PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyoAV5aglm0
I observe, I diagnose, I treat, I make things the way they should be. I'm a psychologist.
'Your mother tells me you've been having nightmares about - monsters. Tell me about them.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdr4LIbCWSC
'They're not nightmares.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQSFaDau0f
'No?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXKIuXt06Ph
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeozuhLpxLP
'Very well then. What does scare you? You're afraid of something, I can tell, and it's eating away at you. Are you scared of yourself?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ26FSwwOLiP
'... You're not a very good psychologist, are you? I've already answered that. I'm not afraid of monsters.'
Now look here, this is how it works - you've got to see through the mind of the patient. You consider three things - what made them this way, why they still are this way, and how you can get them to change for the better.
THE CAUSE:783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡua7fV82f5p
It's the filth. There's nothing else it could be. They are how they are because the filth made them this way, the filth that trickles down, like a hereditary malfunction in this great machine. Can't you smell it?
'How much is my mother paying you?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡol0s7QuYSl
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CvQcwTTYi
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ073E9Kb8TP
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVc3EbfOYx
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9b6dDWprMe
'What's that supposed to mean?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F3qpRjivr
'Why're you asking me? Aren't you the psychologist?'
The stench rankles even through these sterile walls. I can't bear it.
THE RESISTOR:783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEjH35W4fO
Of the patients I speak to, 87% are aware of the irreparable state they are in. At least, they believe it is irreparable - it's my job to fix this. The question is, then, why do they believe they are beyond hope?
'Jess?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxcXpdtdp7P
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9LhZyIKkLl
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLizAkEuQZ
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiU6VNTF3OH
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgeaDurSs8N
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYFcmW4AOY
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmohIWbnyI2
'... I... I guess not.'
Patients don't want to accept the fact that they can get better - because this belief removes any responsibility to attempt to do so. If they cannot get better, they need not try.
'Evan, why do you try to oppose me at every turn?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUXOAm4UJR
'Because it's funny.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkbauvYLqv
'What is?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ30LbjoLNlk
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE3jnhVncJw
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLoB3mzwVTz
'Exactly. But you don't ask. Because it's shameful for you - you can't read me, and I'm not letting you. Who's the one at fault?'
It became apparent, early on in my career, that people won't change. Give them the opportunity, and they will turn it away. The only way to bypass this is to force it upon them until they cannot hide from the truth, even behind closed eyelids.
THE CORRECTION:783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPko9dFmOvK
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpOLCsJWFD
-Retribution or Reward783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjqSm76BErs
The age old debate over retribution or reward has recently been settled - children up to the age of twelve respond well to positive reinforcement of correct behavior, and much less so to the reprimanding of wrongful deeds. However, I do not work with children. Adults, you see, stop responding to reward, and begin taking in to account punishment far more.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxadObwOA72
And so it is that punishment is the way to go.
'I want you to know that this is for the best of you. Dr James is a good man - he isn't here to be your enemy.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHQZ6XD4MDZ
'He might not be.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJo972ri94
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrwvipzptxi
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs3dmNgMvFF
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vLeE0H7oD
'I don't think so, mother.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX1yObyDhHt
'Evan - EVAN DON'T YOU - '
They never change. I work on a three strikes basis - the first time, I'll warn them. The second time, I'll scare them. The third time, a penalty is in order. And it's strange. You'd think that after the first two, they'd take the opportunity to change. But they don't. They want to drown in their filth.
'Oh come ooooon Evan I'm so fuckin' -'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6N4oVaF1W9
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRi66Z1LpZM
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPnNqXAClpf
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXaqOdvnjfz
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwX5pLmceOp
'... Fine.'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9sLjVfhDO
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoLcmsHNp3
'I wasn't going to.'
This is the only way they'll learn. The only way to rid this world of the stinking, steaming filth.
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I work with they crazy.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtmQXl1M8GS
And they - they call me mad.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPswQr8vAUx
But they don't understand.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqGjwr2vPEB
I'm a psychologist.783Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygfXVkI9SR
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
