Lines of Salt in the House

Among Social Hurricane's other issues she suffers from hallucinatory episodes.  She's twenty years old,and she's seen the monster that lives in her closet.  When it's bad we occasionally have to repeat things because, while she heard us, she didn't know this was an instance where the voices were real.

The psychiatrist is willing to put her on antipsychotic medication but that has so many unpleasant side effects (plus we keep the pharmacy so busy already) that she chooses to deal with things with a container of salt.

See, SH knows this stuff's not real.  Knowing doesn't really help.  But if she puts down a line of salt on the floor the monsters can't cross that.  So there's a line of salt in front of her closet because that keeps the monster in and there's a line in front of her bedroom door because that way the terrors in the rest of the house can't get into her room.  It works for her.

We know it's been a bad night when we get up and there are various lines of salt in the hallway.

We just step over the lines.  If the Hurricane needs to put salt down, she needs to put salt down.  And Adored Wife makes sure she buys SH her own container of salt when she goes shopping so the Hurricane doesn't use up AW's cooking supplies.

SH also burns incense sometimes when things are bad because apparently the creatures don't like the scent and it helps to keep them away.  I don't like the scent either but if Social needs it I can put up with it.  Of course sometimes I think she just likes the incense herself and tells me she needs it for monster-repellent so I won't bug her about it.

We do reserve the right to kid her about the salt usage.  But not too much, because otherwise she might chase the monster out of her closet and into ours.

Hope all's well out there, friends, and God bless.