If I became sick, what would you do for it? |
If you were sick? |
I mean if... |
Well, since you are still young, I wouldn’t use any medical treatment for such minor symptoms... the way one uses medicine to cure disease. |
Why wouldn’t you use them? |
Lain, you already have the power to recover your health from disease. |
If you depend on using those medicines, however, your body becomes weaker. |
Usually children shouldn’t take medicine too much anyway. |
So what are you going to do? |
Let’s see... I will use psychotherapy to help you, like talking with you as we do now. |
Just talking? |
Hmm, it’s difficult to explain it. For example, we have a program to recover people from alcoholism. |
In this program, they discuss and present what make them drink so much and listen to each other’s stories. |
We call it "group therapy." I don’t like it though. |
Why you don’t like it? |
I think people who regain their health from those group therapies would make the same mistakes later. |
They think that they can recover themselves from alcoholism simply by group conversation, but when they are alone, they will start drinking again. |
I’ve seen this happen a lot. |
So what would you do? |
I try to talk one-on-one as I do with you, Lain. |
And? |
And then, I suggest those patients to think about themselves. |
I have nothing particular to support them but I try to analyze what they think on neutral ground. |
This helps them to recognize what is wrong with themselves, and then they try to recover their own health. |
We call it "non-supportive psychotherapy". |
If they start recognizing there is a problem, it means they are already fine. |
Is that enough to recover them from diseases? Sound simple! |
Right, it sounds so simple. |
In fact, however, those things are more complicated and difficult to do than you think. |
Difficult? |
(yawn) I’m sorry. I need more sleep. |
You must be tired. Should you take a break? |