Good morning or night, Doctor. You speak a lot about fixing and rehabilitating your patients. What is the actual process? How do you know that it's worked?
"Oh, it is quite a simple process. One that I had written several papers on and centered by dissertation around. The method of it relies of the fundamental and core belief that the insanity is a symptom of a larger problem, not simply a cause of pains and hardship."
"That problem, then being that people are liars, whether they consciously realize it or not, humans do so love to hide beneath the veneer of being sane and normal and rational. There is an expectation in and around life, of how those within it must conduct themselves in order to survive it."
"To smile and wave. To hold your breath. To become the reflection of what others project onto you. It turns life into a maze of mirrors, build inside of a house of cards."
The corners of his lips turn down, as his mouth fights against the instinct to sneer. How sure of themselves, all these people and their lies are. How pathetic it is, that they think they are getting away with it. How disappointing is it, when they do.
Children are taught their manners from a very young age, taught and training to fit into the world in a way that is acceptable. But the world and its boxes were built by children- all grown up and having been through the gauntlet to survive- but children nonetheless.
After all, the lines between mature and immature are only drawn by how well crafted the lies are.
"The insanity that we treat here is no more than a fracture in that mirror. The disconnect between what is wanted and what can be given, causing the subject to spiral into a false reality of their own. This reality, the reality that lunatics run from, is not more real than the ones in their heads, but it is the one that is more generally accepted for all the niceties and social conventions built around it.
"The solution to this problem, then, is not to simply drag them back into this reality. They will never accept this lie, now that they have seen outside of it. The solution is to inside lift the blindfold from their eyes until they recognize the foundation that these worlds are built on are lies."
"By reducing these grand ideas of who they are down to nothing, you open the floor for the a new self to be built upon it. To allow the patient, under a doctor's supervision, of course, to select which lies they wish to believe next. To provide them a blank canvas waiting to be filled with color."
Jonathan picks up a pen, already beginning to return to his work.
"As for the ways that I reach into the mind to do such a thing, well, humans are still animals at the end of the day. And, when you peel back all the comforts they have been provided to allow for this lie to flourish, you will be left with an animal again."
"And if the world is as nasty, brutish, and short as they say, then it would only be natural for this animal to be afraid of it."
