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Unhelpful Therapist
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The premise
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A man describes the childhood loss that still shapes his life and challenges his therapist to explain what their weekly appointments have achieved. The therapist keeps turning his complaints into questions, even twisting a tumble-dryer analogy into another empty insight. Pressed for practical advice, he falls back on an impossible instruction before offering a very dubious alternative.
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Script
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- 00:00
Patient
And I was eight years old, and I suppose I realised that's it. He's not coming back. My dad's not coming back.
- 00:09
Therapist
That must have been a horrible moment.
- 00:13
Patient
Well, yeah, it was, and as I think I've said before, I don't think I've really escaped from that moment.
- 00:21
Therapist
That must be very difficult.
- 00:25
Patient
Yes, it is. And I suppose I've been hoping that, as I've been coming here, every week for the last three years that you would in some way not cure me exactly but okay cure me I mean tell me what to do in order to feel better
- 00:45
Therapist
it's understandable that you would want that
- 00:47
Patient
well I do want that
- 00:48
Therapist
of course you do
- 00:50
Patient
but you don't seem to be doing that
- 00:52
Therapist
that must be hard
- 00:54
Patient
it is hard
- 00:55
Therapist
so how does it it feel when I don't seem to do anything to help you?
- 01:00
Patient
It feels shit.
- 01:02
Therapist
Of course.
- 01:04
Patient
Okay, good. So I'm going to press you. I feel relentlessly unhappy in my brain from a combination of what has happened to me and what I'm like.
- 01:12
Therapist ?
Well.
- 01:12
Patient
And I understand that what I am like may be a product of what has happened to me.
- 01:16
Therapist ?
And?
- 01:17
Patient
And that some of the things that have happened to me may be because of what i'm light
- 01:20
Therapist ?
yes
- 01:21
Patient
so what are you going to do to fix me
- 01:24
Therapist
well that's not really how we work
- 01:27
Patient
okay if i wanted someone to deliver a tumble dryer and i asked them to put the tumble dryer in the tumble dryer space and they said that's not really how we work i wouldn't pay them would i i wouldn't give them 300 pounds and then come back the next week with another 300 pounds and ask them again to put the tumble dryer in the tumble dryer space and then keep doing that every week since covid constantly contemplating the gaping hole where there should now be a tumble dryer
- 01:56
Therapist
it's interesting that you reach for a tumble dryer that's the analogy because in a sense you've been tumble dried haven't you
- 02:07
Patient
in what sense
- 02:09
Therapist
i don't have to back these things up i'm i'm just trying to help
- 02:13
Patient
If you're trying to help, tell me what to do so that I feel basically OK most of the time. What should I do with all my shit?
- 02:22
Therapist
Well, I... I suppose if you press me, my advice would be, you know, put it out of your mind.
- 02:33
Patient
Put it out of my mind?
- 02:35
Therapist
Yes. Put it out of your mind. When you're thinking about it, just stop and think about something else
- 02:42
Patient ?
that's it
- 02:44
Therapist
I suppose when it comes down to it yes that's it you you just have to put it out of your mind
- 02:50
Patient ?
I can't really you know just think about something really really really
- 03:01
Therapist ?
Wow okay then well in that case Here's someone who can sell you some crack.
- 03:12
Patient ?
Thank you.
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