Discussion Prompt #7

[meganehaven]

Have they ever had a near-death experience? If not, have they ever lost someone they were close to?
How do they feel after the fact? Did it change them, for better or for worse?

comment below your thoughts! <3

Comments

[meganehaven]

imo it would make sense for her to hallucinate from all the trauma and stress shes been through! anyone and everyone on earth is capable of hallucinating / developing psychosis under the "right" amount of stress. i would recommend researching psychosis and how it works to help avoid any ableist tropes.
(source: im schizoaffective and have experienced such for almost 15 years. im not usually open about that, but who cares its dreamwidth and it sounds like u needed the feedback! (: )

i love the plot point of Yuu having to learn about the part of her past she forgot about through her own journals! i can def imagine the extreme stress shed be under during that time, esp considering her household is ableist as well. ty for sharing!! :D

[arimamary]

Thank you for the advice! Definitely need to read more about psychosis and other experiences for her character.

I read about psychology a lot but I recently noticed that what's written by scientists is hard to... sympathise with perhaps? So I think what I want to look for is personal annecdotes.

[meganehaven]

ofc! :3

no yea i get that, imo its good to read both to have a clinical understanding AND see how it personally affects people in different ways. tho sometimes doctors and scientists will write about psychosis / psychotic disorders while holding prejudice themselves, so thats something to be cautious about. but yea i agree that itd be great to read personal annecdotes!! (: