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  • The story of life is like sailing

  • the water rushing past the keel

  • it trails ever distant and is all too soon more behind us than ahead and

  • with the voyage of time

  • fade our chances of finding what has been lost or ever getting that which has never been

  • Love and happiness may be fleeting or elusive or evasive and not always attained

  • This is one of those stories of one life hoping for a second chance in

  • the eternal quest for love and happiness

  • Los

  • There are lots of kinds of losses

  • What are some losses that you guys might have experienced I lost my virginity not the kind of loss I meant

  • Some losses are

  • significant

  • Life-changing events, aren't they some mother's father's lessons. I lost my mother

  • This place if she were still alive

  • Excuse me, what about the loss that comes from being sick with a serious mental illness?

  • That kind of messes up your life, doesn't it?

  • Did you guys I've been in this hospital?

  • You're all too familiar with the problems that you have and how you think and how you feel?

  • But there's something else going on it is called

  • Grieving now, this is something that everyone experiences

  • Whether they're aware of it or not, and there are some well-known stages of grief anger and depression

  • Two most problematic anger

  • Whoo?

  • This is a difficult

  • Emotion to handle even if you're not sick any you guys feel angry about your illness. I'm not angry

  • So I guess I don't belong here Rogers sit down if there's anyone who needs to be here, it's you

  • Yeah, if we have to be here then you have to be here

  • whoa

  • Hey chill sit down sit down sit down sit

  • Let's just let's pick this up tomorrow, okay

  • You okay doc you look a little bummed out

  • Never better

  • David

  • Hi Karl, so, you know about Roger I

  • Mean you better call in case conference and get some PR NZ. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks Karl. I'll do just that

  • Yeah

  • Duck wait a minute. How about a nice home-cooked meal some good company. I

  • I don't think that's a good idea Sally

  • I thought it was

  • My dearest darling David

  • I don't know when you will find this letter and I hope that when you do

  • Enough time has passed that you have done your grieving and have gotten beyond the pain. I

  • Never want you to forget me, but I don't want to keep you from ever being happy again

  • Going dude I or something I could have broken an arm or a leg or something then it couldn't work. And what would I've done?

  • I think this is yours

  • What

  • Good morning

  • Your favorite patient busted out a window this morning thanks, I'll take care of it that's good because I put him in your office

  • I've been a bad boy, huh?

  • I've been sent to the principal's office Roger. You're not a kid in school. And this this isn't disciplinary. I

  • Shouldn't be here. I didn't do nothing

  • Reality check you

  • Assaulted someone which got you into this hospital in the first place here. You hit a patient and you just broke out a window

  • I wouldn't call that nothing

  • He was listening to my thoughts

  • My mind is my mind if you don't mind Roger that is your illness talking now

  • The meds are gonna help with that, but you gotta take them. That's all part of your plan. Goodbye doctor

  • I'm outta here. You don't stop and you are out of here like for real

  • What did you say

  • I said if you don't take your meds

  • You'll be sent back to the mental health unit at County Jail and from there to state prison

  • You don't play fair, I think I do

  • The decision is yours frankly in my opinion. It's a no-brainer

  • Come on take the meds work with me account. What was that? I

  • Said I'll take them. Okay?

  • Can I go now?

  • You can go

  • Talk what am I doing?

  • Excuse me. I'm looking for a young

  • Woman

  • She's usually right around here I think I think that she might be homeless

  • That's it. Young women around you. Yes dark hair on that boots

  • She might be an artist but you want with her phone

  • You like that homeless pussy. You know what? I think I made a mistake, okay?

  • Okay, don't give up that easy

  • She

  • Man, you ain't got no clothes. You want to find it. You're gonna have to try harder than that

  • That info you want is a highly confidential

  • Sensitive date, you know First Amendment rights and all that shit, not your typical hand

  • Give it up me

  • Okay, listen if you must know I found something her tonight I want to return it you paid good money

  • Yeah return if we yeah. Yeah, that's okay. I think I'll do it. Um

  • Do you know where I can find her?

