Snow's Isolation: A Short Story

Snow became extremely isolated in the institution and increasingly began to feel empty, inducing her condition to worsen. Snow kept a diary under her pillow as a way to cope with her loneliness. The diary described the atmosphere and the terrors she underwent every day in mental institution hoping that her father would one day find it and come save her. She hated the medications the doctors gave her because they made her constipated and caused her to gain a lot of weight, so she decided to stop taking them. She’d hide her medications in a hole she had found once when befriended a hungry white mouse. A month in the institution had passed already and Snow started to hear voices that intensified as she stopped taking her medications, blurring
Snow became largely guarded and secluded from others as her paranoia delusions about the staff rapidly intensified. The first voice informed her, “the staff is plotting a plan against you, and they want to take you
The fourth voice told her that she had to kill anyone who brought harm her way, “you must kill your stepmother, she sent you away. The staff is trying to hurt you, hurt them before they get you”. The fifth voice Snow heard was when she would sleep at night, it would tell her, “ you’re disgusting and no one wants you”, causing Snow to feel lonely and grow envious towards her appearance that she was once so fond of. The sixth voice appeared when Snow would stare at her reflection in bathroom’s dark mirror, telling her “ kill yourself, bring yourself to god because he’s the only one who loves you and everyone else has forgotten about you”. One night, Snow heard the seventh voice, it was a woman’s voice crying helplessly. Snow was confused and curious as the voice cried and chanted her name, “ I’m sorry Snow. I love you. They took you away from me, I never wanted to leave you”, Snow was unaware if the voice was real or just her imagination as the nurses always told her that all the voices she heard were pure fragments of her