[...The only people who take her at her word that she is Kasumi have also been badly scrambled. That doesn't surprise Sumire, but it is going to make dealing with all of this much more difficult.]
He may have helped, but that doesn't and shouldn't mean you're completely over everything. That's not how it works. Futaba-senpai made a point of telling me that I would still have bad days, even after dealing with my Palace. And even when I couldn't see things clearly and thought I was over everything, the grief and depression were still there. They'd pop up in my head and I couldn't understand why I was having those thoughts.
I can't even say Dr. Maruki didn't help me. I was 'go out and buy the pills' away from another attempt, so his interference kept me alive long enough that I could choose to live. And now I have to figure out how to actually do that, but that's another story.
Even though he helped me, my head was still really messed up.
cw: suicide discussion
He may have helped, but that doesn't and shouldn't mean you're completely over everything. That's not how it works. Futaba-senpai made a point of telling me that I would still have bad days, even after dealing with my Palace. And even when I couldn't see things clearly and thought I was over everything, the grief and depression were still there. They'd pop up in my head and I couldn't understand why I was having those thoughts.
I can't even say Dr. Maruki didn't help me. I was 'go out and buy the pills' away from another attempt, so his interference kept me alive long enough that I could choose to live. And now I have to figure out how to actually do that, but that's another story.
Even though he helped me, my head was still really messed up.