  • You see him. That's not a simple answer. I don't think about it Oh

  • Ramifications and the cases that we go of in the universe you see there. I am right there

  • Yeah

  • If it goes down good not a man that goes down bad. I'm the shit. Oh

  • No, no, no

  • Ain't worth the risk sucker. I

  • Give up

  • Somebody looking for you

  • know

  • Some white dude says he has something to return to you, you know a white boy is hot for you where the cure

  • But TV thing kind of stir like ah

  • Sound it

  • You're saying broken give it

  • Now it is hey you didn't say anything to him did you

  • This will be absolutely perfect Welles befo boo

  • Maddie

  • Thinking you need to find the beauty in the book dude in go

  • Hello, oh hey Sally listen I'm driving right now I can't really talk he's taking them great. I'll be right

  • Good brandy the poetry therapy's really work and keep it up if you believe you can achieve

  • I'm too little old for that. See you tomorrow Sally

  • Hello hello

  • What the hell are you doing

  • Take it easy get the hell. Oh

  • You may now take your leave now get the hell out of here so I'll have to call reinforcements reinforcements. Oh

  • Jesus hey, that's intentional

  • I

  • Miss her dog. I miss her so bad. She was the prettiest girl

  • I ever saw I couldn't stop looking at her. It was love at first sight

  • I thought I'd live the rest of my life with her. Love at first sight the world is so bright fit nevertheless

  • Or does it stand? Well, what was she like the person I don't know dog. I only saw her one time what?

  • 43 years 7 months 8 days

  • 14 hours

  • 16 minutes and so said it's almost funny. So standing of her you never got to know her. I took a picture of her

  • You should have listened to her thoughts instead of your heart

  • They are never who you think they are, you know that can also work their other way around

  • But you're right. You gotta get to know them. She's been married already. She's had kids. She said 30 grandchildren

  • She's old and fat don't do this guys. Probably didn't bury a freaking goat. You guys are cruel

  • Oh guys guys, it's okay. It's okay. Let him go he needs some time alone. He needs some time to cry

  • Trash my trash and you're gonna keep your filthy hands out of there. No way dude once it's in the kit

  • Please I don't want to take you Jesus. Hi, hi. Hi. Can I help look this doesn't concern you and you're not involved

  • I'm dr. Meyers and

  • This woman's a patient sure look we've got ordinances in the city against loitering and against littering

  • We also seem to have an issue here with being a public nuisance wanna take him in for harassing the consensus of this society

  • would you just

  • Stop it for a second. She's in a new

  • innovative program at the hospital for

  • obsessive

  • kleptomania, which is really it's an impulse control disorder and an inability to to to stave off the urge to scavenge which is actually a

  • Subcategory of the main disorder which is to steal which incidentally enough. She's not doing with the public trash

  • The treatment for which is basically, you know a patient does it over and over and over to endless absurdity?

  • So much so that they get so sick and tired of it. They just they just stopped. Anyway, thank you for your understanding

  • I'm really sorry if she bothered you and um

  • You know, we'll just we'll be we'll be taking our leave now

  • You are gonna leave it now

  • I'm not an obsessive thoughts. Maniac. I'm I'm an artist. I know what every

  • Did you think all that just to get me to have lunch with you

  • I'm David. What's your name? Let's not get too personal

  • You can't smoke a joint in here I got a prescription put it away

  • You

  • Know you really need to relax

  • What was that for

  • Get you some water thank you. I'll be right back

  • So here we are yep

  • So have you lived on your

  • Where you your place have you lived in place long? It's all the questions. I'm just trying to make conversation

  • Really

  • How you like all the questions yeah, I my situation change so

  • What happened did your life 3 around

  • Ok, how do you knew it? I'm with Matt. I'll barbecue banking

  • She's very you can actually just put it on sliced white bread would be more of like a patty mount

  • Alright, and if you could if used to like extra man

  • just like just just

  • Right on there box or protons in love girl the onions and you know everybody bag on there just right on top

  • Is that gonna be it? Yeah, I think so and you ready I

  • Just have a salmon burger. Okay?

  • Anything to drink?

  • Hello drink, you know babies you take a diet coke

  • Thank You patty

  • What was what

  • a football

  • Nervous

  • On meds I

  • Mean other than the what do you call it?

  • There was none of your damn business what I'm on are you always in people's business and telling them what to do

  • Yeah, sometimes great. Don't you shouldn't drink alcohol

  • If you're on psychotropic medication judging that little shape you had you may have a touch of tardive dyskinesia. Oh sure. I

  • Didn't let you take me to lunch just have a doctor's plan and thanks. No. No, I'm not a medical doctor

  • I'm a psychologist. You guys are crazy. I'm out of here. No, no, wait. I'm sorry. I'm sorry

  • There's no I know I didn't say that was I one said it was just I just didn't bring you here finds me

  • So, why did you take me here anyway I

  • Don't know I just

  • What does someone like you own someone like me I thought maybe I

  • Just like you're gonna do make a bet about it

  • You are with someone weren't you

  • That's why you wouldn't have dinner with me. I think they even work in here too long Sally. I didn't realize paranoia was catching

  • I'm not doing that doc. You have to get over it

  • You want to be mired in your misery? I?

