That child has survived living in depressing isolation, open heart surgery, discovering a secret family, parents' divorce, constantly being tossed around like a football.
In the past one year itself he has survived a semester abroad without parents, being forced to accept Krishna, being neglected by parents, mother alleging him of attempt to murder, resultant panic attacks, being kidnapped by therapist, surviving a near death experience, watching his mother fall to her death.
Instead of processing the loss, he became responsible for his father's shaky mental health, took care of his baby sister, was manipulated by grandfather to go to hostel, & bumped into his mother's doppelganger, & had a life threatening emotional breakdown. After all of that, he has been projecting all of his motherly attachment onto his dead mother's doppelganger for months now. AND EVERYONE IS NOT ONLY OKAY WITH IT, THEY ARE ENABLING IT!
Let alone the family helping him process Naira's loss, they swing between burdening him & ignoring his mental health. This child is probably one day away from a full blown nervous breakdown but it's okay because he looks normal on the outside.
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