[There it comes. Dirk hears the breath and feels the touch. He measures his own breath, stays calm. Tries to give that calm back to Dave as best as he can.]
I can't diagnose it or anything. I'm not a psychiatric professional, and I have a ten minute dissertation on mental health labelling and 21st century pathologizing that I'm not going to dump on you right now, unless you want to hear it, in which case we can talk about the history of the DSM and how homosexuality was considered a mental disorder by it up until the 1970s.
[pause. so much for calm.]
Sorry. Does... it help to think about it like that? To put a name to the things you sometimes experience and feel.
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I can't diagnose it or anything. I'm not a psychiatric professional, and I have a ten minute dissertation on mental health labelling and 21st century pathologizing that I'm not going to dump on you right now, unless you want to hear it, in which case we can talk about the history of the DSM and how homosexuality was considered a mental disorder by it up until the 1970s.
[pause. so much for calm.]
Sorry. Does... it help to think about it like that? To put a name to the things you sometimes experience and feel.