Understand

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[note: this is an all-dialogue setting. before you begin, please know this. also, the two characters exchanging conversation are a therapist and one of her patients.]


one; understand
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"They tell me that you are depressed."

"If that's the scientific word for it, then yes, I guess you could say that."

"Care to explain why?"

"I can't say; not exactly. Too many things, I suppose. But I do know that I'll never be happy again."

"That isn't true."

"Yes, it is."

"And why do you think that?"

"Because I screwed up."

"How so?"

"Because I screw a lot of things up."

"This isn't the time to feel sorry for yourself."

"I'm not."

"My dear, I think you are."

"You don't know me."

"I know that you are simply confused."

"And I know that you simply don't understand what I'm going through."

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