PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXKgglmrsa
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.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ERkZvUdWQ
'They're not nightmares.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1YahNdPn18
'No?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBOpdNSmk4
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhgIb7tgG7
'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?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ3Qa2fBVSJ
'... 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:778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1mcvttykm
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?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf8tsPlv918
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDL1VXkMhCW
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg4PLg7IAG
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡii6aiI1YZ5
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJfarRar9BM
'What's that supposed to mean?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgQZfSY6XW
'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:778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANVhvPhnV4
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?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2LdshpSnlm
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbs8m7yADWD
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwKWpYGzusp
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOnmfMTQvGQ
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdJZxdO5mE
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM0jPTJdmU5
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKKt2fEoS2
'... 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?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp2E72w3U39
'Because it's funny.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQFPthrKbEA
'What is?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfS3GtPjCkM
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvRp6zJqbD
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxR5ujX3DIW
'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:778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmYFYeGfipZ
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKrOUGGENDB
-Retribution or Reward778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVTkhlWyker
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.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkAdzw5Hdo
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.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfFz2Zj9MsF
'He might not be.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdgMClPQEa
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMqupCv2SHo
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6yV58Rq7Dz
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2NM5d1CajK
'I don't think so, mother.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3sogo6BJhu
'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' -'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtexOhvFrWG
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF8EJSIP6ce
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYYwGbSqpp1
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF5FKxBrjFn
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFoGJDGpVEd
'... Fine.'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZlNZtEjE8
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxx0SLlZZS6
'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.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgq4H461Kg
And they - they call me mad.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFsgkUrpUIW
But they don't understand.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPie6v2ZJzH
I'm a psychologist.778Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvPycaDIJ8
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
