**SUBJECT: Our Appointment **

Hi, Dr. Youssef!

I’m really looking forward to our session. I’ve heard so many good things about you from Jess, and I’ve been meaning to try therapy for a long time.

Unfortunately, I have to reschedule.

I’ve just been so busy and am SO slammed this week. Sorry!

Can we maybe look at meeting a few weeks from now?

Thanks!

Jeff

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**SUBJECT: Re: Our Appointment **

Hi, Dr. Youssef!

I know we were supposed to meet today. I’ve had it in my calendar all week!

Unfortunately, I have to reschedule.

I’ve just been so busy. And while I was driving over I got to thinking, and there’s nothing I really need to discuss. Everything in my life is actually pretty fine right now, and it feels weird to start therapy when everything is finally going fine and there’s nothing I need to work on with my family or my inability to form relationships of any kind. I’m stupid. Sorry for being stupid.

Can we maybe look at meeting a few weeks from now?

Thanks!

Jeff

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**SUBJECT: Re: Re: Our Appointment **

Hi, Dr. Youssef!

I know we were supposed to meet ten seconds ago, and, yes, that was me who knocked on your door and then fled down the hallway.

Unfortunately, I have to reschedule.

I’ve just been so busy. Plus, during and before and after each knock on your door I got to thinking, and I don’t deserve therapy. I don’t deserve anything good. I’m a fucking little shit fuckup who can’t even fucking commit to anything. What do I even have to be depressed about? I’m not, like, one of those kids who cuts up ships and sells them for scrap metal in Bangladesh. I’m just feeling sorry for myself. I’m probably just going to go eat a whole pizza by myself in the dark and watch “Frasier” reruns because, yeah, Jeff, that’ll make things better. God. I always do this. This is why Hannah left. I’m sorry. You don’t need to know that. I’m sorry. I just don’t feel like talking to anyone today. I am a dirt person and bad.

Can we maybe look at meeting a few weeks from now?

Thanks!

Jeff

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**SUBJECT: Re: Re: Re: Our Appointment **

Hi, Dr. Youssef!

I’m SO sorry I had to miss our session for the last sixty years. I’ve just been so busy these past few decades. You know how it goes. Are you still available and/or alive? I’d love to finally dive in and start some therapy soon.

But, unfortunately, I have to reschedule.

Time is nothing to me now. I’ve plunged deep into the prison of my own mind, and the linear reality of what was is nothing but a ripple across the multiverse of what may be. I roam the lifetimes that never were, hunting for happiness, though my prey forever eludes me. All that my soul once cherished is ash. The void calls to me, and I sing back with a song of my own creation. But, feeble as it may be, it is my song, and in the never-ending night of despair, my song must be enough.

Also, I just got a dog, and I’m actually feeling pretty good! I think I’m fine now. Everything is fine.

Thanks!

Jeff