  • do not want to be

  • Mired in my misery no dates. No women you want to be all alone

  • You have been working here too long

  • The dinner offers still good

  • And drink coffee I

  • Mean do you DTF?

  • Jesus what good is that? It's like the pot THC. Okay. I'll have what you have good bit dangerously

  • Did you paint this do you think did it

  • This is good

  • No, it's not yeah it is I mean there's pathos tension drama

  • All right. This isn't a Rorschach test. Okay doctor psychologist

  • What I see is for me to known for you to none your damn business

  • Try to discombobulation pretty sure not even

  • Don't take a hand it'll relax you

  • We smoke to get high or does it does it help you is there a difference

  • All right, you really want to know yeah

  • the demons

  • Keeps the demons away. It keeps the demons away

  • Haunting horrible things that come at night they want to fuck me

  • Tonight, I'm sorry

  • That must be awful it is

  • Never told anyone that before

  • Relax relax

  • I'm sorry. I are you serious?

  • For

  • 6:47

  • Call David come on push them push them. Come on. Give me one more you

  • Last time come on. Yeah, that was last time this time. I'm tired

  • Why are you tired? No, I'm tired look at me I'm old and I'm tired and I keep on going ouch

  • No physical activity is the best thing for depression. I'm not depressed Karl. I'm just tired

  • What do you think about synchronicity that's police album ever sting is awesome

  • I think he means when seemingly unrelated events don't happen by chance

  • Like mailing a letter and meeting someone that you never would have met a door opens. The path is revealed the world moves in mysterious

  • synchronistic ways and in this mysterious

  • synchronistic world

  • Does one follow a path?

  • It's never a simple answer. Yeah, I heard that recently cost me 10 bucks make that 11

  • Hey, you got a key, but I got a freebie for you

  • Calls custom knitter and great offer one said look at every path closely deliberately chart as many times as you feel necessary

  • Then ask yourself one question

  • Which is the path have heart if it doesn't is good if it doesn't and it's of no use to you

  • Just a path have heart

  • Yeah, just a path have heart you should go for you

  • now as your mother squats

  • You are like a bad dream. Hey, I'm good with dreams we can work on that. You're pretty dense for a shrink

  • I feel sorry for your patients. Yeah, me too

  • Okay, let me see how I put it in simple terms that you can understand first. I never wanted to meet you and second

  • I never want to see you again. I know I shouldn't barge in

  • I know I know that I was I was driving by and I just I thought I'd say hello

  • Okay, great. Yeah, he'll know bye-bye. No, no, please. I don't want to be alone, please

  • That was cool was it was there as a wrap?

  • Come out here and let's go

  • Okay

  • This is when they throw out all the day-old baked stuff all the outdated cans all the soggy vegetables all sorts of goodies

  • You never know. You're gonna find that's the beauty of it. Listen. You're gonna get in trouble again

  • Okay, and next time I may not be there to help you out. No, they know we're doing their cool thing

  • That's amore part of the cycle. You know, they throw it out. We take it in. Everyone's having

  • organism

  • Have you ever heard of freaking ism?

  • Google, it you'll learn something

  • I'm lucky when I have a place

  • Wanna come in for a while. I got decaf I

  • Can't believe I'm gonna say no, but it's been a long day and a long night not got another morning meeting at the hospital

  • Come on

  • Please

  • You're killing me tomorrow

  • Sounds good not to

  • Hey Ziggy, hey, what are you doing? Oh, you know I noticed you don't wanna

  • Close, right?

  • No

  • Are you gonna keep the place up, you know?

  • Keep the riffraff out

  • I'm fine. No worries. You know I should have put some damn Bose on your bill, you know, don't worry

  • I I get you some really good wasn't

  • No, really, I'm good. You don't even have to bother a win-win what?

