Its all about the healing. But it might just be sadistically gratifying to watch Burt puking his guts out and crying all night...then sitting there shutting up. That's a nice bonus.
Not to mention therapeutic, for both him and us.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.