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Writing about mental illness? Ask ScriptShrink!

just-an-observer-ignore-me asked:

My character has PTSD, but doesn't have access to a therapist. All they have is a reluctant adult, so what kind of therapy could they do?

They could listen to and be supportive of your character, but you can’t call what they’re doing “therapy”. Therapy actually requires a lot of training and a license to perform. When dealing with severe mental illnesses like PTSD, it is hard to make progress, and very, very easy to make things worse. This is akin to asking how someone without access to a dentist could treat cavities.

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just-an-observer-ignore-me asked:

What would make someone talk in the third person at a young age? I thought it could be, because my character's mother never acknowledges her anymore and is kind of a empty shell, so my character talks in the third person as a form of acknowledgment. Would that be a perfectly okay reason?

Talking in third person in the way you’re describing is more of a personality quirk than a sign of psychopathology. That’s what the Shrink believes, anyways! >_>

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