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Charles Muley, A Therapist's journal

Synopsis: This is a story about a hated psychotherapist. named Charles Muley. The character writes his own journal then puts it into a novel if he isn't hired into his second job. You can categorize this as a contemporary genre. It dives into his various clients in his work. Different aspects of mental health, relationships, emotions, crime, and love. Mostly about mental health. He sees the hated geared toward him but doesn't take it personally.
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Genre: Drama
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CHARLES (V.O.)

I have been working full-time as a therapist for 2 months now since graduating with my master’s in counseling. I enjoyed my classes and my internship at a university center. I went to UCC, the Umpqua Community college. Transferred after two years. At UCC, I took 3 psychology classes that are a 200-level set of courses in the second year, after basic writing and math classes. Umpqua Community College had a mass shooting on Oct, first, Thursday, 2015. A twenty-year-old shooter killed nine and wounded nine students. 2 police officers exchanged gunfire until the murderer, Christopher Harper Mercer died. However, with me studying there, I hoped to help those in mental sickness. But now that I've started work. I am feeling an immediate burnout.

I am constantly tired, having insomnia, nightmares, & trapped by a contract. Having the same 8 client hours structured every day, feel like every hour is a reset of my skills and that my work relies too much on the client and not my own efforts, feel like I'm not doing anything tangible, feel like I'm wasting my time. I am doing well by my clients but mentally I'm in a worse state than they are with all of this anxiety and depression about the job.

I'm getting my own counseling. Ironic, a therapist getting therapy.

My supervisor tells me, “This was to be expected. It is just how it is. But that it would get better in time. The problem doesn’t change or is solved, but your sense of resolution does.”

SETTING:
UCC CAMPUS

UCC is a 100 arc campus in a park-style setting. Roads winding in between perfectly leveled and cut grass. overview of the park in autumn with orange leaves dancing with the wind stemming from the roots of each tree. The tree’s trunk and roots look as though a coral reef’s exoskeleton. It is a brown bark wood. The sun shining yellow light at a 47 degrees angle. The time is around 10:34. Day: Sunday of February, 7th.

Speaking to my old professors, when I visit UCC countless times again because of homesickness. Near a gray castle building, adjacent to 5 brown ones off 30 yards away. This is the spot I caught Mr. Chawley today. We discuss my habitual crisis. The feeling stays, stunning into my flesh. I feel as though a burning hell is souring inside my chest and out to the skin. still there. What other careers have people with 3-year masters in counseling pursued? I feel like an idiot having worked so hard and got a degree that I despise now that it's in practice. Don’t work harder than the client is always #1, that's some advice you hear thrown around a lot in this profession.

INT:
CHARLES' APARTMENT

I get my notes ready and review my to-do checklist for each client (for reference I see 5-6 people a day, working 8 am-6 pm). I also put on a watch that I keep at work. At the end of the day, I remove my watch and leave it there, and set a firm mental boundary to not think about work while at home.

Watch off = me time.

EXT:
SIDEWALK TO CHARLES' APARTMENT

I blast loud music on my way home to mentally cleanse all of the people’s things I have taken in on that day. My earlobes ring afterward. Luckily, with this, I can open my front door and feel welcomed. I drop my suitcase, and flop into bed, sighing.

INT:
GYM

Working out helps the stress. As an early bird, I rise at 4:00 am and grind the weights at Breakthrough Strength and Performance. It is part of the suburban building areas in Redmund city. This area comprises different companies.

EXT:
CHARLES DRIVING OUT OF THE GYM. MEANWHILE, CHARLES SAYS (V.O)

The gym is touching the Dalles California highway, where the Smith Rock and the MT Jefferson mountains can be seen on the horizon.

