History Literature / DrHarperTherapy

The official website is [[https://drharpertherapy.com here]]. A prequel volume, ''The Disturbing Incidents at Lonesome Woods Boarding School'', was published in 2021. A fifth volume is in the works.

!!''I'm a Therapist, And My Patient Is Going To Be The Next School Shooter'' contains examples of:

[[folder:Volume 1 (Shooter Files)]]

[[folder:Volume 2 (Prison Files)]]

[[folder:Volume 3 (Influencer Files)]]

“I’m a Therapist, And My Patient Is Going To Be The Next School Shooter” is a r/nosleep series written by the user u/Dr_Harper. The first file of the series was published on Reddit in December 2018. A total of eighteen files have been written, with six in each volume. Three volumes has been written, and the series has ended. You can find all of his stories on his subreddit, r/Dr_Harper and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Dr_Harper/comments/a5wu7f/my_other_patients/ this post]].

“I’m a Therapist, And My Patient Is Going To Be The Next School Shooter” is a r/nosleep series written by the user u/Dr_Harper. The first file of the series was published on Reddit in December 2018. A total of eighteen files have been written, with six in each volume. Three volumes has been written, and the series has ended. You can find all of his stories on his subreddit, r/Dr_Harper and this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dr_Harper/comments/a5wu7f/my_other_patients/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

%%* AGodAmI: Elliot [[spoiler:(Dr. Harper)]] in the Choir Boy Story near the end.

* AGodAmI: Elliot [[spoiler:(Dr. Harper)]] in the Choir Boy Story near the end.

* AntiHero: Dr. Harper. Most would describe him as a rude, stubborn control freak. [[spoiler:He gets better near the end of the series, though.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:The Happy Family Cult in the Shooter Files, and]] Dr. Zhang in the Prison Files.

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Dr. Harper has this with Noah in Patient #220]]

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Dr. Harper. Let’s just say his treatments are... unconventional.

* ChekhovsGun: Linus’s fortress in the Influencer Files.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Dr. Harper suffers from this throughout the files.
* ClearTheirName: Towards the end of the Prison Files, [[spoiler:Zach helped Dr. Harper with this by publishing an article about his case.]]
* ClusterFBomb: Dr. Harper is very prone to dropping these.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Dr. Zhang.

* FrameUp: [[spoiler:The Happy Family Cult does this to Dr. Harper.]]

* HeroWithBadPublicity: Dr. Harper was this in the Prison Files.

* ManipulativeBastard: Dr. Zhang, [[spoiler:Kierra, The Happy Family Cult,]] and to some extent, Dr. Harper.
* MoralityPet: Noah is this to some extent with Dr. Harper.

* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Zhang, and to some extent, Dr. Harper.
* PutOnABus: Noah and Kierra in the Prison Files. Justified, as [[spoiler:they both weren’t arrested.]] [[TheBusCameBack They both return for the Influencer Files, though.]]
* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Dr. Harper has this reaction upon seeing [[spoiler:the Glade Farm Boys.]]

* SerialKiller: Chase.
* TheSociopath: [[spoiler:Kierra.]] And to some extent, Dr. Zhang.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Kierra and Noah (mostly Kierra) delivers this to Dr Harper in the Assisted Suicide story.]]

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Both Kierra and Noah do this to Dr. Harper before the ending.]]

* A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience

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!!I’m a Therapist, And My Patient Is Going To Be The Next School Shooter contains examples of:

* AndIMustScream:

** [[spoiler:Kierra gets burned by acid, giving her severe burns everywhere. She’s in constant pain, and she can’t do anything about it other than beg for someone to kill her.]]

* BringMyBrownPants: In the Abusive Couple Story, Kierra claims Lucas feeds her pies that make her soil herself. Later on, Kierra soils herself from fear when Lucas ties her up and carries around a knife. [[spoiler:Subverted, as Kierra was eating sugarless Haribo gummy bears to make herself shit her pants.]]

* ButtMonkey: To some extent, Dr. Harper in the Prison Files. Let’s unpack this shit case.

** It all started at the end of the Shooter Files. He got arrested and got life without parole in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. For something he didn’t even do!

** He then [[spoiler:got infected with HIV by one of his patients, got his medication stolen from him by the copycat, got his ear bitten off, and is now on the run from the police after murdering Dr. Zhang.]]

*** Let’s not forget in the Influencer Files, he [[spoiler: got tricked into eating a woman along with half of the customers in the restaurant he and the Dream Team were eating at. Luckily, the human meat incident was a hoax.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: In the Prison and Influencer Files, Dr. Harper starts getting more softer.

** Also, in the Influencer Files, Noah [[GrewASpine learns to stand up for himself more.]]

* CreepyChild: James in the Prison Files. He was literally first introduced wearing a shirt that said “No See. No Talk. No Police.” on it while covering his ears and closing his eyes.

* DeadpanSnarker: Dr. Harper can be sarcastic at times.

* DisappearedDad: Alex’s dad abandoned his family.

* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Both Kierra and Noah do this to Dr. Harper before the ending.]]

* DaylightHorror: Most, if not all, of the files takes place during the day.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Dr. Harper is heavily implied to have a habit of masturbating.

* AdultFear: The series is filled to the brim with this.

** Dr. Harper’s patient is planning on shooting up his school, any parent and teacher’s worst nightmare. [[spoiler:Not only that, but Alex gets shot and killed in the end by Emma.]]

