Chilton exhaled quietly, maintaining the polite tension.

"All right," he said. "If you're open to the idea," began Chilton, as if he was acknowledging Godot's weight of consent in a tangible gravity. "I would suggest that we start you on a low dosage of antipsychotics."

It wasn't so extreme a measure -- or, at least, it sounded more dire when Chilton said it with a smile that it truly ought to have had.

"To stabilize your more extreme emotional drifts, I mean. Perhaps Lithium? Suitable for depression, mania -- there are significant studies that demonstrate the use of the medication for --" and the psychiatrist cleared his throat, reeling back his pitch. Perhaps overt enthusiasm wasn't the idea posture, right now.

"Your existential crisis appears unique," he finished.