He feels that they are one and the same and he identifies with her and her trauma very heavily because she suffered a lot of childhood abuse and neglect and abandonment, and so did he. So Theo feels compelled to help her and he wants to get her talking again and he tries his damnedt
Zakiyyah Frazier
@Ziggy_Chats · 5:00
And what I realized is that Theo struggles to have boundaries in his personal life with his wife, and then inherently, he struggles to have boundaries with his patient. And because he wants so badly to identify with Alicia and understand her motives for murdering her husband, he interjects himself in a way that there is no turning back from
Zakiyyah Frazier
@Ziggy_Chats · 4:23
I wanted to further explain what I meant in the last post about having boundaries, and that's something that I'm sure many of us struggle with in our day to day lives, in our work lives and our home lives. But in this story, it really makes you wonder and think about what it means to have empathy for someone, but not be consumed with empathy for them, if that makes sense, to not enmesh yourself with them, because all of us have our own individual feelings
