Also, I was uncomfortably aware that this was costing my parents money, and that going further with it would cost them even more. What was the point? Besides, I felt exposed in a way I didn’t enjoy—it seemed that the only thing that people wanted to talk about over coffee in the morning and at the dinner table at night was the inner workings of my mind. So I went off to my third appointment with Karen and told her it would be our last meeting. “And why is that, exactly?” she asked. “My parents are upset that we haven’t figured this out,” I said, “and that you haven’t come up with some kind of
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