PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKlOhHqm1mw
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.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh4szcGxkMC
'They're not nightmares.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRIBIkv7ZQY
'No?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANHVC94Y7G
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb0G404Deoz
'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?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRlSsWMzZES
'... 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:781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7MdKTW1Ful
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?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdwIIDxpwM
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzU08bRfKnN
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXhfDflwR8
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPGVhX6hwF
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrS0EdO0xG
'What's that supposed to mean?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡESHjgWlfK9
'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:781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGvrOpMdjA
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?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6l5vxUrbVg
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9phfadrf7C
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHkKSao3ED
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfCDW6eskSo
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJjUOJqKQsE
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMsJNTFAOW
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3avV0a0quG
'... 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?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaVRUK8dtI4
'Because it's funny.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXYLvXMpGSO
'What is?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡar1FPgyqT3
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxISDyQyVfm
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcKAAeP2B3v
'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:781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkTx3C13Xj8
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNFEpXoqAx
-Retribution or Reward781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ14UQIuNzHp
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.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIz2f5EqvvP
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.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVZr7OWMjOJ
'He might not be.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2yc1pIBxaR
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlGFE6cuDgd
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsSho8mguj8
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhLLEHzyaaq
'I don't think so, mother.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoGrK9U5HeV
'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' -'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPIS6sVsCwI
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGp7V5vZLqg
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjkHx8In49y
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6SrmNp6mx
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffd0KLas6h
'... Fine.'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3B4iGgL9s9
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRD6DcgCAlF
'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.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWvnie7dSDg
And they - they call me mad.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSM3aY8v1zG
But they don't understand.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiyQJ0OByeo
I'm a psychologist.781Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsn8gHQPQZ8
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
