Double Delusions
Arriving at the restaurant Susie looked at the umbrellas. She climbed up on the fencing and tried to figure out the code. The code which would save her life. She sat for hours in thought until she heard the familiar voice of her wife Emily.
“Come down darling. It’ll be ok.”
She’s with them. They have got to her too.
“Don’t come any closer.”
Emily held back tears. It had been like this for as long as she knew Susie. But she still hoped against hope that she could help Susie in the way everyone else failed to do before.
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If only she could really rescue her.
Thank you for reading Alice. 🙂
Reminded me of the movie ” a beautiful mind’. Anything to do with it?
I haven’t seen the movie but I Googled it there & it definitely has similarities especially in the subject matter.
Thank you so much for reading Priya. 🙂
What happened to Susie? Why doesn’t she want Emily to come any closer? They have got whom?
Susie is suffering from paranoia. She thinks that people who she comes across in her life are out to kill or harm her and when anyone including Emily tries to bring her out of those thoughts she thinks that Emily or whoever it may be in any situation is out to hurt her.
Thank you so much for reading Abhijit. 🙂
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they aren’t after you…
Thank you so much for reading Iain. 🙂
Looks like Susie is battling demons of her own. Nice one.
Thank you so much for reading Subroto. 🙂
If Emily is the last one standing I hope she gets that code figured out. Reminds me of a “Bodysnatchers” type scenario.
Thank you so much for reading Ali. 🙂
Oh the fears of a delusional mind. Emily is a rock, but for how long? One has to be very strong to deal with people with delusions. Sad affair!
Thank you so much for reading Anshu. 🙂
You write this with insight and empathy. A lay person can’t cure irrational fear; professional help may do, depending on the cause. Susie is lucky to have Emily as her wife.
Thank you so much for reading Penny. 🙂
Dear Lisa,
It’s not easy to stand by a delusional person. Good for Emily. But she might need help. Good one.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thank you for reading Rochelle. 🙂
You write a great deal of empathy for Susie and Emily, poignantly highlighting the challenge of Susie’s illness- Emily desperately wanting to help and knowing her help wasn’t enough. Movingly told Lisa.
Thank you so much for reading. 🙂
How very sad; but you have written hope into the relationship. There is always hope.
Thank you so much for reading Linda. 🙂
So difficult to live with such paranoia for both of them.
Thank you so much for reading Dale. 🙂
Living with paranoia is difficult. But, I doubt Emily could ever help her. Nice take.
Thank you for reading. 🙂
With any luck, she will get the help she needs. Such a sad situation sprinkled with a dash of hope.
Thank you for reading. 🙂
This reminds me of the movie, “A Beautiful Mind,” about a nobel prize winner in Economics ir Math, who has schizophrenia. The main character seeks a secret code, too, that only he can see, and isolates himself in his paranoia.
She may need to rely on more than her own abilities and caring to pull her wife down from the rafters, so to speak, even if those resources have failed to help in the past. Fortunately, treatments are more humane these days.
She definitely does need to get extra help for her wife even if it hurts her that she’d get that outside help.
Thank you for reading. 🙂
Not easy when your mind has locked onto something… of course there is no other code than to let yourself be taken care of.
Thank you for reading. 🙂
Like Penny, I feel Susie is very luck to have Emily. Sad, realistic story.
Thank you for reading Jilly. 🙂