PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEKKOodG0p
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.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSr254CDZZ
'They're not nightmares.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnJFPcnvZAs
'No?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg5EXAkgpPC
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQulzqub2a
'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?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgnSnNmoSBy
'... 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:782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr3IVW9VuNo
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?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw9pQ0POCBT
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC8X16MTVER
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz9CMscSYNd
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpse03FE1PJ
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBGoa937Lj
'What's that supposed to mean?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeUHsP7dqg
'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:782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzxlpz2cIml
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?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrexBbfmylz
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFm9KKYhzBm
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLZ1t0EH2Z
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4fWQf1v6mx
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjencUQessO
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJJofUtO5Ei
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplbyOzzl7O
'... 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?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB44Mqm5qZU
'Because it's funny.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAtaofVeFU
'What is?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwyEKL2rSSE
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡorVhWQD4l7
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw8HGlan9Rg
'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:782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6As4lDwGQ5
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkY0ykbCcgS
-Retribution or Reward782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzDeXGhQ1H
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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9kAjVNwsie
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.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5QXvyYsRk
'He might not be.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUYPKlePVE
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk8AChiDn6w
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfwP9FaPa6j
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6XXVl9vFiO
'I don't think so, mother.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwMVIgHbtRS
'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' -'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1hG9CV3Jri
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAYSp9b1l1
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqaq4z9CjyS
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQuSf4dokI
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7zYVTtspkw
'... Fine.'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8SUuo5WdIQ
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ403QW9V9eF
'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.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYPgRsmaWa
And they - they call me mad.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJNWmdvkxi
But they don't understand.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBV1J6P2Fny
I'm a psychologist.782Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDG5SRfjAXF
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
