cocoflove
12-16-2010, 02:44 AM
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But In Treatment dvd (http://www.collectcheapdvd.com/products/909-In-Treatment-Season-1-DVD-Box-Set.html) that hit me the hardest was the couple, Jake and Amy, in their fifth session. When Amy, with that glazed look in her eye, the one Jake hates, announces that she wants a divorce. And Jake just breaks down, crying into her lap, helplessly, yet she can't even bring herself off her own pride to properly comfort him. I felt so saddened by it, and attested it to "I don't want to be her. I want to treat my partner better than that." But then I realised my sadness wasn't pity on the characters, or worry of how I would treat someone, but the realisation of how I did treat someone. How I once was her. And it was both frightening and upsetting. I've since been really working through it, and have started to lay down my pride a little more.
This is a powerful, powerful program, and I like to think that there's a little healing in it for everyone. I don't know how they did it, but HBO hit the very object of therapy right on target. Maybe it falls together a little too easily, or ties together a little too nicely from time to time, but the underlying truth of it is, it gets close and personal, and offers a little hope.
Perhaps In Treatment dvd set (http://www.collectcheapdvd.com/products/909-In-Treatment-Season-1-DVD-Box-Set.html) is more a personal account than a proper review of a series, but this drama has touched me like no other, and for that I am very grateful.
But In Treatment dvd (http://www.collectcheapdvd.com/products/909-In-Treatment-Season-1-DVD-Box-Set.html) that hit me the hardest was the couple, Jake and Amy, in their fifth session. When Amy, with that glazed look in her eye, the one Jake hates, announces that she wants a divorce. And Jake just breaks down, crying into her lap, helplessly, yet she can't even bring herself off her own pride to properly comfort him. I felt so saddened by it, and attested it to "I don't want to be her. I want to treat my partner better than that." But then I realised my sadness wasn't pity on the characters, or worry of how I would treat someone, but the realisation of how I did treat someone. How I once was her. And it was both frightening and upsetting. I've since been really working through it, and have started to lay down my pride a little more.
This is a powerful, powerful program, and I like to think that there's a little healing in it for everyone. I don't know how they did it, but HBO hit the very object of therapy right on target. Maybe it falls together a little too easily, or ties together a little too nicely from time to time, but the underlying truth of it is, it gets close and personal, and offers a little hope.
Perhaps In Treatment dvd set (http://www.collectcheapdvd.com/products/909-In-Treatment-Season-1-DVD-Box-Set.html) is more a personal account than a proper review of a series, but this drama has touched me like no other, and for that I am very grateful.