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Empathetic Psychosis

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Personality Disorder (Not Otherwise Specified) My patients called me Dr. Holloway. My friends called me Jason. I won’t tell you what my three ex-wives called me but I’m sure you can guess. I was a psychiatrist (and a damn good one seventy percent of the time). My adult life had been full of restarts, reinventions, and rehabilitations. This new beginning, though . . . this was supposed to be different. I’d taken a job at Margins Treatment Center in sunny Los Angeles as the Clinical Director.

Psychological HorrorGuiltUnreliable Narrator

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SardonicSocial SatireHorrorUnsettlingFragmentedConsciousnessSpeculative FictionTraumaDarkUrbanWryContemporaryFirst PersonGrief And LossIdentityVoice Driven

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mental-illnesssubstance-usesuicide

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