The Importance of Emotional Duress

Brad begins self-harming. This is the way he describes it with a razor blade. I'm assuming he's just cutting himself dealing with the pain of what he's going through and anxiety. Ugh, so awful. He wakes up one morning and he looks down and he sees a symbol carved into his arm. Brad says multiple times that at no point was he ever actually under hypnosis. Obviously, he's under a ton of emotional duress right now.