If the psychiatrist also has lingering troubles and many demons, what should he do? This is what Kevin Spacey's film "The Psychiatrist" brings to our minds.
I once told Xiao Zheng that I would become a psychiatrist in the future, chat with them, and try to make both parties laugh. Xiao Zheng warned me seriously: Do not be a psychiatrist! She doesn't allow it, doesn't presuppose me being a psychiatrist, she simply doesn't allow me to be a psychiatrist. Why? I got the answer from her one day, I don't want you to be suffocated by the knot of your patient's and your own heart before you untie it.
Now, if you are advised by a doctor in a certain department, "You can go to a neurologist to see if it is an autonomic nervous system disorder, just see a psychiatrist", will you be in a hurry and roar: How can I have any psychological problems? ? ! Are you neurotic?
However, I think this is a reality, everyone is sick, even if the body is not sick, the mind is also sick.
Just like some people are afraid of heights, a little height will make him dizzy; like Cecilia Cheung in "Shopaholic", he can't restrain himself and buy a lot of things without grounds, so that the whole room has only a place to sleep; like some People are afraid of the door being closed and the pressure brought by the confined space; or like Dr. Carter in "The Psychiatrist", he chats with patients and helps them, but paralyzes himself by smoking marijuana. Maybe it’s stress, maybe it’s fear, maybe it’s insecurity (well, it’s a type of fear too), I can’t give anything theoretically, maybe I should study psychology first. It's just that this is no longer something written in a book, but an inescapable thing that really exists.
So Dr. Carter has a lot of patients, an out-of-date Hollywood actress, a hilarious agent with signs of severe OCD, and an author of a best-selling thriller for insecurities... The patients chat with him, Wanting a solution, wanting to feel secure, wanting to remain faithful to his wife. And what does Dr. Henry want? What does he want every time the effects of marijuana make him dizzy? No one knew, probably not even himself, so much so that when his dead wife's psychiatrist organized a group of people who cared about Dr. Carter to write a letter asking him to quit marijuana, he tore the letter in anger. A letter full of goodwill, and left angrily. If it weren't for that TV interview, the old host asked him "why did they (those who committed suicide) commit suicide", which touched his pain, maybe many people don't know that the psychiatrist they rely on has been unable to suppress the inner demons in their hearts .
There are no clues in the whole movie, and so many characters have no connection except for "mental problems". They were linked, however, by counseling and a stylistic change by the insecure novelist. Jemma couldn't accept the fact that her mother committed suicide, skipped classes, went to the movies, glued the movie tickets to the ceiling, just because her mother once said to go to the movies together, she couldn't face herself, after smashing the mirror in the women's toilet, the teacher put her Take it to Dr. Henry. Jerry is an old patient of the psychiatrist. They used to have dinner together, but now he took the initiative to ask the doctor out for dinner, and the two talked about the past and present. Jerry stumbles across Jemma's case file and writes their stories and connections into a script.
The whole film is filled with a touch of heavy depression. No one knows why they have so much fear and anxiety, and fear and anxiety are as real as the air, lingering and unable to escape. People swinging on the line of loyalty turn down the temptation of bad girls, and stars who don't know what they're doing are still lost. After seeing the doctor's outburst on the TV talk show, Jemma finally decided to take her mother's will and let the doctor help him see what it said. Jerry's bad works written with bad emotions created an opportunity for himself to make the agent's assistant become his girlfriend, and use the story between them to show everyone's injuries.
Who rescued the doctor? I don't know, maybe it was the antiseptic drug that brought him back to life after death, maybe it was because of his good work ethic that he tried to help his patients, maybe it was the little girl who was as stubborn as himself for the dead. Self-tortured, sympathizing with each other...but I think what Henry's dad said was right about his son's dream of a sailor and a drowning man, he told his son, but the suffer must help himself. Maybe everyone is a drowning person and also has the role of a seafarer who rescues the victims.
If you become a psychiatrist, you will directly engage in related occupations. But even if not a psychiatrist, each of us treats the pain of our friends and relatives. It's just that when you have a demon in your own heart, you stubbornly guard that monster, and you will never see the garden of heaven. Some hurts may be just because we don't know how they exist, need time, need comparison, and need the comfort of others. After many laps, the most redeeming person may be ourselves or letting go.
Give to yourself.
Dedicated to all those who can't let go.
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