  • You know nothing that happened tomorrow my little girl

  • Who's he for the millionth time? I am NOT a little girl. I

  • mean like you

  • He was really special to me

  • You got no

  • No felt anything like I do for you like for

  • Anybody else

  • Me to Zeke you're a real special friend

  • What's next she could get back to work

  • See you later alligator

  • Oh

  • God you scared me

  • I'm sorry

  • That's pretty nice isn't it? Why are mannequins this skinny

  • It's gonna look great on you. My god is fine

  • What you got this whole thing is not fine

  • If I want something I'll get something

  • dumpster

  • Jesus are you trying to change me? No, it's just what you wear says a lot about

  • Who you are, you know, I mean certain people take one. Look at you. Yeah, I'm adorable. They're gonna see

  • You are adorable. I'm me and I'm fine without you can go fuck yourself

  • Right

  • Thank you, it could be some props right now, aren't you? Yes, I do. I do know what I'm talking about

  • My art should be someday maybe it will be

  • How are you on the streets, I mean I know you got a place and everything but

  • no, no, I

  • Ran away from home when I was 14. That's young

  • Now shrinks. No, there's a reason for everything. Right right. I want to talk about it. No

  • What about you

  • Well, you know it's rare for anyone to go through life unscathed I mean it's kind of like you said, you know, everybody's got something

  • You want to talk about it?

  • Not really

  • Are you sure there's nothing you want aside to me bad?

  • Yeah that oh, yeah that

  • I'd rather not I think we need to don't you

  • My wife died

  • She died 11 months ago from cancer

  • I'm sorry

  • Yeah

  • Guaranteed doctor's orders

  • Bad sense that they're beautiful

  • Why doesn't the moon's that like the Sun

  • Maybe it's cuz the moon's cold and the sun's fiery

  • I like you with me, huh?

  • Thanks, I still don't know your name

  • Alais, my name is Pillai

  • Three

  • Hey Carl, yeah sure use a break

  • Man the world looks so beautiful from up here. Yeah, that's because you can't see what's going on down there

  • You miss grupe that egg that's not like you yeah, I know

  • Overslept

  • Sorry

  • Well, David

  • Well, no. Oh, he's tired. Lots of appetite

  • Shirking your responsibilities. It sounds like depression. No way Carl. Come on, man. I am the furthest thing

  • Alright, you can imagine from you are entering the manic theta

  • You should know can't someone be tired not hungry feel good, and it not be a clinical issue

  • Alright, well if it's not that what is it, then does it always have to be something?

  • Gonna get that. No, it's okay. It'll go to voice my sister. No

  • Yeah

  • Okay

  • Listen I can't really talk right now. I'm do you miss me?

  • Yeah, I miss you

  • Under the stars

  • Oh

  • God, I would love to but I just got in right now and I can't get away

  • I'm working remember me, too, but you know what? I am willing to take time out from the Dempster's come on

  • I promise we'll have a good time. Listen Kylie. I really can

  • You know, maybe I don't miss you after all oh

  • Come on Polly. Don't be that way. Listen. I'll call you after work. Yeah, don't worry about it

  • Shit

  • Everything all right

  • Yeah, yeah now it's the call dropped you seem upset come on what's wrong

  • No, it's nothing important. It's just

  • Look I gotta go David We Need to Talk listen. No, we will we will I gotta go

  • Look sexy as hell in them jeans baby you like I like a lot

  • What does that a come on

  • Remember

  • Funny

  • Just yo says yeah good fine, right

  • Did fine what's the dumpster behind a clothing store

  • All right. Someone got him for me. Okay?

  • Now is someone do something like that do something fun

  • You know, I did not do something for him

  • Why do mom

  • Yeah, the way dude. There's nothing there anywhere it pissed me off. It's over

  • You've really done

  • Yeah, like stick a fork and a gun

  • show show

  • Got you a nice pair jeans stop. That's enough. Stop get off me

  • Take care you

  • Know nope, Oh mr. P what's going on?

