Following the line of characters already mentioned, now is the turn of the boyish patient Billy.
Billy is nervous, shy and has to deal with an extreme speech impediment. In the book, it is implied that he cuts himself, attemping several occasions to commit suicide. Billy becomes the Nurse Ratched's informant because he is afraid of her.
Another aspect is his fear of women, but that doesn't prevent spending one night with a prostitute in order to lose his virginity, thanks to McMurphy. Of course, the next mornig the Big Nurse finds him with the lady and start threatening to tell his mother. Then he goes and finally kills himself in his room because, I believe, he doesn't want to lose his mother's love.
His death affects McMurphy, which leds to the final events in the book.
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