PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEFwtfOMJo
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.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxR5MD9ePw6
'They're not nightmares.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGcIfx9qbzR
'No?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftmT1gxXUi
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5CXrS3ZO0d
'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?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwCaRXVwKRd
'... 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:775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY9pbxFTNPD
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?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKH3aKpsjyv
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsfXIdECMsy
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC1EKRc8aHv
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn4RHnmM2Qe
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEJQ7E9bykz
'What's that supposed to mean?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XY6QZW118
'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:775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE4JFnMae0S
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?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTu8W31siOa
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkBPkhgCE0G
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpU6DReo4eI
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡShWffcxPcq
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOhYVKFmQHh
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡML8jvpIJwX
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTudd8c0vZQ
'... 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?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe9paUZpIGt
'Because it's funny.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRx1klqmwNX
'What is?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBtMwlJbHI
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDOu5g2WpAD
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwjbmcybDPX
'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:775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8VGsqmthQf
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx39aOfonTI
-Retribution or Reward775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfR4XQFmsxM
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.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVIoSspVnrQ
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.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRGikTbZu2v
'He might not be.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBFjzDpazNS
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxMGTYydfbq
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxhwwQ22vW7
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8x6vUh1CAj
'I don't think so, mother.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGbVaYPJyGr
'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' -'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVI1QAAZgCe
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0PG4UwCaNm
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk3UOlHgctf
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMuNO73xqcb
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv0D26FsAdG
'... Fine.'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv9hV8SiLRm
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ961Tvuu2r4
'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.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKTok1d3300
And they - they call me mad.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWS9PPnoGU0
But they don't understand.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20WWP476aF
I'm a psychologist.775Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGghtFDmU3
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
