[Warning: Upsetting Content regarding mental issues. Readers have been warned.]
"I see…" Shailene continued writing down her note. But she couldn't help to get distraught about the teenage bullying until he got depressed and had to be assigned to a psychologist.
Because it reminded Shailene of something unpleasant back then.
"You may continue, Miss Johnson."
"… Derik got assigned to a male psychologist named Carter, who happened to be young and also quite inexperienced. My parents didn't have that much money to begin with, so we could only afford a third-class psychologist and hoped for the best,"
"We thought that Derik's mental health would eventually recover. But as time passed, and money wasted into the psychologist, Derik's mental health wasn't recovering at all. He got worse, and had to drop out of high school because he had a manic episode that harmed one of his classmates."