Do you think Lucas ever has any chimpouts in the laughing academy? or is he on his best behavior to get out as soon as possible. I'd like to think he's had a few in there at some point, but I guess the meds might keep him from causing a scene. Whatever the case, I get a kick out of picturing him REEEEE'ing because he thinks someone is trying to swoop whatever crazy zoomer chick he's hyper fixated on until they give him the nap-time napkin again and he wakes up in a straight jacket in a padded white room.
My intuition is that Lucas performs chimpouts arriving at the unit for the express purpose of scoring some type of benzo. If you are brought in by either Law Enforcement or some type EMS and demonstrate a certain level of agitation, they won’t hesitate to pop you with something to chill you out. If it is an urban unit with a higher volume of inpatient ragmen and detoxing addicts, they don’t want that Wern-energy to create a cascading effect on the other patients. The key to running a good mental health unit is maintaining a nice clam equilibrium and they wouldn’t let him fuck that up, especially if it is in the evening.
I imagine after Lucas is done being admitted and all the necessary information for his inprocess has been obtained, Lucas gets rewarded with the sweet embrace of diazepam to shut him down. Think of it as a short term reset button and while he is immobilized the antipsychotics get to work. When the diazepam wears off, he wouldn’t be able to work himself back up into hysterics again.
The upside of having psychiatrists and nurses on hand, chemical restraint is always an option and it is a much safer route than physical restraint for everyone involved. Agitated Normies are offered an oral administration of lorazepam, but someone like Lucas could merit an upgrade to an IM shot of diazepam. The nuclear option would be an IM shot of ketamine, in my area paramedics are even allowed to administer them, but the situation has to be pretty violent before they are considered. In any case, given Lucas’ size and his indigent lifestyle, they’ll just assume he engages in substance abuse and he might need something a bit stronger to shut him up.
At this point the docile Wern becomes a compliant patient who follows instructions but still manages to annoy every human being in the room. If there are any young female patients on the floor, Lucas will put himself in their proximity and will try to engage them when the opportunity presents itself. If that isn’t an option, he’ll turn his attention to any female staff sufficiently young enough for his tastes. He probably engages in a bunch of annoying behaviors in the pursuit of food as well, he won’t be happy with the diabetic friendly meals provided and he’ll be prowling for any kind of snack available; bananas and sugar free pudding will have to do.
Once it becomes clear that his appetite for female flesh and food won’t find satisfaction, he’ll probably resort to making some sort of game based around acquiring food and sex. He won’t fully participate in treatment, but he’ll do enough to avoid confrontation. Eventually he’ll start itching for freedom and the creature comforts he could purchase with that disability money and there will be a shift in the language he uses that staff can then use to justify his discharge.
His lack of housing will likely be the strongest factor that keeps him in there for any length of time, but there may not be anything that could be reasonably done for him on that front.