Summary: So far Craig has been talking more and more about his problems and we are able to see the roots and the beginning of his downfall. He opens up more once he has checked himself into the hospital and reminisces about how he worries that being "this way" has affected him and wishes that he would just get better and move on to becoming successful. He starts to feel better and feels good knowing that the hospital will help him. After talking with Dr.Barney about his family and the strong support from his sister, Dr. Barney even admitted to himself being depressed and when asked how he become successful and most importantly better, he told Craig that he helped himself by taking the medications and seeking help. Craig felt more confident and even admitted to the fact that he knew he wasn't crazy and that he just needed help, which showed the transition from being down on himself to actually believing that he could help himself and fight this depression. After settling in the hospital and getting papers signed and calling his mother to tell her the news, Craig meets Bobby, one of the adult patients there, and instantly they become friends. Bobby gives him a tour of the place and lets him in on the kinds of things they do there and his personal reflection on the treatment towards patients. Craig also has a chance to meet his new roommate Muqtada, although they did not get along well, due to the fact that he sleeps/lies in his bed all day did not affect Craig much at all. At Lunch Craig gets more situated and talks to more of the men about his reason for being here and is even invited to sit down with some of the girls which got him a little excited because he had a small thing for a girl named Noelle. As his time moves slowly Craig starts to get use to everyone and their "conditions" as well as their habits and faces them as if they were easy homework problems. He isn't quite used to the whole mental institution life and is a little ashamed because he thought that his friends would judge him and think that he was crazy. Slowly Craig is starting to develop, for the 5 days that he has here, they're going to make sure that he does and that he does not try to drift away from the main focus, and that's getting him better and stable.
Quote: " If you had to take insulin and you stopped, and you were taken to the hospital, wouldn't that make sense?" (Vizzini 240)
Reaction: This quote makes a lot of sense because it was said to Craig by Dr. Mahmoud as Craig argues about the hospital not being the right place for him. He feels that he does not belong and has second thoughts about his condition and does not feel that this is the way that it should be cured. However, Dr. Mahmoud comes back at him and lets him know that the hospital is her to help and it is not here to cure you, but to make you stable again. However, Craig still does not seem to be convinced and turns on to his depression again and tries to convince Dr. Mahmoud that depression is like a stage in life and that it is something you have to deal with; that it was "one way of coping with the world" (Vizzini 240). This shocked me because Craig was going back to his old self and looking at being miserable as a way to live and to just handle all of the crazy things that go on in the world. To me it seemed like he was drifting away from the main concern and that was the fact that he wanted to kill himself. Craig was being controlled by the condition he was in and judged almost everyone in the room except for looking at himself and actually seeing that he does relate to half the people in the room. Instead of doing that he's doubting himself and his wise decision for checking himself into the hospital and seeking help for himself.
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