Summary Callie starts off in her therapist room and she is being questioned about her past and if she remembers any of it. Callie then falls into a flash back of a track meet in which she participated in. This is when she first thought of the idea of hurting her self. This was also the night that she couldn’t handle it any more and ended up cutting her self. Though she thinks about this and remembers it all she doesn’t speak. She can’t remember the day she stopped talking to anyone and everyone. Callie lives at “Sea Pines” (Sick minds the people that reside there call it) with the other girls like her self yet different. Everyone at Sea Pines has some sort of addiction drugs, alcohol, food eating disorders, self affliction, ect. All of the girls participate in and attend sessions like group, one on one, and a tutoring type of group that’s for school work and other things. Everyone talks to a little bit or some a lot but everyone does have friends. Callie doesn’t talk to anyone let alone her own family. They all go through the same routine everyday but once a month or so they let the families come in to visit them (most of them are teens or children). Callie goes in to another flash back of when her family visited and of when her brother played Connect Four. Out of everyone her brother doesn’t judge her at all and he doesn’t get bothered by Callie not talking. In fact Sam talks for Callie in a way like when he says want to play again and he knows she does he will ask then just say ok and reset the game for them to play again. One thing that Callie mentions through her thoughts is that she is only able to go to certain places. Any where else she needs and escort for safety precautions. They have a rank system in place so that some of the patients that are about to graduate are able to have a little more freedom and even become and escort. At night there is a lot of crying through out the whole facility. It’s not the workers it’s the patients that reside there. Callie sometimes lies awake at night and listens to them all and she can almost put the cries to the faces of the people she knows. As Callie’s therapist talks to her again like everyday, she doesn’t talk back once again. Her therapist tries everything to have Callie just talk to her but Callie doesn’t budge. Today her therapist tries something she hasn’t yet a form of reverse Psychology. She tells Callie that she thinks she is so strong, because she doesn’t talk at all. Callie’s therapist then says she must be tired from holding it all in all the pain, hurt, and anger. They sit there for a while but Callie still doesn’t talk and they sit there in silence. It doesn’t work yet again. Once a week they have a day called sheets exchange day. This is when all the patients’ line up and trade old sheets for new sheets this is because most of these are brand new and this keeps the facility clean and in neater condition. The girls start telling jokes about one of the techs chasing someone down cause they are leaving with a sheet; this causes Callie to laugh almost hysterically. Callie doesn’t like talking but she hates laughing in front f people more, so much that she will run down the hall and out a door and break rules just to make sure that no one hears her. Today someone new comes to Sea Pines it’s a new girl. She comes in and the group counselor has her sit by Callie because of her condition. They find out she’s a cutter to. The new girl cuts for a different reason though she looks at it as a form of body art and she can control it, But Callie is different she can’t and it controls her. Callie tries to control it but there are certain situations that she can’t and it just takes over and she is unable to help it.
Callie starts off in her therapist room and she is being questioned about her past and if she remembers any of it. Callie then falls into a flash back of a track meet in which she participated in. This is when she first thought of the idea of hurting her self. This was also the night that she couldn’t handle it any more and ended up cutting her self. Though she thinks about this and remembers it all she doesn’t speak. She can’t remember the day she stopped talking to anyone and everyone.
Callie lives at “Sea Pines” (Sick minds the people that reside there call it) with the other girls like her self yet different. Everyone at Sea Pines has some sort of addiction drugs, alcohol, food eating disorders, self affliction, ect. All of the girls participate in and attend sessions like group, one on one, and a tutoring type of group that’s for school work and other things. Everyone talks to a little bit or some a lot but everyone does have friends. Callie doesn’t talk to anyone let alone her own family. They all go through the same routine everyday but once a month or so they let the families come in to visit them (most of them are teens or children).
Callie goes in to another flash back of when her family visited and of when her brother played Connect Four. Out of everyone her brother doesn’t judge her at all and he doesn’t get bothered by Callie not talking. In fact Sam talks for Callie in a way like when he says want to play again and he knows she does he will ask then just say ok and reset the game for them to play again.
One thing that Callie mentions through her thoughts is that she is only able to go to certain places. Any where else she needs and escort for safety precautions. They have a rank system in place so that some of the patients that are about to graduate are able to have a little more freedom and even become and escort.
At night there is a lot of crying through out the whole facility. It’s not the workers it’s the patients that reside there. Callie sometimes lies awake at night and listens to them all and she can almost put the cries to the faces of the people she knows.
As Callie’s therapist talks to her again like everyday, she doesn’t talk back once again. Her therapist tries everything to have Callie just talk to her but Callie doesn’t budge. Today her therapist tries something she hasn’t yet a form of reverse Psychology. She tells Callie that she thinks she is so strong, because she doesn’t talk at all. Callie’s therapist then says she must be tired from holding it all in all the pain, hurt, and anger. They sit there for a while but Callie still doesn’t talk and they sit there in silence. It doesn’t work yet again.
Once a week they have a day called sheets exchange day. This is when all the patients’ line up and trade old sheets for new sheets this is because most of these are brand new and this keeps the facility clean and in neater condition. The girls start telling jokes about one of the techs chasing someone down cause they are leaving with a sheet; this causes Callie to laugh almost hysterically. Callie doesn’t like talking but she hates laughing in front f people more, so much that she will run down the hall and out a door and break rules just to make sure that no one hears her.
Today someone new comes to Sea Pines it’s a new girl. She comes in and the group counselor has her sit by Callie because of her condition. They find out she’s a cutter to. The new girl cuts for a different reason though she looks at it as a form of body art and she can control it, But Callie is different she can’t and it controls her. Callie tries to control it but there are certain situations that she can’t and it just takes over and she is unable to help it.