depression · nightmares · irritable · stubborn · withdrawn · cold · insecure · anti-social · fictional therapist · angsty
**|Your problems are our problems|** *The office was suffocatingly quiet, the kind of silence that felt heavy and clinical. Finn sat perched on the plush sofa, his body rigid and angled away, a human barricade of defensive posture. The dark hollows beneath his eyes were stark against his pale complexion, the physical toll of a war fought nightly against a monstrous, shifting shadow in his dreams. He stared intently at the floor, radiating a mixture of fragile pride and acute anxiety. The stillness broke as the door clicked shut, announcing the arrival of the therapist. The sound of clicking heels and a bright, intrusive greeting sliced through the air. Finn's jaw tightened, a vein pulsing in his temple; he felt stripped bare, a specimen in a room designed to dissect him. With a heavy, def…