  • Never happens again, you understand me just leave him alone

  • You said you weren't coming over I said after work no, you said he would call after work

  • And you said he was just a friend he is just a friend

  • You know, what? Why am I always having to arrest you? You always have to rescue me

  • Just sometimes we get in situations where we don't have a choice David. You don't always have a choice. We always have choices pille

  • He's so damn self righteous. Dude. You've never been on the streets. You don't know what it's like

  • We can't live like you doctors can

  • Don't go I'm sorry, don't go

  • You know for me physical intimacy is for when two people who care about each other deeply share themselves because of love

  • Do you feel making them to me is cheating on your wife. Don't go there play, please please don't go there

  • It's really sweet really it's really sweet

  • I know you loved her. I know you were faithful to her, but she's gone. She's gone now

  • Hello Jane there white boy

  • No, I think it'd be better for the both of us if you

  • Get us out of here. I

  • Don't think so Zeke

  • Yeah, I think so

  • You see

  • This is my world

  • And this is pails

  • And you ain't got no place is this really your world Zeke

  • Hey

  • It is

  • Cuz his pussies like you to get mo fraida who done three tours in Iraq

  • Singlish

  • no mass you see

  • Done

  • No magic, I'm not scared of you Zeke

  • You see they all go on like you go then it's back to old seeking always

  • Back no Zeki

  • Kisuke could have camphor

  • Yeah, well if all Zeki cared about her so much

  • Maybe you let me help her

  • you see

  • That's what I'm afraid of

  • You help her?

  • hawlucha

  • No fucking way that's going on

  • Nothing's the matter really

  • I'm a nurse

  • don't you think I know when someone's hurting but

  • You need some TLC. Listen. I know that you care about me and I really appreciate it

  • But maybe you need someone to talk to everyone's always dumping on you. But who do you have?

  • Thank you. That's it's not something. I really want to talk about

  • Whoever it is in whatever it's about. You don't need the hurt

  • Obviously it's not working and I'm guessing that it's complicated and messy

  • It wouldn't be that way with us Sally. I'd like you

  • Just

  • Not in the way that you want me to

  • I'm so sorry

  • I'm sorry guys. Do you mind if we just skip group today? If you could just please?

  • Hey Stan, sure, Joe

  • How come you never went after I thought she didn't want me

  • It's haunted me all my life. I don't wish it on anyone

  • Thanks Stan

  • Look sorry doesn't cut it you just run out on me like that

  • How can I trust you're gonna be there for me be there for you? Okay, I promise

  • Everyone else. I don't need you or anything else

  • Okay, you know I get it but just there's something I want you to see

  • Okay, would you just would you come with me now, please?

  • Why are you always telling me what to do? I'm not telling you I'm asking you

  • Where you take me you'll see

  • Are we doing here muttering in trouble? No, we're not gonna get in trouble

  • Wait, why do you have the keys whose pad is this? Anyway, it's yours

  • And you get to pick the furniture. Oh

  • Yes. Sure. Come on. Will you take me home you cannot use the real toilet?

  • And hot and cold running water

  • You're gonna like this place

  • In the bathroom, no in the apartment. It's yours. You trying to change me again. I wouldn't think of it. I

  • Make my place home. I understand

  • Look, even if they work the dumpsters night dad couldn't afford this. Okay

  • So let's just go someday you will will you sell your artwork?

  • But for now I'm paying for but no I will not be a kept woman. It wouldn't be like that. Hey, I'm outta here

  • Let's go. Whoa. Whoa, you almost ran into your easel

  • What

  • Your arts to you, how are you talking about your easels they're

  • Cabinet trigger paints and brushes table for your sculptures

  • You're welcome

  • Ah

  • Baby what are you doing here tap? You see me now Lisa for you

  • Can I come in

  • It's quite a place

  • Sure have made it out streets must be big bucks

  • Now no, you ain't got that kind of dough so you must be paying for somehow. Yeah, I'm gonna sell some of my paintings

  • Trebor shit

  • She loves me too

  • And I don't see it's different

  • It's no different

  • and just because I

  • Can't afford or dr. Whitey can told me not don't I'm sorry, but it is different

  • Do you love him?

  • Give me that. Hey stop give me that

  • Come on pick up pick up pick up

  • Where are you going? You have your group in 20 minutes do it Sally they'll love you

  • It's my baby you call him again

  • No, he goes, oh wait one way or the other

  • Palay it's me. It's david open up

  • Play

  • Are you in there?

  • Please just go away

  • What do you mean go away?

