Yes, those are my feet and my socks.
Picture taken with my iPhone and filtered with Instagram.
Hospital socks are the great unifier. Though some patients wear standard-issue hospital gowns and paper-based hospital pants, and some patients cling to normal life by wearing street clothes, but about 90% of all patients in this ward (which holds about 30 patients) -- they wear the standard-issue hospital socks with diamond-shaped grips. The socks put us on the same level, marking us as equals, because everyone is nothing more than a patient here. You could be a successful career-person or a homeless person on the street, but all of us are patients in a psych ward and all of us wear these ridiculous socks.
That other 10% wears real shoes (usually Crocs, actually), but the socks are everywhere. I think it's a matter of comfort. As we struggle with our demons, we want an iota of comfort: we want our feet to be warm and safe.
We're not allowed to go barefoot for some reason.
