The first season on Renren didn't have a high-definition version, so I watched the second and third seasons, but since it's a unit drama, it didn't affect the plot coherence.
April:
This girl who loves to smile is very distressing. She is an ordinary girl who is a graduate student in architecture and has just experienced a lovelorn. Although her parents have given most of their energy and care to her autistic brother, April Very understandable, she also loves her brother very much.
This originally plain and simple life was completely changed by a cancer, so April came to Paul. April chose to come here to talk, but he was unwilling to receive treatment. This is the first choice for many people in the face of major unfortunate news. Response: Do not accept, do not respond. I thought that as long as I didn't face it, I didn't accept it, the bad news would disappear, the cancer would disappear, and the loss would be regained.
Because of her brother's autism, her parents gave almost all their love and care to her brother. This did not make April jealous or blamed her parents, but made her very sensible and independent since she was a child, and was very considerate of others. At the age of 12, she once fell from the second floor, but she held back the pain and did not cry, in order to prevent her parents from finding out and spoil her mother's joy of traveling for the first time after her brother became ill. April often sees the world from her brother's point of view, this terrible and incomprehensible world, so she takes care of her brother's feelings everywhere.
However, the girl who took care of everyone did not take care of herself. She was reluctant to undergo chemotherapy and was reluctant to tell her parents the news. In her opinion, in such a family, she must take good care of herself and not let her troubles bother her parents. This made Paul very anxious. He felt sorry for her and wanted to help her. But April stubbornly refuses anyone's help, because she is afraid and afraid of accepting help from others, and she will make herself depend on others, and this "other" cannot be depended on forever and is always reliable.
Fortunately, April's parents still knew about her condition. April still received treatment, and the chemotherapy effect was also good, although April stopped psychological treatment.
Oliver:
Oliver is an introverted and quiet child. He is often bullied by his classmates at school. His parents, Bess and Luke, have just divorced, but they love him very much, because they are afraid that the divorce will bring a bad impression to the children, so they bring Oliver to Paul's Clinic.
From the perspective of child development psychology, children have much more needs for a complete home and a sense of security than adults. Parental divorce is a huge change for children. Oliver felt deeply helpless and fearful in the face of the broken family, and he hoped that his actions would bring the family back to the way it was before, until finally his mother Bess decided to take him away from the city where he lived to seek work. Thoroughly realize that parents will never go back to the way they were, and that the home will never be the way it was. So he felt angry, lonely, helpless, abandoned. For these his parents can do nothing, and Pau can do nothing... I just hope that when Oliver grows up, there will be no complete family, but no lack of love.
Paul
As a psychiatrist, I am both surprised and understood that Paul's life was a mess and his father had left him since he was a child. Paul lived with his severely depressed mother since he was a child. He hated his father and complained that his father had thrown all the burdens and responsibilities of life on him and abandoned him. He was divorced from his wife, he seemed unable to love or be loved, and loneliness seemed to suit him best. As he listened to each patient's problems, their desperation, and tried to figure out the crux of the problem, he himself had a pile of problems and desperation to talk to. He also had behavioral patterns, cognitive patterns, and misattributions that he couldn't change that made him live a lonely, lonely, and unhappy life.
I was deeply impressed that Paul asked the tutor how the family relationship was, and the tutor replied, what do you think, why did I study psychology. It seems that people who are completely mentally healthy will not pay attention to psychology. Only those who have some minor psychological problems, or who have important people around them, will ask questions about their psychology, why they are so insecure, why they cannot love or Being loved, why I can't find my belonging, why I always feel unhappy... Because of these problems, I want to find answers, and even use psychological therapy to help others.
What's the point of psychotherapy, spending an hour a week and paying a lot of money just to chat for an hour with a stranger? The heart-to-heart consultation did not give us a clear answer. At the end of the season, Walter and Mia chose to continue the treatment. Oliver moved away because of the move, and April chose to end the treatment. They confided their problems to Paul through the treatment, or discovered the depth of their problems. Hierarchical roots, but the problem is still there, those pains, those confusions, those behavior patterns that make them unhappy still exist, this has become a habit, a conditioned reflex for them to deal with life and the outside world, even if they have Aware of his own problems, Paul has not been able to completely change them, of course, perhaps because the plot only wants to show the process of discovering the problem, and there is no space to show the process of change.
I think the mental state can be changed. After all, she is under our own control. The psychologist gives the method and direction, but the road of change still needs to be completed by yourself. After all, whether you take those difficult steps depends on your own courage, Hope and determination.
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