be there waiting for us, to be honest.-John
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