Mental healthcare has taken strides over the last several decades. It was once common in the 1950’s to use electro-shock therapy, solitary confinement, straight jackets, and many other practices which have been deemed cruel and unhelpful to the patient. Although there is still room for improvement in modern psychiatric practices, we can at least be glad to receive modern healthcare over what was available in the 1950’s.
There are many, many, pictures on the internet of abandoned mental hospitals from this era. And in the basements you can find rooms showcasing these horrible practices. Rubble lies on the ground and paint peels off the walls in these facilities, as they have not been maintained in over 50 years.
What would it be like to fall asleep and wake up to a time period where your problems could be solved? In this story, you wake up in the basement of an abandoned mental hospital. Making your way up, you find that the top stories are being renovated. The place is being re-opened and used for modern mental healthcare practices.
This is a story inspired by the online videogame Notpron, which is a puzzle game taking a similar format to this epub. I also drew inspiration from the videogame Portal 2, in which you play as a lady making her way through an abandoned laboratory. The bottom stories of the laboratory tell you the dark secrets of the lab and what led to its destruction. As you make your way up, a lady named GLaDOS speaks to you over loudspeakers. Your own character is silent.