The Serenity Prayer

The psychologist who is Charlotte's husband and Francesca's father. He says this serenity prayer, which is the grant me this, or any subject change, except the things that cannot be changed. So something has clearly freaked him out to get to that point. Is this guy a recovering alcoholic or something like that? And we see those metal things closing in front of Eric's eyes too. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't look good.