“So if I do this it’ll work?”

Patients ask me this all the time, and as a young professional therapist, I’ve done a lot of research into making people feel better.

“I assure you, if you just do these things, you will feel better.”

Sometimes they don’t. But my superpower is giving them the opportunity to and I’m pretty darn good at it. Many of my patients do, except the few.

“Hey, I tried everything you said and I don’t feel any better.”

That’s the part where I don’t know what to do. I research my heart out in hopes I can save them from themselves, and yet, my superpower doesn’t save lives. Sometimes, it kills them, and I don’t know how to fix that.

I’ve even tried learning magic, or witch doctor techniques, holistic methods—anything to give them a chance, and one time I was very close.

We ended up needing an exorcism—I quickly shut the door on any of that practice, that one really did not help. It actually ended up killing the whole family, and I don’t know how to fix that.

But if I keep trying, I’m sure I’ll find a way. My superpower is making people feel better, and I’m determined to do that in any way, shape, or form. Anything.