The Therapist
This may be more of TPS‘s turf but I must say that I’ve always had this fascination with psychology. Had I been born in another place or perhaps in another time, I probably would have made use of my Biology degree to pursue studies, if not a career, in psychotherapy. Had I not been feeling that I, too, need some fixing, I probably had turned into an obnoxious friend (or somebody) who lives to dissect the lives of others and explain to their faces why they behave the way they behave.
Once, during a period of personal turmoil, I turned to self-help books and found solace in 500-pages worth of psychobabble after psychobabble. I finished a book called Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart, and though it failed to turn me into a New Ager or a Buddhist, it did give a lot of insights that I learned to appreciate. It’s P700 worth of “therapy.”
In the just-ended season of Grey’s Anatomy, Meredith Grey’s conversations with her therapist has been the one reason why I got back into watching the series. I caught these lines and I was again hooked:
You know people run away from this line between life and death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other. You’re careless with your life. You’re not slitting your wrists but you’re careless. Probably because your mother told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is you believed her. And if you don’t want out one of these days you’re going to die because of it.
- Dr. Katharine Wyatt to Meredith Grey
To have the power to say something like that. To break a person further so you can start building the puzzle. (I wonder how they sleep at night.) When Meredith finally admitted that she does need help, I wanted to join her in chorus when she said “So you think I’m broken? Fix me. Let’s go!.”
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