I drive and love my Ford 150 pickup truck. Been using it for 8 years now. Ford Motor Company itself was the first source of motor vehicles affordable to the working class. The F-150 is a vehicle to drive and has luxury versions to rival some of the most expensive sedans. Unlike the heavier duty models, the F-150 can also deliver sedan quality rides while retaining the ability to carry or tow loads few sedans can equal. Pickup trucks evolved from strictly work vehicles to all-around use. Other examples include the Chevrolet/GMC and Ram trucks. I take my ford out in long strides out in the sunset, with 3 hours left in my day. I go to sleep at 11 at midnight.

INT:
CHARLES' OFFICE.

I walk him over to my desk. He explains to me he wishes to cancel the sessions. I urged him not to.

CHARLES (V.O)

I had to switch one of the clients. The names of the clients are confidential, so we’ll just call him Mr. Goodbye. Other names mentioned and associated have been changed because I am writing this as my biographical journal.

CHARLES:

“I am here to help at your utmost time of need,” I say

MR. GOODBYE

He pleads, “I‘ll figure something else out, so please just see this as a friendly end to this companionship you've given me. “

CHARLES:

“Well, I sincerely wish you the best of luck.”

EXT:
CHARLES' THERAPY OFFICE BUILDING

As I exit my work building, broken glass bottles lay around, every day new teenager hoodlums shatter a window, barge inside and steal a lamp, a watch, a pack of gum, a squishy rubber stress toy, whatever it might be. But every fucking day.

INT:
CHARLES' OFFICE. 1ST SESSION

Armandro Reyes is my first-order business. He is a man of high stature, with the stare of “ I'm Violent.” A resemblance to Tom Brady, but darker skin and black hair. He will fling the door open after I continuously remind him we must work on his abrupt manners. He gave me the genius idea of keeping the door open before he arrives.

ARMANDO with a mischievous grin on his face.

“So watch you mean to say, I am a troublemaker, Mofo, man you don't you wat you talk about.”

DIFFERENT DAY. CUT SCENES INTO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS FOR EACH SESSION.

One time, he stands up and knocks over a vase with the stress toy I handed him.

ARMANDO:

“uh, look man, Mara’s got me all sideways, she and her boyfriend tell me shit. I mean she knows she is mine, right, so why the hell is she rolling out with him?! I got money, I got looks. What's she want?”

CHARLES:

“Maybe you should move on.”

ARMANDO:

“I can’t move on that hard.”

CHARLES:

“Just stop thinking about her or just meet new people,” I suggest

ARMANDO:

“I can't do that. Why- she rip me off like that, I can't tell - I don't know. She's my girl. She wouldn’t do that.”

CHARLES:

“But, you just told me she is out with someone else,” I try to keep track

ARMANDO:

“She is, but she denies it.”

CHARLES. His face of worry contrasts mine of boredom.

“Way I see it, one of you should tell the other to break up.”

ARMANDO:

“Hey, am I fucking boring you!” he yells.

CHARLES:

“Not at all, I'm listening,” I say seriously.

2ND SESSION WITH DIFFERENT CLIENT.

After Armandro, Miss Shawnita Gardner is my next client. She sports black hair to her neck, with one side extending longer than the left side. Blue eyeshadow over her eyes.

SHAWNITA:

“I was an artist,“ she begins, “but I wasn’t practicing, so my mother ask, ‘what did we do wrong?’ I say, ‘You haven't done anything wrong.’ I don’t want to become all I thought. Mostly because of the experience of becoming all as a woman. So, I'd decide to practice something else. Then I remembered I heard about pyromania. So I thought. I will stop being artist because everyone has such talent already. I come up with doing telepathy and pyromania. I think and can put fire somewhere else. I can control the fire and place it somewhere around me. First I made these telepathic exercises and then pyromaniac exercises. Then put together, I call pyromany! I think about terror, fire, redness, marxism, and then I can hear the ambulance coming (chuckles), don’t laugh.”

