PSYCHOLOGIST
I work with the crazy.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGNwD9KLnT3
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.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDa8gHEEIvq
'They're not nightmares.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZtzH02p5K
'No?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcffhtopyN3
'They're only called nightmares if you're scared. And I'm not scared of monsters.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pIQKXd65X
'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?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPAblCGbHxu
'... 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:784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxBjocw4mMy
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?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jClRQjPRq
'I don't see how that's relevant at all.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡujpNUqV7od
'It's very relevant. Do you want to help me, or do you want to help your pockets?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDGY2mYvxmI
'Evan, that's not the right way of thinking. I'm here to be your friend. I want to get to know you.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0s2zczmKXm
'Friends don't have ulterior motives. Everyone does.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡohwA3CLYNq
'What's that supposed to mean?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrc4jRsAAu
'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:784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLxbwIlmhqc
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?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WvzdLnY2H
'Oh my god, Evan, what are you doing here?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbsbnVBIwR
'Was about to ask the same to you. You look like a wreck.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTIYGKAN2K8
'You shouldn't see me like this. This is so embarrassing.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplrfGC2pKD
'Hey, it's okay. Need another drink?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiQUJL4ZEmA
'No, I really shouldn't... I've already had four.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHDLSqpx682
'Then one more won't hurt, will it?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDVqC37adJL
'... 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?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJDvBmAeJQT
'Because it's funny.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcTz4W0dHHB
'What is?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJI7Yd9ENK
'Watching you not know what to do. It's new for you, isn't it?'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCCAJexrNm
'I don't quite see what you're trying to say here.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiiSAElcYp3
'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:784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1UdQUFPPf
And thus ends the case study - the only thing left to do is to determine the treatment, the therapy.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtSF762X0Sr
-Retribution or Reward784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrxK4PEIngr
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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhBIAlWL3NM
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.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDMdDuB83gn
'He might not be.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdRVniFOYbW
'Evan, calm down. Evan.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj26bHYIirz
'I'm very calm, mother. Look at my hands. Still as stone. Are you talking to yourself? You seem quite agitated.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPwNa14kD5
'Evan. Stop this. NOW.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5F32q3hxX8
'I don't think so, mother.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRE7DiIce22
'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' -'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkPsuH2lPCf
'Jess, that's disgusting. Stop it.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1DgZXzd6kv
'Evaaaaan you're such a bore why can't you just come in and look here look what i got to show you -'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡINV4IGdDrI
'You're drunk. For all you care right now, I could be a killer. And you'd invite me in all the same.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjna75H5CSV
'look evan dont you just wanna have some fun i know u want to come on have some fun'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JwtFEFKBC
'... Fine.'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQEfA8f4OO
'ohhh see evan i knew and dont forget to close the door'784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ddWOm7zeK
'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.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9bY9mrKBs
And they - they call me mad.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFuzHXEB8xg
But they don't understand.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdBRhFzFrlJ
I'm a psychologist.784Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3HmO0zHV2V
And I've still got the whole world left to treat.
