WORK MEETING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

The problems are multi-factorial: mislabeled data, unstandardized input streams, the constant search for certainty in categories: aggressive behavior, generalized anxiety disorder, risk of harm to self

and property, each with their own modifiers that seem only to multiply along a spectrum from mild to moderate to moderately severe to a shape more

unknown than what a name suggests on top of the urgency for future funding and the need to be productive, to prove that something but talking

about data points is being done since representations are what the kids want to be: they want to seem like the kind of people who smoke cigarettes

without smoking cigarettes because mothers think they’re happier this way while men are addicted to transcendence and the notion that their neuroses are patterns of self-organization rather than problems

to love there’s a crisis of loneliness don’t you see they want something to talk about with a woman who can’t become their lover

in an office filled with dead plants and hardcover books telling them to love themselves

more since depression is their father sending them video clips of guitar heroes from his facebook feed according to the eighth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Standard Deviations from the Norm it’s true

he does care but the words don’t come out naturally since he grew up believing music would overcome the limitations of his immigrant tongue

even if what is sung is transmitted across an underwater tangle of cable wires that run thicker and farther than any network of tree roots he’d ever seen as an island boy “everything is connected” is the last word before insurance is billed

meaning we are all at severe risk of more than moderate harm to self from self and others regardless of the prognosis which is either death or forgiveness so forgive yourself for thinking

it could be otherwise but not without forgetting the problem of the self first meaning your personality and don’t forget to realize the fundamental nature of things which may take a lifetime to discover if karma has decided you are one of the unlucky ones who can’t see what was always here