Self-appointed captain of the Laudmoore ship

There's this perception, I've noticed, that if you're going to have a cultural conception of something like "mental health" in your fictional setting it has to be like Ideal, it needs to be the ideal version of mental health awareness/conception/care or it needs to not exist at all even a little. Does that make sense.

Similarly there's also this idea that either a character knows what therapy is, has had some, and has had an overwhelmingly positive experience and result from it, or they have literally no concept of therapy at all, like Harry Du Bois not knowing that he's a cop style. Total blank. Very odd.

The options are not "this story takes place in the Instagram infographic universe" or "you get nothing. Everyone has a caveman's understanding of what depression is." is all I'm saying. Make a setting with a concept of mental health that sucks. Send the character to therapy that doesn't work. Officially diagnose them with something that sucks and is absolutely going to be taken out of the in-universe dsm in a couple of editions. Try something difference.

5 great things about having a wound 1) the wound is a memory or how you earned it, if something bad happened you can use this to steel your resolve, if something good happened this serves as a lovely reminder 2) someone might care for your wound, yay! 3) if nobody else cares for your wound, you can have a tender moment with yourself to clean and dress it 4) you can often press on your wound in some manner that will make it hurt just a little bit, this is good! 5) having wounds makes you sexier, obviously

You've heard about the Madonna/Whore complex, now I propose Mary/Medea: a fictional mother must be an absolute perfect selfless saint whose identity revolves solely around her children, or else be a selfish abusive demon with no redeeming qualities whatsoever

Doing some research into ‘praise kink’