In Treatment 3x23

After the panic attack that set off their last session, Jesse has calmed down. No longer the hyperactive foulmouthed kid, but depressed, resentful and self-pitying. Jesse is deaf and blind to the Paul’s counsel. So it’s small wonder that he starts the session with questions about the whole point of therapy. Mixing metaphors, Paul explains that many people live in a fog, and he helps to unlock their inner selves. He has been trying to make Jesse see that he is unconsciously obstructing developing meaningful relationships with his adoptive parents, his birth parents, his friends and lovers, because he drives them away with his behavior. Yet, all Jesse can wonder is why nobody wants him, why everyone rejects him. He’s oblivious to the fact the he himself rejects them, pushes them away, drives them to anger, and only remembers their anger, the feeling of abandonment, or worse the kicks and punches. His depression is severe enough that it worries Paul hearing that Jesse would like to ride up a glass elevator on his own to the top of the atrium at the Time Square Marriott and disappear. Paul urges him, not as his therapist, but as someone who cares about him, to go home and be with the people who love him, his adoptive parents Marisa and Roberto. Instead, Jesse says he was invited for an interview at the Rhode Island School of Design. Again he is setting himself up for disappointment and rejection, for the school offers no financial aid, and there is no way he or his adoptive parents can afford tuition. Then Jesse asks Paul if he would like to join him for some ice cream, and Paul suggests they call Roberto and Marisa to pick him up. Jesse just asks if he can stay a little longer, to which Paul agrees.