Don't Quote Me On That

I'm calling it a phase.

You pick up a few psychology books and suddenly think you know everything there is to know.

Jazz - Sixteen. Biologically! But psychologically, I'm an adult! And I will not allow your insane obsession with ghosts to pollute the mind of this impressionable little child!  Come, you abused, unwanted wretch. I'll drive you to school. 

Imagine being Maddie and your own daughter is trying to fix Danny because she thinks they failed him.

I couldn't imagine the heart ache of a mother hearing their child quoting psychology, diagnosing people, lecturing her own parents, acting like she knows better, and implying you are a bad parent.

How did this not strain their relationship?

Imagine being told your a bad mother just through those actions alone.

Does Jazz hear herself talk?

Your disrespecting your parents! Instead of using therapy as a bridge. Instead of using it to make a deeper connections with her parents and brother. It would have probably been so much more helpful by seeking out real therapists to solve the problem instead of DIYing it. I bet she makes Maddie and Jack feel judged by their own daughter as she pushes them further away.

Maddie your daughter's hurting something fierce and she won't even come out and say it.

If I had said anything like what Jazz had told her parents before she drove Danny to school I probably would have gotten my ass beat.

Lecture your own parents. Talk down to them, call Danny abused, imply your a bad parent. Tries to take over parenting which she has no authority to do so while using psychology to sound superior.

If I had said anything like that Jazz had told her parents I would not be here today, my friends. I would have been sent to the afterlife.

A better place perhaps?

Honestly this sounds like the type of episode where Maddie and Jack should have had an emotionally honest conversation between themselves and their daughter about what the fuck is going on.

Because that's not normal in an emotionally healthy child.

This is Jazz's cry for help.

If DP was written much better Jazz would have effectively drove a wedge between herself and her parents.

If Jazz believed in the healing powers of therapy and used them effectively. Easiest way to approach this instead of using it to attack her parents. She could have communicated her feelings.

"Mom I'm feeling overwhelmed."

"I need to talk to someone."

"Can we look into counseling?"

Jazz needs real emotional support, real therapy, real guidance, and she does none of that.

Honestly if she spends all night in her bedroom without social interaction and reading up on psychology.

I bet she was venting about her traumatic homelife online.

henchperson: uh, boss? You know how a couple weeks ago, me and the girls put up that barrier against invaders, extra thick, just like you asked?

boss: yes…

henchperson: weeeel, the good news is no invaders this month.

boss: and the bad news? spit it out, already

henchperson: weeeeeel, we made it out of wet tissue again, boss. so we’re going to have to peel it off and put up a new one before it gets all nasty, you see…

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