Dr. Fletcher

(writing notes) A viewer named Rachel A. wrote on helpmypatients.com: "Get her to shut up about her absurd dreams and deal with what's going on in her life."

Helen

So I've been having this dream in which I'm in this zucchini hurricane and I can't get out -

Dr. Fletcher

Helen, I don't want to interrupt you, but we've been speaking a lot about your dream life -

Helen

Yeah.

Dr. Fletcher

And I wonder if maybe for a change of pace you'd like to tell me what's been going on in your social life, what you've been up to during the day, what goes on.

Helen

Well, I went on this date this week with this guy I met. And it was going fine but I was so distracted because I kept thinking about how I'm going to have to go out and visit my parents on Long Island next week. It was just so distracting. I'm just so stressed out by those kinds of things. So it was just really distracting.

But it was a good date anyway. It was fine. We go back to his apartment and I was just feeling so shut off because I couldn't stop thinking about my parents. So I didn't really want to get too involved. But I didn't want to - so I'm giving him a handjob in his apartment.

You know, it's fine, I'm not really that into it but it's fine. And then I'm distracted because I see this portrait of the Pope. It reminded me of this recurring dream that I've been having in which I'm the Pope's bodyguard - we're in the Vatican and I'm trying to protect him - and then this swarm of snakes comes up and suddenly I can't move my arm.

My arm is paralyzed, which was very troubling. So I'm in his apartment and I'm giving him this handjob but I see the Pope and my arm is suddenly paralyzed, just like in the dream. So I couldn't keep going; he was right in - and then I felt bad. And so I had to do something.

I didn't want to explain to him about the snakes. So instead I decided I should just loosen up. And so I did. And so we did, which was better, I think. I'm not Catholic but the Pope is a cultural figurehead. So, yeah, I did, which was the right thing, I think.

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