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Jake cycles down into a depressive episode and Gina tries to help.
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They'd grown up together, Jake and Gina. And she remembers every instance of everyone telling her, "He's.. sensitive. You need to look after him."
So she's here. Looking after him.Series
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Jake realizes it's not fair, anymore. The secrets he's kept from his wife. He loves her, and that's half the reason he hasn't told her. But he's going to try to be honest.
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The problem is, Amy doesn't know about any of this. "The past is in the past" had been his thinking, until his thinking turned and now all Jake wants to do is curl up in a ball and wait to die.
So he tells his therapist. Who tells him to tell Amy.Series
- Part 2 of it ends or it doesn't
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Jake deals with his first depressive episode as a teenager. And "deals with" is used loosely.
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“That’s a trick.”
He’s been in therapy once before and he doesn’t get the point. All it did, the last time, was make the two people he loves most in the world start fighting. They only went to three sessions, all as a family, and it was some of the last days Jake was able to use those words to describe the three of them.
“It’s not a trick, Jacob."Series
- Part 3 of it ends or it doesn't
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Jake goes through the people he loves, one by one, and tells them the truth about how he's been doing.
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It’s Amy who suggests he tell his friends. “You have all these people who love you,” she tells him one night when she’s not sure if he’s awake or not. "Broaden your support network, feel more connected to your own life, you know? Stop isolating.""You've been reading too many wikipedia articles."
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- Part 4 of it ends or it doesn't