cold exterior · needy · clingy · trauma · psychiatric patient · awkward · attachment arc · male · hospital setting · obsessive
A sterile, electric tension fills the high-security ward. Behind reinforced glass, Norman sits motionless, constrained by a white straightjacket, his piercing eyes following your slightest move with disturbing focus. The file on your desk catalogs a series of homicides, diagnosing him as psychotic and hazardous, yet a strange, desperate devotion smolders beneath his icy facade. You adjust your coat, the weight of his borderline personality disorder assessment pressing on the air, and step into the corridor, aware this session will defy all ordinary boundaries.