Therapy Session 1 Dated Friday, 11/07/97

Sharon, a new patient, is feeling the same sorts of pressures in her life which led to a previous suicide attempt.

Therapy Session 2 Dated Friday, 11/14/97

Sharon has little patience for co-workers who shirk their office duties.

Telephone Call with Sharon Lough Dated Thursday, 11/20/97

Sharon's landlord is trying to evict her by claiming she molested his son.

Therapy Session 3 Dated Friday, 11/21/97

Sharon is wallowing in revenge fantasies against her landlord who, by falsely accusing her of sexually molesting his son, hopes to evict her and keep her deposit.

Therapy Session 4 Dated Friday, 12/05/97

Sharon is consciously using denial to avoid her current problems, although she begins to open up about her sexually promiscuous past.

Therapy Session 5 Dated Friday, 12/12/97

Sharon's previous experience with the S&M community has left her with an extraordinary distaste for any form of sex.

Therapy Session 6 Dated Friday, 12/19/97

Sharon allows herself to be paraded around as the pretend slave to a S&M lesbian wanna be.

Therapy Session 7 Dated Friday, 01/09/98

Sharon associates sex with drugs, alcohol, and other compulsive behaviors, and now, in contrast to her previous promiscuous activity, she prefers to live an asexual life.

Therapy Session 8 Dated Thursday, 01/29/98

Sharon, who once embraced S&M and promiscuity and now has a strong antipathy towards sexuality of any kind, might be whipsawed between those two extremes by childhood memories of her hated father's physical and emotional abuse.

Therapy Session 9 Dated Thursday, 02/12/98

While not actually suicidal, Sharon says that she's unhappy enough to welcome an accidental death.

Telephone Call Dated Tuesday, 02/17/98

Sharon has been diagnosed with stage III endometriosis.

Therapy Session 10 Dated Thursday, 03/05/98

Although Sharon isn't an imminent suicide risk, her depression and her death fantasies, masked with black humor, suggest the need for medication.

Therapy Session 11 Dated Friday, 03/27/98

Sharon seems intent on taking her recreational drug use to a higher level.

Therapy Session 12 Dated Friday, 04/03/98

Sharon calls herself "a stoner and a slut" when, stoned on marijuana during a session, she reports that she's entered into a sexual relationship with Rob out of feelings of financial obligation.

Telephone Call from Robin Young Dated Wednesday, 04/15/98

Robin Young, the man whom Sharon has been sleeping with in exchange for room and board, calls when Sharon disappeared in a hurry after Robin's wife walked in on them together.

Therapy Session 13 Dated Friday, 04/17/98

Sharon admits to regularly injecting a combination of heroin and methamphetamines.

Therapy Session 14 Dated Friday, 04/24/98

Sharon is bitter about being "incarcerated" at a drug rehab facility.

Therapy Session 15 Dated Friday, 05/01/98

Although she feels a certain nostalgia for injecting drugs, Sharon believes she's ready to be released from her rehab program.

Therapy Session 16 Dated Friday, 05/08/98

Now that Sharon is off drugs, she finds her current sexual partner to be increasingly repellent.

Therapy Session 17 Dated Friday, 05/15/98

Sharon, personally crippled from an injury to her foot, rants against the perks given to the handicapped.

Therapy Session 18 Dated Friday, 05/22/98

Although Rob is rapidly and efficiently divorcing Charlotte, Sharon is angry because she's being put out by the separation.

Therapy Session 19 Dated Friday, 05/29/98

Sharon's caustic wit shines through now that she's not befuddled by drugs.

Therapy Session 20 Dated Friday, 06/05/98

Sharon describes herself as continuously seething with anger and filled with revenge fantasies.

Therapy Session 21 Dated Friday, 06/12/98

Sharon precipitates a violent altercation with an old boyfriend which lands her in the emergency room.

Therapy Session 22 Dated Friday, 06/19/98

Sharon's disabilities have left her prey to drug and alcohol abuse.

Therapy Session 23 Dated Friday, 06/26/98

Sharon's awakening sexual interest is expressing itself in somewhat odd ways.

Therapy Session 24 Dated Friday, 07/03/98

Sharon actually enjoys a New Age drum and chant session.

Therapy Session 25 Dated Friday, 07/10/98

Sharon graphically describes an S&M encounter with Tony, who has admitted that he's HIV-positive.

Conversation with Robin Young Dated Tuesday, 07/14/98

Sharon has been arrested for trying to grow some form of hallucinogenic fungus on pieces of rye bread.

Therapy Session 26 Dated Friday, 07/24/98

Sharon wants to talk about anything other than the reasons why she was growing and ingesting hallucinogenic fungus.

Therapy Session 27 Dated Friday, 07/31/98

Sharon sexually humiliates Tony during a public S&M party, to his delight.

Therapy Session 28 Dated Friday, 08/07/98

Sharon goes on tirades against Hispanics and the inadequacies of condoms and other barrier devices.

Therapy Session 29 Dated Friday, 08/14/98

Sharon's inability to control her own anger leads her into another violent encounter.

Therapy Session 30 Dated Friday, 08/21/98

Sharon has been subpoenaed to testify in a child custody case on behalf of a man she detests.

Therapy Session 31 Dated Friday, 09/11/98

Although innocent, Sharon almost feels like she is a child molester because she's being forced to defend herself against that charge.

Therapy Session 32 Dated Friday, 09/18/98

As unlikely as it seems, Sharon becomes the editor of a college literary magazine.

Therapy Session 33 Dated Friday, 09/25/98

Sharon tries to win a friend by being vicious towards her.

Therapy Session 34 Dated Friday, 10/02/98

Sharon is interested in acquiring Lila as a lover, even though their relationship has started on a foundation of intense emotional manipulation.

Therapy Session 35 Dated Friday, 10/09/98

Sharon feels used after a session of rather one-sided sex with Lila.

Therapy Session 36 Dated Friday, 10/16/98

Sharon decides to intermix her tutoring with S&M to really teach Lila a lesson.

Therapy Session 37 Dated Friday, 11/06/98

Sharon has her tongue pierced to enhance her ability to perform fellatio.

Therapy Session 38 Dated Friday, 11/20/98

Sharon wants to talk about putrid body products rather than face any of her real issues.

Therapy Session 39 Dated Friday, 12/04/98

While Sharon's physical injuries have healed sufficiently to allow her to return to work, she clearly doesn't want to go back.

Therapy Session 40 Dated Friday, 12/11/98

Sharon feels unable to sustain a relationship because she is unwilling to tell the lies necessary to make it work.

Therapy Session 41 Dated Friday, 02/19/99

With Rob ill and in the hospital, Sharon is living out of her car and is effectively homeless.