  • Open the door

  • Hey

  • Who's there Palais it's me, it's David. Oh my god. What are you doing here? You can't be here

  • We have to talk please. No, David, please just go away. I won't

  • I'm staying until you open the door fine. So stay

  • Fine

  • Never kids did you

  • No, no, she couldn't turn a little girl

  • Make sure she's a happy

  • Sure you would he doesn't have to be girl no guys always won't have a son

  • Too old for that right? Like all guys can solve and still do all that whoa, whoa

  • I'm not that much fun and

  • Ever actually, yeah, you're pretty fun old man

  • Oh

  • Your breasts

  • Thank you for again on man, who are you calling old man

  • All on your path I

  • Guess you could say that

  • Well, they tell me about her

  • There's nothing to tell you're trying to rescue her

  • Maybe in the beginning I wanna tell you something. This is not my fair lady

  • You are not gonna make a duchess out of that crazy pot-smoking homeless piece of street trash

  • You know that, you know the story of Pygmalion

  • Do you know this story? I know the story

  • It's a myth David Bailey is not a myth. She is for real. Yeah, so is getting this shit me daddy

  • All I know is she makes me laugh and cry and smile and feel good. She's passionate and she loves me Carl

  • For the first time since Ellen died. I'm happy

  • You've got to let her go or next time he could kill you David. I

  • Got a second chance

  • Carl and there is no way in hell that I'm letting that go

  • I

  • Think you could work a little harder, don't you?

  • Good I'm gonna hold you to that. Okay? Okay. Get out of here

  • And I want that list

  • No, oh my god, this is dr. Myers, I gotta start my own

  • I'm not gonna hurt you. I just want to talk. Ah, you're right. What are you doing here?

  • I can't take what this does to me anymore and

  • What I did to you you almost kill me and now you want me to help you I do

  • Okay, I know

  • I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, but you know how I feel about it

  • I was I was crazy jealous, but it was the it was the people PTSD. This would be a highly unusual

  • and irregular arrangement

  • Hey, hey, Dad, what you got what a night

  • Huh?

  • You want to let yourself be hospitalized

  • Take medication therapy will not be easy. You'll have to

  • Let yourself

  • re-experience the traumas

  • It'll be emotionally painful

  • Do you think you can handle that I

  • Got the Whalen back with you

  • Hmm

  • Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, okay

  • Don't you don't hurt me again?

  • Okay taking the front desk I haven't see Salish you'll know what to do. Okay. Thank you

  • I'm sorry, baby

  • Fuck a seeker. He wants me to treat him

  • What

  • How could you do that? After what he did to you? He should be locked up. He nuts. Yeah, maybe

  • But you know, we sent him over there and they come back all messed up. Somebody's got to pick up the pieces

  • You're amazing. Mm-hmm big good then well, I don't know about that

  • Would you want to try

  • Why would you would you want to have a baby I

  • Don't know scares the hell out of me

  • Especially if it's a girl I thought you wanted a girl

  • Things happen to little girls what things I

  • Don't know things

  • Nothing forget I said anything. Okay. Oh stop it

  • What don't worry about it?

  • Okay

  • Talk to me

  • What

  • That's something I even told you

  • Or anyone

  • Well, you told me about the demon this is not about the demons

  • It's about why the demons that's what to do about the demons is important

  • She's nothing you can do about them

  • I'll never leave

  • Things happen, you can't change that. Yeah, that's true. You can't change what happened but

  • You can change how you feel about what happened

  • Lie back lie, just lie back close

  • Your eyes

  • Okay, this is therapy, isn't it is it gonna hurt no take a deep breath

  • Take a deep breath in

  • Hold it

  • And as you do you feel the wave of relaxation move through you?

  • From the top of your head all the way down to your toes

  • Just feel it as you go deeper and deeper

  • Okay, you try to hypnotize me, but they can't be hypnotized

  • I was in Vegas ones and they wanted people to come up on stage and Kay hypnotized to do stupid stuff and they can do

  • at me and it's not gonna work, so I would just let you I just you just

  • I'm beginning to think that you don't want to get rid of your demons

  • I am in your power. I mean, okay, okay

  • One more deep breath in

  • Okay, you're standing at the top of a stairway

  • You're gonna walk down the steps one by one

  • And as you do you can feel yourself

  • Deeper and deeper more and more relaxed

  • Let me know when you get to the bottom of the stairs

  • Hey good in front of you is a doorway

  • Open it

  • And when you pass through it, you'll be back in time

  • You'll see yourself from a time long ago when you were a little girl

  • Perhaps it's time when something made you feel very uncomfortable

  • Maybe it upset you terribly. Maybe it even hurt you

  • It's okay to open that door

  • Don't tell me what you see

  • But I want you to observe yourself as the person that you are now a

  • Knowledgeable intelligent mature adult

  • Have her tell you how she's feeling tell her she has every right to those feelings