** Poor Phil. Not only does he live in constant fear of his loved ones getting hurt, [[spoiler:but he also thought his daughter was dead for three years. Damn.]]

** Elliot’s mother was forced to watch as her son slowly got covered in more unexplainable burns each and every day without being able to do a thing about it.

** Imagine this: you have a huge problem that most normal therapists can’t solve. Either they don’t believe you, or they just tell you that they can’t do much about it. You finally find a therapist willing to help you out, only to realize that he’s probably nuttier than most of his patients. Sure, he has good intentions, but most of his methods of fixing your problem are morally questionable and unethical at best, and downright illegal at worst. But since you don’t have much of a choice, you keep on going to those therapy sessions with him, knowing that there’s a 50/50 chance that you or your loved ones won’t make it out alive.

** Officer Donahue [[spoiler:is part of the Happy Family Cult. Let that sink in for a second: a police officer, someone you should be able to trust, is part of a dangerous cult that they should be working to stop.]]

** Dr. Harper gets sent to prison for something he didn’t even do, [[spoiler:got HIV from one of his patients and got his ear bitten off by Chase.]]

** [[spoiler:The pedophile ring is every parent’s worst fucking nightmare.]]

** Imagine this: you take your family to a nice, private, tropical island for a much needed vacation. At first, everything is perfect. There’s so many fun activities to occupy yourselves with, amazing themed restaurants, and lovely beaches. But then you realize that something is... off. Anonymous accounts start posting on everything related to Slapfest, speaking about a massacre. You brush it off, thinking that they’re just a bunch of internet trolls looking for attention. But then, a live-stream starts popping up everywhere, of a woman being tortured by a man (or woman) dressed as a chicken. Then later on, while you and your family is eating burgers at a restaurant, [[spoiler:the live-stream from earlier pops up again. Except, something’s different. The woman isn’t in the same room as them anymore. Instead, the chicken is shown pouring something red and lumpy into the ground beef, heavily implying that it’s the woman from earlier.]] You and your family immediately vomit up the burgers. You are of course traumatized by the incident, but you foolishly think it’s an isolated incident, and that security has it under control. But then rumors of a major plague spread around the island. The news shows people coughing and passing out on the streets. To avoid your family catching it, you keep your family and yourself locked in your hotel room. When more fucked up incidents keep on coming up, you soon force yourself to the realization that something is very, very wrong.

** Let’s not forget in the Influencer Files, [[spoiler:James’s mom passes away a few months after he escaped the pedophile ring.]]

** In the Influencer Files, [[spoiler:Noah gets to experience this. In the Assisted Suicide Story, Dr. Harper almost chooses to go with Zach to the abandoned mental facility over having a family with him. Subverted, thankfully. In the real ending, Dr. Harper chose to date Noah and adopt James over going to the abandoned facility with Zach.]]

* BreatherEpisode: In the Shooter Files, the Choir Boy story has only one part, and [[spoiler:Dr. Cole]] didn’t take as much as a drastic measure to help as Dr. Harper usually does.

* {{Cannibal}}: Chase. [[spoiler:Though not by choice.]]

** In the Vegan Terrorist story, [[spoiler:the terrorist tricked everyone into eating Maggie, his first victim. Including Dr. Harper. Subverted, as the livestream was pre-recorded and the human meat incident was a hoax.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: Chase. [[spoiler:Though not by choice.]]

Volume 1 (Shooter Files):

•A boy who planned on becoming the next School shooter

•A patient with OCD whose loved ones really did suffer every time his missed a ritual

•The choir boy who claimed he was being molested — not by a priest — but by God Himself

•A patient with PTSD who gave me nightmares

•A husband and wife who accused each other of abuse, and only one of them was telling the truth

•Patient #220

Volume 2 (Prison Files):

•A young inmate who fell in love with a pedophile

•A man who intentionally infected strangers with HIV

•A patient with an extremely unusual addiction

•A sociopath who wanted to have a conscience

•A conspiracy theorist who harassed survivors of a terrorist attack

•A boy sold into sex slavery

Volume 3 (Influencer Files)

•A vegan vigilante who treated humans like factory farm animals

•A germaphobe who warned of the next major plague

•Zach

•A rapist who got canceled online - and in real life

•A psychic medium with a disturbing prediction

•The patient who asked me to take them off life support

* Cannibal: Chase. [[spoiler:Though not by choice.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Taken UpToEleven with one of them being [[spoiler:part of the Happy Family Cult.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Kierra tells Dr. Harper this in the Shooter Files, saying that they both like to take control.

* AscendedExtra: Dr. Harper’s friend Zach started out as a childhood friend that was in one of the Shooter Files. In the Prison Files, he is in charge of [[spoiler:finding Noah, and he’s the one who wrote the article clearing Dr. Harper’s name]] In the Influencer Files, he’s on the island with everyone.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Dr. Harper states that he got life without parole in exchange for taking death penalty off the table. In the US, only murder, treason, espionage, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is punishable by death. Other than attempted murder, none of those things were even remotely related to Dr. Harper’s case.

* AscendedFanboy: One of Dr. Harper’s fans, Zeddo, became his editor.

* MurderCom: In the Vegan Terrorist Story, Maggie is tortured and killed on a livestream. [[spoiler:Except she isn’t.]]

* EvenEvilHaveStandards: [[spoiler:In the last file ending, Kierra tells Dr. Harper that even though she is a sociopath, even she understands relationships take effort.]]