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Dr. Jonathan Banks: Depression is an inability to construct a future.
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Dr. Victoria Siebert: Everybody knows everything.
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: I'm a psychiatrist, Miss Taylor. Normally, when people hit things with their car, there are skidmarks on the pavement. A brick wall is a pretty good reason to use the brakes, turn the wheel. You didn't do that.
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: She's not depressed.
Assistant District Attorney: Yeah. And you didn't catch it and someone died. And I didn't catch it and someone didn't go to jail. We failed.
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Emily Taylor: I'm not crazy, you know I'm not crazy.
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Dr. Victoria Siebert: She IS cured! You're a fucking genius.
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[first lines]
Female Guard: Front door!
Prison Desk Guard: I can't let it in unless I see it.
Upset Visitor: I know. I know what the rules are. I'm just asking if you can make an exception.
Prison Desk Guard: There are no exceptions. That's why we have rules.
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Dierdre Banks: [about taking beta blocker] Is it bad that I'm doing this?
Dr. Jonathan Banks: Everyone takes them. Lawyers, musicians - people going to interviews for big jobs. It doesn't make you anything you're not. It just makes it easier for you to be who you are.
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Martin's Mother: [reading from Emily's letter] "We go to doctors with our sadness and our faith in the hope they will guide us toward health. But instead I have gone down a path toward a misery I never could have imagined. And I have taken my loved ones with me. My only hope is that no one else follows me to this place."
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: [about electroshock] It's in our best interest that you start forgetting.
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Emily Taylor: I won't be able to tell the truth if I take anymore pills.
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Emily Taylor: Imagine everything you ever wanted shows up one day and calls itself your life. And then just when you start to believe in it - gone. And suddenly it gets very hard to imagine a future. That's depression, right?
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Emily Taylor: I read somewhere that there's a difference between tears of joy and tears of rage. Is that true? It's in the chemistry, but you can't tell by looking, they all just look like tears.
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[last lines]
Orderly: How are you doing today, Emily?
Emily Taylor: [gazing out window] Better. Much better.
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Emily Taylor: What do you doctors call faking? Malingering? Such a funny word. Girls learn to fake things at a very early age - probably around the same time that boys are learning to lie.
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour.
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: I want to start her on this. It's called an SSRI. It affects the neurotransmitter in the brain called Serotonin.
Martin Taylor: And what does that do exactly?
Dr. Jonathan Banks: It helps stop the brain from telling you you're sad.
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Dr. Jonathan Banks: [He and his wife are standing in their kitchen] It was during my residency, there was a walk-in clinic at the university. I saw her maybe three times. She called the suicide hotline every other night, even when she saw other people there. She was a paranoid schizophrenic and a drug addict, a very sick girl. She stalked me, she knew where I lived.
Dierdre Banks: She said you took her to London
Dr. Jonathan Banks: Never
Dierdre Banks: [Referring to the letter on the table] Why are they writing this?
Dr. Jonathan Banks: Their daughter committed suicide and left a very graphic note naming me. It never happened. Look, it's not unusual for there to be emotional transference between a patient and a therapist.
Dierdre Banks: [Referring again to the letter] 'Had you perform oral sex in your car'?
Dr. Jonathan Banks: Never! It was a fantasy.
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