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Ian R. Carrillo Castro 28 October 2020 Short Bibliography If I were to write a paper about my life? What would I write? Well, this is what I would write. I am a leader, I am hardworking, and I am willing to set goals and use a creative strategy to solve it. I am a student because my parents believe it is smart to lead your kid off to a bright future. English class is always fun when doing essays because I have gotten the knack of writing them and narratives. Narratives can also be creative. Ever since I can remember, I’ve always been creative. I played with legos as a kid. Regularly I would buy ones from the merchandise of a movie. Even though they did not look as perfect as the scene on the screen, I would mix them with other pieces to be more accurate. Also, I ditched the instructions and I would figure out how to construct them on my own and see where I messed up. I built my own Batcave, suits, guns, avengers tower, and so on. I used my imagination to fit my interests instead of blatantly regurgitating what was asked of me. The important aspect was that I would create my own set, and not follow the rules. Nowadays, I am still creative. I am constantly having fun doing something creative, the only problem is I run out of creativity. In the meantime this would happen, I would read a book to keep occupied. One of my skills is making 3dmodels, here are many websites to do this on.. Tinkercad for example is an Autodesk website where one can create 3D images or models. Other similar sites include: Cospaces, Onshape, Sketchfab to view 3D, and Blender. In Tinkercad, I created a suit replica of the Batman Begins with it’s closet, all three Iron Man arc reactors from the movies, and more suits. I began writing when an English class in seventh grade struck me with how exhilarating writing is. In my want to pursue writing, I keep practicing at it. I went to creative writing courses and practiced. In my research of writing, I came across the book, Story, by Robert McKee. He explains the principles of story writing in the means of a script portrayed on a film, but is still a narrative. Types of plots: none or anti-plot, arch plot, and minimalist. McKee also says researching an area relating to your book to fight clichés. You know what clichés are, the nerd won't get a girl, or the jock without a brain. My father also bought me a book of flash cards giving ways to fix writer's block. Writing a mystery is, for then the reader will solve it by reading. An adventure is one where the character will see a series of events for fun. At least this is what I thought. Not anymore. An adventure story still has a want and cost relationship. Mystery is tried down to discoveries and setbacks to the detective. Or whoever solved it. Mckee also stresses the questions and mystery must be solved by the end. Talking to others when the time arises about life and events helps bring out other perspectives. Languages I speak are english and spanish. Skills and Interests are skateboarding, boxing and Bo staff tricks, calisthenics, weightlifting, researching the web, reading, making 3dmodels, creative writing, and watching movies. In Boxing, I went through Feb 2019 to Mar 2020 on Mondays and Fridays. Maxwell's' Boxing center. The one at Miramar Rd Site. The coach would have us shadowbox after putting on the tape, then we go for a round on the punching bags. Sometimes we would practice sparring with partners. The coach would give different punches with numbers assigned to them. Each in different combinations to do that day. I have always been athletically inclined. Not that I would join leagues, but that I would exercise. Besides the gym, I started skateboarding. First learn the ollies, slide one foot, and hop with both. then practice while riding. After the ollies, move on to nollies, 180’s, 360’s and from there you have the basics. There are probably 20 types ranging from backspin, heelflip, kickflip, bigspin, along with their combinations of 180 and full circle degrees. I keep falling, but persevere. Recently I bought a Bo staff to learn all sorts of spinning tricks. It's as though a windmill lives in my arms. As an eleven year old, I always dreamed of doing this as efficiently. No matter how fast you go, what matters is that you never stop. The continuous motion and weight from the thicker end of the staff drives the spin along my hands. I played DC comics associated video games. Their characters such as Robin and Nightwing used their martial arts technique to fight, thus I became eager to learn it. I also used to rock climb. I learned there you must follow a path of the guide colors on the walls. Especially the times you must climb while your belly faces the rock toward the ceiling, with only your fingers dangling on therock's edges. Another aspect... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NRMU4epvVo_o3nJg9_MYatONEQZukhoNs-0oXFBZqf4/edit?usp=drivesdk 

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