Text to Ben (Obi-Wan) - sent at 3 am last night (sent without context)

[darkforcerising]

can you talk to cats?

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[darkforcerising]

>> i ask this a lot but do you want to talk more about it

[neverjedi]

I'm not opposed to talking about it, especially not with you. It would probably even help.

I just don't know how. It's... really hard to process, because it's both my memory and so alien to everything I am and know and even this world. The guy I killed for killing Qui-Gon was red and black with horns.

[darkforcerising]

Like the devil?
Why did he kill Qui-Gon?

[neverjedi]

I have no idea.

[darkforcerising]

Do you know what EMDR is?

[neverjedi]

Just that it's some kind of PTSD treatment.

[darkforcerising]

I mean, yes. But it’s a treatment for PTSD cuz of what PTSD does to you memory. EMDR is a memory processing therapy. To jump to the relent part, by making you Brian multitask, it processes memories better.

So all of that to say, want to talk about it next time we’re ice skating?

[neverjedi]

Want? No.

But if you think it's a good idea, I will.

[darkforcerising]

It's not any more uncomfortable than other talk therapies.

[neverjedi]

That is a terrible endorsement.

[darkforcerising]

Lots of people hate talk therapy because it makes them uncomfortable. This isn't worse than normal therapy.

[neverjedi]

I've done talk therapy, Anakin; I know.

[darkforcerising]

Then it'll go fine.