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NOTE: I had to put an * in the word trans*cript because evidently the bots which check the story forbid the use of the word s*cript.

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People may wonder why the chief of the Psychiatric Department of a major hospital like Winterfield has posted a case log online. Let me assure you, the reason will become clear in time. – – – Dr. Vivian Sanders

Case Log WH-Sanders-2019-3793, Entry One, 20161030

I’m not sure where to begin. This isn’t my case, the patient– I mean client– isn’t one of mine. It’s not even a referral. A colleague came to me for help and guidance. I will refer to her as Doctor Kelly. That is not her name. Ethics require that logs such as this be anonymous except for a patient’s name, but technically, neither she, nor the man in question, is a patient or client of mine so I will use pseudonyms. Should her name be needed for some reason, it is cross-referenced in my contacts on my personal phone. I am making sure there is a complete chain of information because there are legal aspects to this record. Specifically, Doctor Kelley thinks that this might be related to the “Pajama Poser Abductor.”

I asked her if she thought that her client was the Poser and she said no. I asked if he said or did anything that indicated that he thought that someone was in danger and she said, “Sort of.” That’s when she gave me his name and case file number. Then she started crying, something that I hadn’t seen her do in all the years I have known her.

Her tears told me that there was something very wrong with this whole situation. The new mandatory reporter laws specifically state that when a licensed therapist becomes aware that their client has a high likelihood of harming themselves or others, it must be reported to an ethics panel. If the threat is deemed credible, then authorities– meaning the police– are contacted. I am on the ethics panel and that is one of the reasons Dr Kelly came to me more or less informally.

She doesn’t want to go officially to the ethics panel. She says this situation doesn’t meet that criteria, but something about it still bothers her… and me. She felt that she needed to talk to someone, and I feel that I need to document in real time what is occurring. I have registered this log as one of my cases and it has been assigned the designation 2019-3793. Doctor Kelly shall be considered the direct client for the purposes of this case log. Her patient will be considered an affiliated client whom I shall call Dave. Again that is not his real name, but it simplifies references and his true name and case numbers are cross referenced in my contacts should they be needed.

Case Log WH-Sanders-2019-3793, Entry Two 20191106

Doctor Kelly has given me the trans*cript of her first session with Dave. I am inserting the relevant portion of it here without comment.

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Dr Kelly: Why don’t you start at the beginning.

Dave: It all started when my girlfriend, Courtney, started having these nightmares… but she said they weren’t nightmares, they were real, and that her friend Haley had infected her. She didn’t want to say anything because she was afraid that she would infect me by telling me about them. Evidently she thought that’s how Haley had infected her. Haley had told her about what was happening to her… and about the “Night Things.”

I asked her why she called them that and she became almost hysterical, yelling at me, “That’s their name!” Then she started crying hysterically and flapped her arms at me signaling me that I should sit down and be quiet.