what will save us?

On the one hand, Ilya very clearly experiencing PTSD is very Important To Me For Personal Reasons. On the other hand, I’d kinda prefer it continues going unnamed by the fandom at large because the way some people treat PTSD as a fun plot device that can somehow be cured by romance or just offers this voluptuous angst factor like “oh geez, Ilya sure is afraid of abuse and abandonment, wouldn’t it be good if he suffered more for the hurt/comfort of it all” ….idk it makes me feel like some of yall don’t take PTSD seriously. I’m not saying this as like, a moral or ethical thing about fictional depictions of PTSD, I don’t care about that. I just think there are people who don’t actually make any effort to understand it before working it into a story as a means to an end.