Therapy Starts With Artax

Therapist: So, where do you think your emotional problems really started? Me:

A therapist asks where the speaker’s emotional problems began, and the speaker remembers Atreyu desperately trying to save his horse Artax from the Swamps of Sadness before breaking down in tears. The joke uses this famously traumatic scene from The NeverEnding Story as an exaggerated explanation for emotional damage, making it a reaction to childhood trauma or overwhelming sadness. EN: A therapist asks where the speaker’s emotional problems began, and the speaker remembers Atreyu desperately trying to save his horse Artax from the Swamps of Sadness before breaking down in tears. The joke uses this famously traumatic scene from The NeverEnding Story as an exaggerated explanation for emotional damage, making it a reaction to childhood trauma or overwhelming sadness.

• @afrosidemoon / 50660 2022-08-22