Clean, Shaven

#cleanshaven

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What makes Peter cower in the corner? (0:02)

Auditory hallucinations: (0:03, 0:17, 0:38, 0:40, 0:54, 0:59)

Peter covers mirrors and breaks or covers the windows of his car. (0:04)

A voice poses a question: "Is that paranoia?" (0:06)

Peter turns his motel room mirror so it faces the wall. (0:12)

Peter cuts his scalp with scissors as if to remove a growth. (0:13)
He scrubs his neck with a steel wool pad. (0:13, 0:48)

Is this some kind of flashback? (0:15)

In the library Peter bangs his head on the books and shelves. (0:41)

Peter holds his head as he hallucinates. (0:44)

Hearing more hallucinated voices Peter opens his car door at speed as though he intends to jump. (0:51)

With his pocket knife Peter cuts his fingernail then cuts it out and gouges the nail bed. (0:54)

Peter tells his daughter Nicole, "They had put a small receiver in the back of my head and a transmitter in my fingernail."
"To get at the transmitter I had to take my fingernail off... I think clearer, but I still have to get the receiver out of my head." (1:06)

Peter's mother Gladys cries after Peter has been killed. (1:13)

Bereavement | delusion | hallucination | paranoia | Schizophrenia | self mutilation