Out With Dad (2010) s04e08 Episode Script
Counselling Vanessa - Session One
- Have you ever wanted to kiss a girl? - No.
Well No! Well, maybe we should, just to, you know see.
You can't just kiss me one day and then shrug me off the next, - it's just too much.
- Rose, you have to understand - You even called me a qu - I'm scared, don't you get it? My parents will disown me.
- - Well then what are you? I don't know.
I just want to be happy.
And clearly I can't be, living here with you.
Counselor's Office.
This is Madeline.
Hello, my name is Steven.
Our family doctor referred me to you.
My daughter Well, it's about my daughter.
I'm concerned Hi, Steven, tell me about your daughter.
What are your concerns? Well, last month, she ran away from home.
She is back now.
But uh she is not the same.
I guess she hasn't been for a while now.
OK, in what way? She has been removed, quiet, distant.
She won't talk about what happened to her Did something specific happened to her? Do you know? Thank you for agreeing to see me, Vanessa.
No.
She hasn't said a word, but I suspect, yes.
Your father tells me it is your first time to ever see a counselor, is that true? This can all seem very intimidating.
Sometimes.
Doesn't it? I want you to know it doesn't have to be.
This is your time.
We can spend it however you want.
Whenever you feel comfortable.
You are always in control here, you should know that.
As well, anything you talk about will stay between us.
Unless you tell me otherwise.
It's really important you know that, OK? I know this was your parents' idea, right? It's my dad's.
So what made you agree to go through with it then? I just.
thought it sounded like a good idea, I guess.
Hmm, why? I don't know.
I just I don't want to talk about it.
But "it" is all that I think about.
By "it", do you mean what happened when you were gone? OK, what makes you think about it? I think about it always.
When I get up, when I go to sleep.
When I eat breakfast, when I shower.
At school? Yeah, but I don't - really go to school anymore.
- Oh really, why? That's just too much.
Do you feel better now you are not going to school anymore? I guess so Not about "it", but uh I don't have to deal with that stress anymore.
Has school always been stressful? No.
Like, normal stress, yeah.
But Like homework, studying? Yeah, but this What's different now? The people.
There were too many of them I felt like I couldn't get my heart to slow down.
Like I was scared of everyone.
I just wanted to shrink into nothing.
That sounds really scary.
Do you know what you were afraid of? I was just afraid.
Not of, like, anything at all.
I was just afraid.
After a week, I couldn't take it.
I convinced my dad to let me stay home for a day and I haven't been back since.
Yeah.
It all sounds pretty tough.
I can understand why you don't want go back to school.
So what do you do of your time now then? Nothing.
Just sit around.
Alone.
Do you like being alone? Sort of.
It's just that everyone is so obsessed with how I am doing.
I can only imagine, just how tearing that must be.
Yeah, I just I just want everyone to leave me alone and just let me deal with it.
Are you dealing with it, Vanessa? Well, I'm here, right? Text by Michel Cantigneaux
Well No! Well, maybe we should, just to, you know see.
You can't just kiss me one day and then shrug me off the next, - it's just too much.
- Rose, you have to understand - You even called me a qu - I'm scared, don't you get it? My parents will disown me.
- - Well then what are you? I don't know.
I just want to be happy.
And clearly I can't be, living here with you.
Counselor's Office.
This is Madeline.
Hello, my name is Steven.
Our family doctor referred me to you.
My daughter Well, it's about my daughter.
I'm concerned Hi, Steven, tell me about your daughter.
What are your concerns? Well, last month, she ran away from home.
She is back now.
But uh she is not the same.
I guess she hasn't been for a while now.
OK, in what way? She has been removed, quiet, distant.
She won't talk about what happened to her Did something specific happened to her? Do you know? Thank you for agreeing to see me, Vanessa.
No.
She hasn't said a word, but I suspect, yes.
Your father tells me it is your first time to ever see a counselor, is that true? This can all seem very intimidating.
Sometimes.
Doesn't it? I want you to know it doesn't have to be.
This is your time.
We can spend it however you want.
Whenever you feel comfortable.
You are always in control here, you should know that.
As well, anything you talk about will stay between us.
Unless you tell me otherwise.
It's really important you know that, OK? I know this was your parents' idea, right? It's my dad's.
So what made you agree to go through with it then? I just.
thought it sounded like a good idea, I guess.
Hmm, why? I don't know.
I just I don't want to talk about it.
But "it" is all that I think about.
By "it", do you mean what happened when you were gone? OK, what makes you think about it? I think about it always.
When I get up, when I go to sleep.
When I eat breakfast, when I shower.
At school? Yeah, but I don't - really go to school anymore.
- Oh really, why? That's just too much.
Do you feel better now you are not going to school anymore? I guess so Not about "it", but uh I don't have to deal with that stress anymore.
Has school always been stressful? No.
Like, normal stress, yeah.
But Like homework, studying? Yeah, but this What's different now? The people.
There were too many of them I felt like I couldn't get my heart to slow down.
Like I was scared of everyone.
I just wanted to shrink into nothing.
That sounds really scary.
Do you know what you were afraid of? I was just afraid.
Not of, like, anything at all.
I was just afraid.
After a week, I couldn't take it.
I convinced my dad to let me stay home for a day and I haven't been back since.
Yeah.
It all sounds pretty tough.
I can understand why you don't want go back to school.
So what do you do of your time now then? Nothing.
Just sit around.
Alone.
Do you like being alone? Sort of.
It's just that everyone is so obsessed with how I am doing.
I can only imagine, just how tearing that must be.
Yeah, I just I just want everyone to leave me alone and just let me deal with it.
Are you dealing with it, Vanessa? Well, I'm here, right? Text by Michel Cantigneaux