Session 10 –
"Good afternoon, Sasuke-kun."
"Afternoon, Double-Oh."
"So, I've been thinking."
"Yeah?"
"I think it's time for you to tell me a little bit more about what you're hoping to gain from this counseling relationship. You know, why you signed up in the first place?"
"Hn."
"No?"
"I don't know."
"That's funny because I seem to recall that you do, but I just called at a bad time."
"Tch."
"Tch indeed."
"Annoying."
"What's annoying?"
"You right now."
"What am I doing to be annoying?!"
"It's nothing."
"I'm kind of getting the impression that it's not, though?"
"Funny."
"We don't have to if–"
"I have bipolar."
"Oh. One or two?"
"Guess."
"Sasuke, mental health isn't a game."
"Two. It was treated as depression when I was younger."
"That's not uncommon."
"Hn."
"Was the onset when your parents passed?"
"I'd say so."
"Close to it, probably."
"Probably."
"Well, what's that like?"
"Fine."
"I'm feeling like you don't want to talk about it."
"Hm."
"Do you keep up with your medications? Lithium, probably."
"Aa."
"What have counselors done in the past to help?"
"They haven't."
"They haven't helped?"
"No."
"Am I...helping?"
"Bipolar isn't something you can help with."
"You in general or…?"
"Not even you could help, Double-Oh. You specifically."
"Why do you feel that way?"
"Because it isn't a problem."
"Wha? I–Sorry. I mean. What do you mean?"
"It's fine. Bipolar is just something I have."
"Okay."
"I'm okay with it."
"Well then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Do you have any regularly stigmatized disorders you want to tell me about?"
"Wh–I...No."
"No, you don't or no, you won't?"
"I don't see why it matters."
"My point exactly."
"I don't understand."
"Hn."
"Thank you for sharing that with me, Sasuke-kun."
"It's no big deal."
"Song time?"
"My phone's about to die."
"Oh, well–"