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[doctorize]

[Danny frowns a little at that now.]

Unfortunately, that's how mental health treatment works, at least in most cases: we can only "treat" the symptoms rather than cure them. If there was a singular medication that could immediately cure a person's mental state in only one or two doses, there wouldn't be much of a need for therapists, would there? But alas, no such thing truly exists. It's a sad failing of the mental health practice, really.

[peccatore]

No, I... I know that.

[He fidgets for a moment. Of course, what Danny is saying makes perfect sense. He just... really doesn't like it. He doesn't like that it's true, he doesn't like being like this, he doesn't like that there's something just permanently WRONG--

But he takes a deep breath.]

So I just have to keep doing what I've been doing, right?

[doctorize]

Yes, that's right. I know it may not seem like it sometimes, but I promise, you've been coming along quite nicely.

[And just like that, Danny is right back to smiling again.]

Now then, was there anything else you wanted to talk about today?

[peccatore]

["Coming along nicely," huh. Marco isn't sure how those words make him feel, but regardless, he smiles politely.]

I, ah... Nothing's coming to mind. I take it I haven't really... said anything that could be a cause for concern, then?

[doctorize]

If there was something that I thought was a cause for concern, I would have told you. [Actually, he probably wouldn't, but--] As it is, everything that you've said so far sounds like what one might expect when facing the circumstances that you have here.

[peccatore]

Okay. Okay, that's a relief. [Sighing, he runs a hand through his hair - it narrowly avoids a horn he isn't completely used to yet.]

Sometimes I feel the need to make sure.

[doctorize]

It's alright, I understand.

[Though, despite his words, he finds it annoying occasionally. Why can't patients just believe him the first time he says something? But it's a thought he probably should keep to himself here.]