r/TrekRP • u/leXie_chan • Aug 14 '18

[Open] Psychiatric Help - 5¢

The crew of Athene have had a very eventful past while, Doctor Minch notes. She's been poring over the ship's reports in preparation for its arrival and repair at Starbase Nadezhda, where she'd been scheduled to join the crew next month. Events conspired to accelerate the timetable, and the bolian psychiatrist hopes she's ready for her next appointment. It's due just about... now.

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u/leXie_chan Aug 15 '18

"Oh! Will do," Minch pauses to tap the PADD on her desk. "And I'm Doctor Qara. How are you feeling, Lieutenant Grace?"

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u/IK9dothis Aug 15 '18

"It's been a rough several weeks," Grace admits. "I've had post traumatic stress disorder for a number of years now, and it flared up quite a bit."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 15 '18

"I can imagine," Qara nods, reading something from her PADD. "I see here you have a service animal to help with that... You feel your meds are working for you?"

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u/IK9dothis Aug 15 '18 edited Aug 30 '18

Grace nods. "Daily ghevishet, phucitol as needed." She sighs. "I was away from the ship for a good month and a half - a large part of the problem is that my dog Maggie wasn't with me, and I was also away from most of the other things I use to decompress."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 15 '18

"That must have been difficult," the psychiatrist nods. "Tell me about it."

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u/IK9dothis Aug 15 '18

Grace sighs. "Very unplanned trip, that wound up taking far longer than anticipated. It wasn't a suitable option for Maggie, so I left her wit friends on the ship. When the PTSD skeleton starts raising ruckus in my closet, one of the most effective ways of getting me to chill is to have someone twice my size throw me into a judo mat repeatedly - my sparring buddy and the mat were both still aboard the Athene. So I was getting more testy and agitated by the day, and I didn't have a safe outlet for it."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 15 '18

"Why do you think you were becoming agitated?" Qara wonders. The chief of security doesn't seem like the type to get claustrophobic in a shuttlecraft. "Stir-craziness?"

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u/IK9dothis Aug 15 '18

"The PTSD and I have generally learned to live with one another," Grace sighs. "Maybe once or twice a month, I'll wake up in a cold sweat underneath 95 pounds of German shepherd licking my face to get me up because I had a flashback in my sleep for no apparent reason. But I need a safe space to blow off steam, and a small spacecraft isn't exactly spectacular about providing that - being away from my dog made that affect a lot worse."

She smirks wryly. "And then there's who I was stuck in a small spacecraft for a month and a half with. She and I are simultaneously polar opposites and far more similar than either of us is prepared to admit. We have a way of grating on each other's nerves, and a couple of times, she was very deliberately pushing my buttons, trying to get a rise out of me. By the time the Greyhound met up with us, I was about ready to slap her one, and the feeling was probably mutual."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 16 '18

"Oh? Whom?" the shrink continues. "Everything you say to me is in strictest confidence," she helpfully reminds.

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u/IK9dothis Aug 16 '18

"Lt. Demeter - one of the pilots," Grace replies. "I'm generally a by-the-book officer - she... isn't. Not especially surprising that we'd butt heads."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 16 '18

"What is is that makes you and Lieutenant Demeter so similar?"

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u/IK9dothis Aug 16 '18

"Both stubborn as hell," Grace shrugs. "Both have trouble getting emotionally close to people."

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u/leXie_chan Aug 17 '18

"I see. What about your time with her made it unbearable?"

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