okay. now growing up is really scaring me…

Exiting Thomas’ office, Cassi returns to her own desk and sees a few psych patients of hers. The feeling that is repeated by her patients is that they feel ‘hopeless’. Hopeless in the sense that they’ve lived what they could live through and they’ve tried everything to be happy, but its just never clicked for them. Then Cassi’s friend Joan walks in and Cassi breaks down, weeping about her failing marriage and her feelings of ‘hopelessness’…hmm…sound familiar? This freaks Cassi out that she feels the same way as her patients. I mean, I think we all would be a bit concerned if we could relate to psych patients…
Anyhow, Cassi returns home alone after a long day at work…slash dealing with emotion…and relaxes and eats dinner, feeling all teared-out, like all emotion and excitement had been flushed from her system when she opened up to Joan that afternoon. Nonetheless, she still has the strength to search Thomas’ study for more pills and behold: two more kinds of pills. great. Thomas really does have a problem. But so does Cassi when Patricia bursts into Thomas’ study demanding why she’s creeping around her son’s room…

Back at the hospital, Thomas sleeps with another woman to ‘relieve stress’…with the daughter of one of his former patients.

eew.

Thomas is becoming more and more corrupted and disturbing as the book continues…and it kind of reminds me of a very severe case of mid-life crisis…
although if it wasn’t severe…and this is and example of a normal mid-life crisis…
okay.
Now growing up is really scaring me…