”“I guess we will just have to see how it works.”Mom was waiting for me when I came out of the room.“Are you going to do it?”“I’m going ...to give it a try.”I could see the relief wash over her face and it pretty much told me she was worried that I might have said no and that it would have somehow had an effect on relationships. Whether mine with Jason or hers with Jason I guessed I’d never know.I went up to my room and started working on the outline for a paper I had to turn in. I hadn’t. I’m a Super Genius, with the ego and occasional bouts of megalomania that seem to come with it. My darling Crystal occasionally steps in to remind me that I am a genetic wonder and modern superman rather than a god. I can live with that. And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be watching a Smallville DVD on Crystal Benoit’s titanic flat TV Screen. I’ve never seen a TV that big! Yeah, I’m having fun at Crystal’s place. She’s currently at work and I’ve got the place all to myself. As they say in the. All this did was remind her of Aubreyand how gorgeous she looked carrying his child. The tears fell as shestruggled to get up. Craig helped her, but she didn't thank him. Alexwalked up to the loft and lied on the bed, softly crying until she fellasleep. Craig continued to stay on the bathroom floor.***A few hours had passed since the whole ordeal. Craig had eventuallystood up and left the bathroom to begin pacing around the lower half ofthe cabin. He wasn't about to go disturb Alex; he knew. ”“So you think they should just take her off the drugs?”I sighed, “Heck if I know, but what I did conclude is that until we change the public perception of mental illness and stop relying on drugs as the primary treatment, we’re never going to have a system which isn’t inefficient, ineffective, indifferent, and often incoherent. I don’t know how to fix Angie’s illness, and I’m not planning on being a psychiatrist, so someone else has to work on that. But that someone HAS to be focused on a.
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