"It was just the other day, a bight sunny day with a slight breeze that felt comfortable as I walked through the park. I don't walk very much these days, whether it's in the park, up and down the street where I live or even when I go shopping.
"I have been fighting my fear, knowing that to survive I must learn to function again in the public, I must make myself feel comfortable around people again. That is why I, once again, gave the park a try. To my credit I feel I did pretty well while walking and I almost made it half way around the trails before I had to call for help.
"No, no, I wasn't attacked or anything, no mugging or kidnapping attempt, what got to me was something much worse, something so insidious that it reverberated in my head for hours and hours after I got home. At first I ignored it and kept on walking but as I continued around the pathway it was suddenly there all around me, I'd look one way and then another and nothing I could do would erase what I saw.
"Finally I just looked down at the ground and watched my feet step, step, step onto the gravel path. I let the crunching sound become a rhythm for me, crunch, crunch, crunch and I gave myself into the rhythm, my walk became almost a dance. By that time I was moving very quickly actually catching up to some of the people who were walking in front of me. Suddenly I saw a woman's walking shoes stopped in the path in front of me. She was actually bent over tying her shoe and although I slid to a stop without running into her, I felt dizzy and as I grabbed onto a nearby tree I had a flashback. A flashback to when it all began, when suddenly it all started closing in on me."
I looked up at the man jotting down notes in his note pad, waiting for him to finish. I moved around a bit on the couch, tucked a pillow under my head and looked back at him. He nodded to me saying, "Go on, go on, tell me the story of your flashback."
"Well, you know, the other day I was in the park walking with my dick out in the open."
"Wait a moment, you said you were walking with Dick out in the open?"
"No, no I was walking with my dick out in the open. You know my dick," I sad pointing at my crotch. "My cock, my penis."
"Oh, your penis is out in the open."
"Yes my penis, my dick, same thing."
"Why do you suppose it was out in the open like that?" the old man asked me.