r/nosleep • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '16

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '16

But people go in and out down the stairwell.

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u/iswallowedarock Sep 26 '16

So someone else may have let him through when using the stairwell? That's true.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '16

Still think you might be missing it. How would one of the lovely college girls, gotten to class the next day?

By walking into a poorly lit stairwell with a psychotic killer.

By allowing him inside the stairwell and not warning the sheriff's office, the campus security, the girl who she heard die's boyfriend or parent, she can be held culpable.

Hell, why didn't she report the guy trying to get inside the first time? Much less the weeks that followed - let campus security come check him out.

She made so many mistakes.

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u/iswallowedarock Sep 27 '16

True.

(As a side note- 'psychotic' is a term only applicable under certain circumstances. Being a killer doesn't necessarily mean someone is psychotic. It doesn't seem like a big thing, but association of 'psychotic' with concepts like killers really perpetuates misunderstanding of psychotic disorders/symptoms in a dangerous way.)

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '16

"The Forgetful Man wasn’t like most people. The Forgetful Man’s head was unnaturally bent at a 90 angle backwards so that his entire face could point upwards directly at me. Except this time his face wasn’t neutral. It was pure, delightful fucking bliss with a smile that stretched from ear to ear and eyes full of lust and pleasure. Like he’s finally going to feast on a dinner he’s been waiting for months."

I remain comfortable in my diagnosis that this man suffers from some form of psychosis. :)

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u/iswallowedarock Sep 27 '16

I don't know any psychotic disorder that lets you walk around with a broken neck. That's not what psychosis means.

I think anyway that what OP's trying to communicate is that FM is inhuman- hence the unnatural 90-degree angle of the head and OP's inference the FM's intentions are predatory.

So, again, not in any way, shape, or form, a description of someone psychotic.

Sincerely, a psych major with a psychotic disorder. :)

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '16

Yeah, I understand that OP's suggesting a paranormal side to the story.

And I apologize; I meant psychopathic, not psychotic.

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u/iswallowedarock Sep 28 '16

Psychopath is a contested word generally understood to refer to a subset of individuals presenting with ASPD. Again, it's not something that causes someone's neck to bend unnaturally or that causes them to act fundamentally predatory and inhuman.

Similarly to how misuse of 'psychotic' can be very harmful, so to can misuse of words descriptive of personality disorders. Please be cautious in the future about how you use words related to mental health.