a kissaroo from me to you!

Oh wow this sure is a hard prompt @iloveprocessedcheese. My goody-two-shoes OCs would never make bad life choices. /s

To be honest, I think it would be Anna. She's very insecure and not-so secretly full of resentment, but despite all that she maintains an image of herself as a saintly Good Person.™ If she could "set a boundary/heal her inner child/practice self-care" her way out of absolute mayhem, she probably would.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

Right now I'm indulging in coffee and a bagel.

Did you do this?