Talk:Scars/@comment-31077845-20170201144422

I find this story confusing. Or more accurately I find the ending confusing. Believe it or not there's actually been a couple times I've thought of this story at other points, probably because it contains sexual abuse and is thus somewhat disquieting, and thought "Well that was kind of a disturbing story, but...what the fuck was that ending supposed to mean?" Why ARE there scars on his chest? But let's ignore that for now and look at the setting. I guess it never explicitly says he's talking to a real therapist, but if he's not, who is he talking to? And regardless, why are they murdering him? I'd say the fact that the "therapist" has access to potent anxiolytics would indicate he isn't in a regular therapist's office, but the only place they would have injectable forms of anxiolytic drugs/drugs potent enough to kill anyone would basically be a psyche ward, and it says he sees people outside going about their business, so I doubt he's in some kind of mental ward. Plus he says he's spilling his guts to a "complete stranger", meaning this isn't some doctor who he sees on a regular basis and again makes the randomly killing him thing seem all the more random. I'd suspect maybe he was, like...kidnapped or something? But there are windows right there, so that seems really unlikely.

The problem is I don't know how much of that is intentional and how much of it is the author making mistakes/being ignorant of how psychological medicine works. So what the heck is going on here?