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  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 16 – Skepticism vs. Delusion

    The inability to distinguish between reality and imagination is called Delusional Disorder. There are different classifications. The Erotomanic type presents as delusions of love; a person with this type believes that another person is in love with him or her. The Persecutory type presents as delusions of imminent threats or harm; a person with this…

  • Gerry Caudle; Delusional Disorder – Eakran’s Experiments (One-Shots)

    The IBF basement is home to patients who undergo top secret experiments to provide workable cures or further insight into brain and mental disorders that plague portions of the population. There is a patient in the basement by the name of Gerry Caudle who has suffered from realistic delusions for much of his life. He…

  • The Black Side of Paradise 6. Aldous

    Aldous loved his new name. And he loved that other people judged him for using such a pompous sounding name that was so obviously a rip off of the writer Aldous Huxley. But he was in college and it was easy for him to adopt a new persona in a new city. Even though he…

  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 15 – Devotion

    “How can I help you?” Maria asks. She is excited at the idea that she could help Dr. Cousins who had been treating her like a threat since her arrival at the institute.  “What?” Cousins asks. “You said when you came that you needed my help. What can I help you with?” “Oh, right. I…

  • The Black Side of Paradise 5. Bradley (conclusion)

    What makes a man capable of empathy? Is it something that we acquire at birth? Or are there experiences in life that teach us that there is a benefit to acknowledging the feelings of other? Bradley was not a sociopath, or he had never been diagnosed as such, but all of his life he had…

  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 14 – Multilayered

    Dissociative personality disorder has its skeptics; those who refuse to believe what can’t be easily seen or proven, measured or quantified. Skeptics complain that a person could be pretending, simply adopting new personas on a whim for various motives. These skeptics bare a shocking resemblance to climate change deniers and conspiracy theorists who think that…

  • The Black Side of Paradise 4. Bradley

    If it’s true that a house can have a soul or a spirit, then the house Bradley inhabited after separation from his biological mother had a malevolent one that caused discomfort to most of the foster children who lived there over the years. Bradley did not experience this discomfort, and in fact, he felt a…

  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 13 – Maria

    It is true that we have dreams that we cannot recall. Some people claim to never have them, but there is no way to know if they are right. Maybe it is true that any time our bodies rest, our minds run wild through our subconscious, only, we are unable to remember those journeys and…

  • Made in America (Series 1) – Issue 12 – Magic in the Basement

    When Dr. Cousins walks into Eakran’s office and sits in front of Maria, he glances at her face as he flips through notes in a file. She is beautiful, he thinks, but no amount of beauty was worth compromising government secrets and he thinks about the careless security guard that had lost his job in…

  • Tommy Pine; Phantom Limbs – Eakran’s Experiments (One-Shots)

    Eakran’s patient, Tommy Pine, was a man who suffered pain in two phantom limbs. He had been at the IBF in Eakran’s basement for a couple months when Dr. Frederick Cousins and Dr. Donna Moss first transferred there from positions at the Mayo Clinic. Tommy lost his limbs in Iraq when he was stationed there…