Brinchen said:
I wouldn't say he never saw anything like that. She talked to him in Love Run Cold, even if she didn't say exactly what was up yet. She told him she has a problem with mothers and that she didn't want to talk to the mother of the Suicide Girl (in Oedipus Hex). And back then, they weren't even together yet. I think by now, especially as she expected him to talk to her when he had to deal with sitting in a wheelchair last season, she would be more open.
I don't know - that talk in LRC was specifically her not letting him see her fall apart. And in Oedipus Hex she told him what the problem was (she couldn't do mothers) without actually telling him a thing (ie,
why she can't do mothers -- in all fairness, Danny didn't ask, but I think that's at least partly because she was deflecting him at the same time). She's really good at that, deflecting people when they start pushing; it somewhat seems like she's done it again with Danny from the spoilers. It's possible that'll loosen up this time, because yeah, if she expected him to talk last season she owes it to him to talk this time, too -- I just hope it doesn't loosen up with
just him, you know? I prefer it so much more when it happens with Mac (Stealing Home, Personal Foul) because those scenes are really deep to me and I have zero clue how a similar scene with Danny instead of Mac would play out. It would be nice to see her talk to one of the others though, too, especially now that the one other person she's shared those deeper-scenes with isn't there anymore.
I agree that the storyline is perfect to see her do something else and talk about it this time instead of keeping it all to herself.
Yeah, that's one big thing I'm looking forward to -- keeping stuff to herself is one of my favourite character flaws of hers, so I don't want to see her lose it
completely (I'm not even kidding when I say I literally can't imagine Lindsay without it :lol
, but after six years it'd be nice to see her grow out of it a little. At the very least, it'd be really funny to note that it takes
six years for her to get comfortable enough with people to let them in :lol: I'm hoping we see it!
I agree with you, LME! It isn't her choice to see the therapist; she has to do it. So she didn't make the decision to go to a therapist and open up willingly. I also think even if she has to see the therapist for months, she will just keep the stuff to herself. Like you said, talking about such things requires trust and I doubt she would trust the therapist, especially (which is what I assume) because she surely didn't choose the therapist and didn't willingly agree to see them either. I wonder if she saw a therapist back then with her friends. Who knows, maybe she also didn't make good experiences with therapists before. But we can just speculate about that. I'm really curious to see how they will do this therapist scene. I don't know, did we have such a scene on the show yet?v
We've seen it on the other CSIs, but to the best of my knowledge, they haven't done anything like it on NY yet. It sucks that we don't know about whether she had therapy back when she was a kid, but I think that passing a psych eval is required to become a police officer in general. So I've always assumed that if Lindsay managed to pass it (given how damaged she clearly still was in S3), it was because she learned a few tricks on how to get around therapists, after the massacre. It'd be interesting to see if that's how she views therapists - as an obstacle to get around in order to convince everyone she's just fine - but I definitely believe it would mean she doesn't trust them that much.
LME said:
Another possiblity it that is it department therapist, yes there is client doctor confidential but but it is still the department therapist - I don't think she would open up to them.
Hadn't thought about if she saw one when i friends were killed, interesting thought - I think that she may well have done what she in these session if she did go. I think it is her coping mechanism.
That's another good point - therapists can't spill about what their clients confide in them, but in the conditions Lindsay has most likely visited them under, they'd always be reporting back to
someone about her. (It's unlikely she's ever chosen to go to one willingly, so if she did as a kid, it would've been her parents who made her - thus her parents who would be getting updates from the therapists; and with the department psychs, they'd of course be reporting back to someone who decides whether she keeps her job). If she's intent on convincing people she's fine and doesn't need therapy, then yeah, she couldn't exactly be open about what might be bothering her. So deflecting them - and then everyone else - might've become her coping mechanism a long time ago. I
really want to see that coping mechanism break at least a little this time, though :lol:
