Chapter 5: Past Prime
Dr. Sharon Shaw works too much and too hard these days. Her schedule is intense, showcasing forty clients, which includes an unbalanced boy named Matty, whom she believes has personality-anger issues and has a secret list of certain people in his life that he wants to murder. Here in her office of soft browns and calming greens she works, listening to her clients and their exceptional problems:
I have s****l feelings for my son.
I want to murder my mother-in-law.
I feel like I’m underneath the blue.
I can’t stop walking/pacing/walking.
I vomit after eating; even my favorite foods.
I touch myself and think it’s Jesus’s hands.
I sleep with a mechanic who could be my daughter.
I want to have a stranger’s baby.
I need a pain pill every three hours.
I know my de
