THOMAS WAS a nice enough guy, but Ethan was fuming as he left the man’s office after his second visit. The guy had listened to Ethan on his first visit, and Ethan had thought the doctor would be someone he could talk to, that Ethan would be able to wrestle with his demons with the help of this knowledgeable man. Instead, the doctor started their session out this time by telling Ethan that his last visit had been an intake visit. The doctor needed to ascertain what sort of illnesses Ethan was grappling with so he’d know how to help him pharmacologically. What the fuck ever. So Thomas gave Ethan two prescriptions and asked him to come back in three weeks to discuss what the meds were doing for him. He also encouraged Ethan to continue seeing Jenna—both individually and in her Soaring Free group—and he referred Ethan to a fellow doctor, a psychologist in the same office. Ethan gathered that the psychologist was the talkie guy, the one who’d help him reason through his woes.
