![]() ![]() ![]() They bond over music, humor, and sarcasm but genuine therapeutic relationship and concern allows Jennifer to grow and be true to her goals. It is her secondary nurse, Chuck, who seems to reach her. ![]() Jennifer’s assigned primary nurse - has been nick named Nurse Ratched after the infamous psychiatric nurse from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." Jennifer feels she might have made a huge mistake - she is stuck with a hostile roommate, bland room, girls in denial, nurses who are super tough and suspicious about everything. Her imagined exclusive private room with beautiful furnishings, massages, beautifully frail patients, kind and accepting medical staff are shattered within the first five minutes of her arrival. ![]() Jennifer has unrealistic expectations about what a stay at a treatment center will be like. It is only when Jennifer is evaluated at the Samuel Tuke Center and admitted into their eating disorder program that her family starts their therapeutic journey as well. They feel that her plea to be admitted into a treatment center is just another one of her attention-seeking behaviors. Jennifer confronts her family about her illness and destructive behavior but her parents are in denial. Johnson is a novel in poetry and verse about 15-year-old Jennifer and her journey through treatment and self-actualization as she faces “the monster” within. ![]()
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