#Chapter 100: Stockholm Syndrome

Nina “I’m ready to cooperate with my treatment.” A smile spread across Edward’s face at my words. “I’m so glad, Nina,” he said, giving my hand a squeeze. “Shall we begin?” I nodded. “Repeat after me…” … Over the course of the next several treatment sessions, Edward’s treatment began to work. Slowly but surely, my ‘memories’ of the university, of Lori and Jessica, Tiffany and James, Enzo and everyone else who I had created in my mind, started to become foggy. I slowly began to learn that I had been having these hallucinations and delusions for a long time, which was why my loving mother sent me to Mountainview Psychiatric Facility. I had been there for four years, but was stuck inside of a fantasy in my head that Edward couldn’t get me out of. My electroshock therapy must have freed my mind from this fantasy just enough for his treatment to work, he said. I was so grateful for Edward; soon, I would be home with my family. I would be fixed. Just