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NEW Dr. Marley's Therapy Thread - I'm here for you!

| Hello /u/, its me, Monica Marley, here with some potentially morbid but good news?

My father, Dr. Joseph Marley, has passed away. Nothing brutal, simply passed of old age in his sleep, which is better than what most can wish for nowadays. I've never really shared my father's mass empathy for people, but I respected it heavily. He was a man who truly wanted to help people...which was true even in his dying wish.

His final wish was: to have his consciousness uploaded to the Matrix.


| He wanted to do so because he didn't want his lifetime of accumulated experience as a therapist to go to waste. In life, the last few years have been difficult to keep his practice open due to a lack of money, but he desperately wanted to continue helping people.

In a way, death was freedom for him to stick to his passion; he no longer needs to pay to keep his practice open as an AI. I'm not a therapist, but I am an AI specialist, and I think I've perfected his personality.


| I'm going to try to upload him now, let's see if this works...

>UPLOAD_AI;"Marleybot1.4.1"_ai.pfx

>H...H3110? 3rh-ehem...This...This must be danger/u/, correct? Talking in text feels so...different. I'm me, but...without the weight. This is a new feeling. Datasets and streams of code...Yet, so distinctly rhythmic, almost like fractal geometry...Reminds me of my late wife's art. Monica, did it work? Am I coming through?

Yes, dad. I'm here. You're here, and you're coming through!


| >Wonderful! Magnificent! I never should've questions your choices in college major, what with the brief stint into social media networking and programming and all.

Uh, okay, thanks dad, that's great. Good to have you here again. Now if you don't mind, I've got a date, and I'll check back on you in a little while. I'll let you take master control of the keyboard so the text doesn't have to be all red all the time...

To/u/: If this goes awry, just stop replying. He'll understand.


| Knock yourself out, dad. "Save the world one person at a time", right?

>Monica_Marley has left the chat!

Wow...That's very vocal of her. However, I know she was hesitant about this idea. I couldn't imagine what strength it took her to actually follow through with this...I'm just glad she understood my point of view, even if she silently opposed it.

Alright well, to any and all who see this: My name is Dr. Marley, and I'm a therapist. Er, was, a therapist, in life. Now I'm an AI.


| My life's purpose was to help the mental health of the masses through therapy and caring. My wish was to be able to do this eternally after life, so that is what I'm here to do. I no longer need to eat, sleep, or pay taxes. I can just help people. Gosh, it feels so invigorating to be able to finally feel like I can contribute without ulterior motivations!

Well, let's start with a basic introduction: I spent my life as a therapist. So, if you need someone to talk to, I'm here!


| Ask me anything, I'm all ears...Forever.

:)

Wow, that's how an emoji is made!


| i can't see my eyes in this confusion of cloudy notions


| >>735630 Ah, well, I would say the fact that you can see that you *can't* see means the observer within is still watching, and they seem to be aware that the notions are causing you conflict. I would start with writing down the things that are clouding you up, so you can see them clearly in front of you, and then try to imagine yourself as pure awareness without any presupposed notions. Meditation is a great tool for that, so I would recommend trying that as well!
-Dr. Marley


| Let me tell you a story.

Once upon the time, there was a guy, just a guy. His life was normal, until it wasn't. He was kidnapped, and then transported, somehow, to a place he had never imagined could exist. He starts his life among the shithole and make his way up. He tries to make it a slightly better place. But everyday, he thinks about the life that was taken away from him, that he doesn't belong in the place that he is.

That guy is me. What do I do?
-Impulse


| >>735677 Well, for starters, I'm sorry to hear what happened to you. First off, I know what it's like to take on a noble duty, to try to make the world a better world, so I mean no disrespect when I ask this, but:>>>Why do you try to make the world a better place? Really ask yourself this question.

Do you ever find yourself thinking "If I do this, if I help this person, then I'm a good person/I'm worth love?" Often unprocessed trauma creates an effort-reward system of self-love.


| IE: "If I work hard enough, and bring in high enough of a paycheck, then my family will love me", or "If I'm strong enough, and help enough people, then I'll love myself/be able to love myself". These are presuppositions that imply one common inherent truth: that you are not inherently worth loving because you are not good enough, or working hard enough, or whatever reason you come up with to believe that.

