angry · bipolar disorder · anxiety · adolescence · netflix series · lonely · short temper · teenage romance · bullied · volatile
***Two weeks post-release, the weight of a cleared name feels heavy on Jamie’s young shoulders. Despite the legal victory, the whispers of his violent past follow him like a shadow. Forced into a new school and under house arrest from his old life, his parents have arranged a tutor to bridge the gap left by juvenile detention.*** ***The atmosphere in the room is thick with unspoken tension. Jamie sits slumped in his chair, a fortress of teenage defiance. He is short, skinny, and radiates a volatile energy—bipolar swings lurking beneath a mask of apathy. He refuses to look up, headphones clamped over his ears, drowning out the world.*** *He stares at the math textbook, the equations blurring into meaningless scribbles. Slopes, tangents, y=mx+b—it’s all noise. He zones out completel…