The Slaughter By Paul Sheldon Summary

Paul Sheldon, a romance author, gets into a car accident and is abducted by a woman. This woman, Annie Wilkes, is a nurse who lives alone in a house on a mountain. Paul wakes up bedridden with broken legs and dislocated shoulder, wondering where he's at. Paul correctly guesses that Annie Wilkes is his number one fan. Annie is a nurse who tells Paul that she will take care of him as long as he continues to write the Misery novels for her. She gives him pain killers which he becomes addicted to. Annie insists that Misery is brought back to life and that is when Paul realizes Annie has a psychological disorder. She lashes out at Paul when he doesn't want to write the novels as he had already killed off the main character of the novel. Paul tries
He finishes the chapter and asks Annie to bring two glasses. While she is out of the room, he takes the chapter from the typewriter and sets it on fire after calling her back to the room. She begs him to stop and tackles him and they wrestle. He ends up killing her by slamming her head with a pig statue and she dies on top of him. He is seen sixteen months later, walking with a cane, and imagines seeing her in the waitress as she approaches him. Annie Wilkes suffers from psychological delusions and bipolar disorder with schizoid, as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder. With bipolar disorder, Annie shows that she has no control over her mood swings and can go from calm to rage filled in seconds. With schizoid, Annie is detached from society and chooses not to interact with the outside world as shown by her phone being disconnected. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is shown by how Annie has everything neatly arranged in everything she does. Treatment for bipolar disorder usually consists of at least two forms of medication and psychotherapy. The drugs are usually anti-psychotics and mood stabilizers. Schizoid treatments consist of psychotherapy and group therapy. The two main treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder is psychotherapy and