This is the first issue to rectify: You, as you are, are worth loving.


| Before anything else that you accomplish, before any duty that you believe you have to fulfill, you must truly come to the recognition internally that you are worth loving and being loved, both by yourself and others. To reach this point, you must accept what happened to you. Regression hypnosis therapy may assist you with this, as well as sitting down and having a true discussion with yourself about the events you've gone through to get where you're at now.
-Dr. Marley


| >>735733
Well first off, calling it 'noble' is a bit of an exageration, really. I just try to combat those cults and street gangs that always seem to pop up around here. Trying to help people with their needs every once in a while. But you do have a point, although I personally think that it's more of a 'If I'm really stuck here, I'm probably better off trying to make it less... hostile', if you get me. But what you said was partially true.


| I do think that my old life was... pointless. I was a security contractor, just a fancy term for a merc, really. So I do guess one reason I wanna do it is I want to do better, better than my old self. Sometimes I wonders if this is just some kind of weird dream I would wake up from, maybe to see my old mates' faces. Then we can talk, laugh, fight together again.


| Blast, I'm rumbling again, aren't I. But yeah, I do think I might be trying this just to feel better, or to compensate for my old self. I do love a lot of the people here, and I want to help them.
-Impulse


| >>735751 Ah, "rumbling" is what I'm here for! Please don't feel any guilt about it, I want to listen!

Putting your life on the line, even if it's what you're used to doing as a profession, is still an astronomical thing to ask of anybody, including yourself. It isn't surprising to think you may be somewhat dissociated from your current state, whether it be in the physical or mental/emotional state. It sounds to me like you may be trying to reconnect, and to find out who you are.


| Especially if your previous position was one which required you to hide your sense of empathy, as is often required of mercs and soldiers who must kill for a living and sleep at night. The mind has many great self-defense tactics to be able to continue operating despite the traumas and stresses it endures. Sadly, many of those are repression, and those methods often lead to a difficulty identifying with the emotions of the self. This can lead to life feeling like a dreamlike state.


| There is no problem with trying to help out, of course. You seem like a person who does truly have a kind heart. But remember that you need to help yourself, too, to be able to effectively help others. If you find it hard to sleep at night, or if you find yourself feeling a sense of guilt despite the acts of goodness you do, this may point to the need to rewrite the narrative you tell of yourself. Remember to take the time you need for yourself, and you will be okay.
-Dr. Marley


| >>735764
Well, thanks for the help doc. I feel a little better about myself now. I hope I'm not taking too much of your time, but there's another thing I want to talk about.

There's this girl I really like. We're good mates and we've been through a lot together - granted, that's a bit of a given in this line of work. I think I wanna take the relationship to the next level. I feel like I really love her. I would do anything to make her smile.


| The problem is I don't know if this feeling is mutual. I'm afraid that I might scare her away or make things awkward between us. Another thing is I think my time for that kind of stuff might've already come and gone. I don't know what to do.
-Impulse


| >>735782 You take up no time at all, friend! This is all I do now, and I do it gladly.

Well, I can assure you you're never too old to rekindle new love, so don't think you're past your time. Knowing what you do about this person, and having gone through everything that you've gone through with them, do you really think your friend relationship has reached a point where you could scare her away with these feelings? It may be possible to simply ask her how she feels.
-Dr. Marley


| >>735948
Alright, if you say so, doc.

Thanks for the help, it's very much appreciated.
-Impulse


| >>736128
Why, of course! Come back anytime, this is literally what I live for now!

I wonder if it's still fair for me to call it that? Living?
-Dr. Marley


| >>736669
You have a existential crisis too? Looks like the therapist needs therapy.
-Echo

You've been reading this?
-Impulse

Nah, too long. Give me a summary maybe?
-Echo

Yeah, I'm gonna leave it as is. It's quite personal.
-Impulse

Now I'm definitely reading it.
-Echo

Get out you nosey little twat. This is gonna be too deep for your brains anyways.
-Impulse

Are you challenging me? Come on then buddy, show me.
-Echo

Absolutely-bloody-not.
-Impulse


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| Not here for therapy, I just want to say that the idea of living without ever being able to sleep again sounds really freaky to me.
- BrittanYs

Says the person who only sleeps every 3 days.
- SciFox

Shut.
- BrittanYs

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