Ep. 49 | Hunger Games

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A college student’s return to school is cut short when she starts acting erratically and has to be committed to a psychiatric hospital. As she continues to spiral out of control, her parents worry that their daughter will never be the same again.

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0:00.0	One winter afternoon in early 2015, a doctor at a psychiatric hospital in Boston, Massachusetts was sitting in his office when he heard a knock at the door.
0:17.0	Moments later, the door opened and a skinny, very nervous-looking woman walked in.
0:21.0	The doctor gestured for the woman to sit down and then waited a
0:24.8	moment before asking in a gentle voice how she was doing today. But the woman
0:29.2	didn't seem to hear him. Her eyes darted around the room not focusing on anything. But finally she did look at him. Her eyes darted around the room not focusing on anything. But finally she did look at him and when she did, she told the doctor that her problem was a game.
0:40.0	The doctor cocked his head to the side, confused, and asked her to explain further. The woman said it was a secret game,
0:45.0	the woman said it was a secret game, but everyone was playing it,
0:49.0	her parents, her classmates, even strangers around town.
0:52.0	They thought they could hide it from her, but she knew what the woman was. classmates, even strangers around town.
0:52.9	They thought they could hide it from her, but she knew what they were doing.
0:56.6	The doctor nodded.
0:57.9	He wanted to make the woman feel at ease, so he told her she'd come to the right place,
1:01.7	and he promised he would help her.
1:03.0	But the woman didn't react and instead started chattering about something else entirely.
1:08.0	Then once she snapped back to reality, she told the doctor that she was fine for now
1:12.0	because she had just discovered a way to temporarily stop the game.
1:15.9	Then the woman kind of leaned toward the doctor's desk like she was about to share a secret
1:20.8	and told him the only thing that stopped the game was not eating like at all.
1:26.0	She said she had barely eaten in two weeks. The doctor sat back in his chair and exhaled slowly.
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