PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqoCzj1YV98
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.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuQuhh0lTx
'They're not nightmares.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76zc3rYXxL
'No?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDENvDLuORR
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEoCw8Kbeq
'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?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuUHX5aOQu7
'... 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:724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyL8aQw8MpQ
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?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLh6DRWeAZ
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLHswVPYjd
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyOHh6pv0P4
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeCE1kwdrEv
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllQWQp6ZuA
'What's that supposed to mean?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQg5LjnaZcT
'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:724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrg7HUAzLQo
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?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡymCZjPc5WN
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKdciMWTlfF
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJLbbsjOnS
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPFuc4KIGH
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs01aVZz25w
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZEBqN0Baq
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbJUKyE5o5X
'... 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?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEFCFBeLB2d
'Because it's funny.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3mURi218LL
'What is?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJWw8JRxOGp
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡytGszH1IKm
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWlkFBkNmf
'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:724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2HSA2QTPsU
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXoFVKapLvN
-Retribution or Reward724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFIWeFXI9hS
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.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSIOToCzhq
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.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFhtd3CnnaF
'He might not be.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX73qeoSjY4
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmTK7lGhzw
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRMdMfxz5S
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG7Zp4sODjk
'I don't think so, mother.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa0kXYnnnFV
'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' -'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡagEjrQrnnr
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvv6ELBYiH
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLPJnQhN94s
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3ErhkZhII
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGvYurpXp9I
'... Fine.'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5uuZabcHnk
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxcGbYf3CW
'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.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQcOc2TJtT7
And they - they call me mad.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3xjEq5aAIb
But they don't understand.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BIqIeB5JF
I'm a psychologist.724Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPQ6ytD7SSD
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
