My blorbo's therapist

[allsortsoflicorice]

 Can't fictional characters just have personality traits any more? Does everything have to be a diagnosis?

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[purglepurglepurgle]

I'm so sick of characters talking in therapyspeak, I think society needs to ban authors from going. :p

[allsortsoflicorice]

Yes, authors shouldn't be allowed to have therapy AND writing. That's unfair. It has to be one or the other.

[purglepurglepurgle]

:) Tho tbh I sometimes wonder about the folk wisdom that writing is therapy. I find it helps for calming anger, but I'm not sure about other emotions, since it can make you focus on things that you might be better off distracting yourself from. And put you in a more introspective space more generally. Daresay different people are different with it. But it would be quite funny if it turned out to be bad for people. :p

(Tangent, but: this reminded me of a time someone was complaining about their mental health woes in a fandom space. I made the mistake of thinking they actually wanted to improve the issue; in hindsight, it was supposed to be a conversation where we'd bond over how they were more sensitive than other people and how the sadness was the price for their gifts and the world was fucked up, etc etc etc. My suggestions to go outside and eat vegetables were received with a lack of enthusiasm that confused me at the time. :{

Edit: Realised I left off why my mind went to this! I was thinking that, if they'd gone "I'm feeling angsty and want to wallow", or something like that, I'd have got what they were going for. But because they used the language of mental health, I misinterpreted them as someone who actually had mental health problems. Rookie internet error! So I gave some suggestions that were not very glamorous, when they were going for depression-as-an-aesthetic, and I killed their buzz. :p)