Even with a healing factor, you might carry a disease from a person to another. Please, use protection.
[ Charles snorts softly. ] Fine, you caught me. I might have a little bit of a sarcastic sense of humour. But I'm relieved to hear you don't find it hard to turn down people if you're not feeling it.
You obviously enjoy helping others. That doesn't mean necessarily that you're living for someone else. Helping is a career choice. Teachers especially need quite a bit of that desire to be successful in their work.
I need protection like anyone else, too. I might come off as a man with the whole package tightly together, but I do have my moments of weakness. Where do you work currently? I'm about to change jobs. I'm taking over the Maria-Francis Foundation again, and I'm trying to launch a few programs within it. Perhaps you'd like to help me.
But first, I would like to recommend you that I help you find a psychologist. Not for therapy, if you don't want that, but so that they can prescribe you some medication. There is a name for this condition that you have and while it's not something you can be cured from, it's one that you can learn to live with. It is very hereditary like most conditions of that sort are. Medication is important, though, it'll keep you grounded.
[ Charles pauses before he finishes, taking a moment tilt his head back and look at the ceiling, then at Brendan's profile, watching him blink back tears. ]
I care about you. Which is why it hurts me to hear you talk about suicide and hurting yourself. You are a wonderful young man and I hope to learn to know you a lot better in the future.
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[ Charles snorts softly. ] Fine, you caught me. I might have a little bit of a sarcastic sense of humour. But I'm relieved to hear you don't find it hard to turn down people if you're not feeling it.
You obviously enjoy helping others. That doesn't mean necessarily that you're living for someone else. Helping is a career choice. Teachers especially need quite a bit of that desire to be successful in their work.
I need protection like anyone else, too. I might come off as a man with the whole package tightly together, but I do have my moments of weakness. Where do you work currently? I'm about to change jobs. I'm taking over the Maria-Francis Foundation again, and I'm trying to launch a few programs within it. Perhaps you'd like to help me.
But first, I would like to recommend you that I help you find a psychologist. Not for therapy, if you don't want that, but so that they can prescribe you some medication. There is a name for this condition that you have and while it's not something you can be cured from, it's one that you can learn to live with. It is very hereditary like most conditions of that sort are. Medication is important, though, it'll keep you grounded.
[ Charles pauses before he finishes, taking a moment tilt his head back and look at the ceiling, then at Brendan's profile, watching him blink back tears. ]
I care about you. Which is why it hurts me to hear you talk about suicide and hurting yourself. You are a wonderful young man and I hope to learn to know you a lot better in the future.