Tony Soprano glorified "old days" of the Mafia. Tony leaves out the violence associated with his criminal career. Tony tells Dr. Melfi a story about ducks landing in his pool. He describes his mother Livia, a cold, mean-spirited woman with whom he has an openly hostile relationship. By the end of the first session Tony has admitted that he feels depressed, but storms out when Dr. Melfi presses him further about the relationship between his symptoms and the ducks. When the family visits Green Grove, a Nursing Home where Tony is trying to place his mother, Livia's derisive outburst prompts a second
The Sopranos (The Sopranos episode) out when she presses him further about the ducks. A second panic attack triggered by Livia sends Tony back to Melfi, who prescribes Prozac. Tony claims the medication has improved his mood, but Melfi instead credits their talk therapy together. Tony describes a dream where a bird steals his penis. Melfi extrapolates from this to reveal that Tony projected his love for his family onto the family of ducks living in his pool, and that their flight from the pool sparked his panic attack through the overwhelming fear of somehow losing his own family. To his consternation, this brings Tony