Elena, a beautiful, well-groomed woman, 56 years old, unmarried, has two adult sons. In ordinary life, he is always a positive and sparkling person. But in the chair in front of me sits a tired, even exhausted woman, much older than her years. The consultation begins with a stream of uncontrollable tears, and this lasts for some time. Finally, the stream subsides. K: “I’m tired,” she says, “It’s like I’m It’s not me at all, I don’t understand what’s happening to me. T: What’s happening to you? K: I’m sick of everything I do, as if it’s not me who’s doing it, but I can’t give it up. And most of all, I’m sick of the fact that I’m so cheerful, but inside I’m not happy at all. T: What does that part of you look like that is cheerful and having fun? The client thinks. K: Like the crocodile Gena. But he is not sad, like in the cartoon, but constantly smiles. And it’s as if he can’t stop. T: And for whom is he so cheerful? K: For Cheburashka. You know, this is such a very small sad Cheburashka, he doesn’t know how to live on his own, and he constantly follows Gena, as if glued. And Gena amuses him to make it easier for Cheburashka. In the client’s figurative reality, the image of his state is the cheerful Gena the crocodile, who with his fun entertains the little dependent Cheburashka. T: Elena, who in your life is so small, dependent, waiting for you to Will you cheer me up? Elena thinks for a while. K: So it seems there are no such people, my children have already grown up and live separately. She thinks even deeper and after some time a new stream of tears. K: So this is my mother. That's how she behaves. They lived poorly with their father, their mother was so unhappy. And I tried my best to cheer her up, pretended that everything was always fine with me and tried to cheer her up. Elena’s body position changed, the blood rushed to her face, even her voice changed in the next phrase. K: Yes, I continue to cheer her up now! !!! It's me - the crocodile Gena! I'm tired of this. I can't have fun anymore! I don’t want to amuse anyone! In Elena’s subjective reality, she continues to save her emotionally immature mother. The work with Elena was long and multi-stage. They removed my mother’s projections - “Mom, I’m not the crocodile Gena, and I won’t play and have fun anymore.” We returned responsibility to my mother for her emotional state - “Mom, you’re an adult, and these are your feelings and your choice.” We looked for, resourced and accepted the childish part of Elena herself - “But in fact, I am a little girl, I’m 4 years old and I want to be taken care of.” Elena and I learned to provide support to our childish part from the adult part. We returned the energy of control, spent on her mother’s condition for herself and gave herself permission to spend this energy on her own growth and development. Elena is still a cheerful woman. But now she chooses when and how she has fun. And she plays and lives her own life. And, it seems, she is getting married. Psychologist of the State Budgetary Institution JSC "Center "Nadezhda" Ivanova Marina Vitalievna