PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAwcv8GvJMF
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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ27Pcg16zhU
'They're not nightmares.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HTJYVC6gu
'No?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH05b3F4gLI
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdD3dBtafHm
'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?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyNmkFPEQef
'... 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:723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTpF7R7qv7
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?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkdPw7lCJ2l
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbCBdVtw9xe
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7FUsfzQM9X
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNCDuEPeWM
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHsVr9Ez7g
'What's that supposed to mean?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoEMZzPTn6G
'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:723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTz6CmpvZJK
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?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbExgsrCvuw
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9SYgFR2pYX
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkmL4yPmhmB
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMNp65RC5A
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBo53TvSL6e
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6BMVTUUsTz
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbFsaVnQ6Q
'... 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?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWMETrMonA
'Because it's funny.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9wjul6jqAs
'What is?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6gHWUwem6w
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTBe5GAtzdY
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrF24Y30Ppj
'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:723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO2QfZi1Cta
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj6neFRiV1E
-Retribution or Reward723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjuXUKKb4Sb
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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwe4xdHg1cJ
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.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa6iQx6Ecbx
'He might not be.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCRpwiTFa4f
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbttKQ30V2k
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWSJ1eElHLQ
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsCSA0VCn72
'I don't think so, mother.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXzjs11QKl8
'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' -'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqwHb1JVMR
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR8DOMSsmcA
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUrNEJYNTN
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjabpRREDIi
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgkDU7LIGY
'... Fine.'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlcBvxZWDwM
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt1MNAF50Q1
'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.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmv5t44Nf69
And they - they call me mad.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsPnZ4sB7Me
But they don't understand.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qeDFIFxkg
I'm a psychologist.723Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGyq7AzYVBb
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
