it’s an insane thing.

[Caleb.]

name;
Salem Michaels.

nickname;
None.

gender;
Male.

appearance

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Salem has long, black hair that is cut in a sort of side sweep, but still covers his eyes, which are coloured a rich, hazel green. Due to his medical problems, of which there are many, Salem only weighs 105 pounds, which is quite drastic for a boy of seventeen. He can’t help it, however, that he has skizophrenia, paranoia, anorexia nervosa, suicidal tendancies, hallucenations, blackouts, and depression.

history // persona[/u];
Salem is moody. He suffers from manic depressive illness, anorexia nervosa, paranoia, schizophrenia, depression, hallucinations, and is also slightly suicidal. So you could say that he's a little fucked up in the head. Okay, more than a little. The boy's flipped his lid. Well, seeing what he's been put through, you would be, too. Let's see.

Salem was always moody, being brought up in a broken home, more or less. The bipolar disorder ran in his family, so it was obvious that he would get it, too. And he did. Oh yeah, he remembered the day - he was sitting in his room, playing guitar, when a string broke. Normally, he would have fixed it, but he'd been feeling strange. So, when it broke, he took the guitar and beat it against his wall that was covered in band posters. Bits and peices of the black and white guitar covered the floor for a long time after that.

Salem developed anorexia nervosa in a slightly different fashion. No, he didn't feel he was fat, which he wasn't, considering that before he started he weight 145 pounds, while now he weighs around 105. He was around thirteen and was choked on a Tylenol when his mother made him take it. She pretty much forced it down his throat. So, whenever it came time to eat, he wouldn't, and it just grew on him. He wouldn't want to eat what that woman cooked, anyway - it could have been roadkill, or even poisoned for all he knew.

The paranoia set in at about age fourteen, when he got his first girlfriend. The girl's boyfriend before him wasn't done with her, Salem guessed, so began to stalk him and give him threatening letters until he finally broke up with her. The schizophrenia, however, had been there long before - he was about four when he first showed signs of having split personalities. One is happy, nice, sensitive, caring, and so on, whilst the other - the one that inhabits his mind most of the time - is mean, sarcastic, suicidal, slightly shy and a tad rude.

The depression was caused by his best friend Jakey's death when he was twelve. It drove him insane and he almost cut himself, but he didn't because that was how Jakey had died. The hallucinations, more like nightmares that grew until he saw them when he was awake, came with the depression and will always be with him, for all the doctors can say. And all of his problems have caused suicidal tendancies to overpower his brain, making him black out. When he blacks out, he needs serious help, because he will do something close to sleepwalking - and try to kill himself in the process. If and whenever the other side of his personality shows up, it will normally be after he has a blackout, which happen about once or twice every three or four weeks.

Overall, he's pretty screwed up, huh? Yep, thought so. He was sent here by his mom, because she was tired of caring for him on her own, and because she couldn't afford all of the medication he was on. Not like he took it all the time, anyway.

reason[/u];
His mom couldn’t handle his medical problems anymore, and she couldn’t afford his medicine at that time, so she sent him here. As well as she hates him, he vandalized her car, and broke her antique glass plates.

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