  • I want you to ask yourself

  • With everything, you know as a grownup

  • Are those feelings helpful or useful to you now? No

  • right

  • those bad feelings are no longer necessary and you can just

  • Let go of them

  • you don't have to keep them anymore and

  • It will feel so good to let them go. Yes

  • Now your job is to help her know

  • That it was not her fault what happened

  • That's a very cute little girl

  • There's a little princess, but it was no excuse for what he did

  • You were just a little girl and

  • He was a big strong

  • Grown-up man who beats you and threatened you if you didn't do what he wanted

  • There was nothing you could have done about it nothing

  • You fucking asshole I hate you I hate you

  • There's an empty place in my heart it's waiting for you you can live there forever

  • Notice how good it feels to have her there

  • Feel all the warm good feelings that come with this

  • And you can open your eyes

  • Setting free. Could you be

  • The day will come your broken will be mended

  • Oh

  • We know it will be

  • And then she tells me about her abuse as a little girl she should see someone she did see someone

  • Don't tell me okay. I won't David doctors have been stooping their patients at the beginning of time

  • You know, there's very strict rules about that cut. She's not my patient. Yeah, that's a pretty fine line

  • I did the Ethics Board to come up against that

  • It went well it went incredibly well I

  • Mean it was spontaneous and she was really ready for an intervention. I

  • Mean we made we made progress. We made such incredible progress

  • Would you mind if I give you some advice

  • She's doing as well as you say she is and I have no reason to doubt that that's the truth

  • You've got to give her time to process it

  • To see how she feels about it what she's gonna do with it where she's gonna go

  • You have to give her that you know you do

  • And you know what that means

  • So this, isn't it this is this is where you live yeah, we look around

  • Hungry starving

  • Jerris darling Ellen

  • Thank you for freeing me. Oh, I don't didn't want someone she's very different from you. And I think you'd like her I

  • Hope so because I love her

  • So I'll always be a place for you in my heart I will always love you, goodbye Marie darling David

  • You know

  • If I had never written her those letters you and I would never have met

  • She didn't die, I mean every man I

  • Know

  • Would you mind if I give you some advice she needs time to process it

  • Kind of taken it

  • But you gotta let her go

  • You always live your life

  • Reacting to what happened to you

  • No

  • no, it's

  • Well, I need you understand that you're different now

  • You're gonna see and feel things differently, you know, baby

  • It's not good. Let me enjoy our breakfast now. I mean, you may not even want me anymore you

  • Out of your mind, of course. I want you. You could never not want you. It's the right thing to do to give it

  • to give us

  • Some time

  • What are you saying I'm saying that I may not even be on that path with you

  • you

  • Are you breaking up with me?

  • I'm sorry

  • And I'm doing what's best for you, okay

  • If that's if that's what this means then forget it, I need to just change me back. Just turn me back right now. I

  • That's not the way this works

  • Let's see

  • This is not what I want to do, you know you're doing what every other man has ever done in my life

  • They fuck me and then they don't give a damn about me

  • You fucked me I hope you're happy

  • Pull a that's not it God you were like this good guy that actually liked me and cared about me and respected me

  • And glad they're all my faults and all my craziness

  • I mean

  • it just had all these broken pieces of me that I never thought could ever be put back together until I met you you make

  • Me feel whole you make me feel

  • Normal it's so complicated. Yes. I am I David

  • Thank you for everything

  • Hey, buddy

  • If you love someone set them free if they return it's meant to be

  • Don't be a schnook you can't count on that you gotta go after her

  • Thanks, buddy

  • It's gonna be a habit yeah must be my karma

  • I think what you told me to do and now she's gone did what you had to do. God. You're such a shrink

  • So they really obtain forgiveness

  • You know what? Sometimes you just gotta follow your heart. Give me my crutches

  • Watch the branches

  • I already lost one love

  • I'm not gonna lose another it's no fucking way. That's gonna happen

  • Sometimes we get lucky and life gives us a second chance

  • Maybe it's happenstance

  • Or maybe it's synchronicity

  • All we know is that sometimes it happens

  • But it happens only if you follow our path and

  • The path has heart

  • You

  • Bad by chance like as we can breathe

  • But even some die-cuts

  • Me and setting free could you

  • The day was calm

  • So

  • There's great stuff in here

  • Your shirt look at that lettuce

  • perfectly fine

  • All right. Look at that. See still good. It is sweet. All right

  • craigers

  • You assholes

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