Here's your chance to ask any burning questions you have, writing or psychology-related. No need to be embarrassed, because all comments will be by "anonymous" participants, signed off in true "Dear Abby" style...like Curious in California, Frustrated in Fresno, Sleepless in Seattle, etc. (All west coast examples, but you get the idea.)
Here's what they will look like:
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**Special thanks goes to Lisa Godfrees for her creativity
in suggesting the "Dear Jeannie" column.**
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Anonymous · 616 weeks ago
Curious about female serial killers
lisagodfrees 17p · 616 weeks ago
Anonymous · 616 weeks ago
Can we leave our name if we want to? I guess we can post more than one question this way too...
Anyway, here's my question: I've created a world based on China's one-child policy where the first son is kept and all girl children are given to an orphanage at birth. I'm wondering how being raised in this sort of environment would affect the classic character archetypes? Let's say my MC is a "care giver"-- what kind of baggage would she bring with her?
Helpless in Houston
Anonymous · 616 weeks ago
I'd love to hear your take on personality types/archetypes on some biblical characters. What can you tell me about the personalities of Ruth and Naomi?
Biblical Bookworm in Bethesda
Anonymous · 615 weeks ago
In a collaborative story I'm writing, one of the characters (a supernatural being used to higher-than-human senses and endurance) was trapped in a pocket dimension after a scheme of his backfired, where he endured sensory and sleep deprivation torture for a period of around 5 weeks before he was rescued. During this time he began to hallucinate, primarily involving hallucinations of a malicious version of himself which taunted him and slowly broke down his fundamental beliefs, sense of self and perceptions, until it ambiguously told him to "give up" - which he agreed to before the other version of himself disappeared.
In the past, he had previously died under similar circumstances, where he was left to slowly die alone in an isolated region in the middle of nowhere from battle induced exhaustion. Due to his enhanced endurance, it took a long for him to finally pass on, however he was too weakened to travel far enough to reach civilization. He was later reincarnated, but has partially regained his memories of his former life. Due to the similar feelings of isolation, helplessness, distortion of senses and reality, as well as the feeling of dying in both situations, do you think that it would be realistic for him to develop Depersonalization Disorder as a result of the second event?
Lively in London.
Anonymous · 615 weeks ago
Jun · 615 weeks ago