Therapy is like, the best! ^_^

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Do you have a diagnosed mental illness ?.

Depends on what constitutes 'diagnosis'. Been to plenty of 'therapists', 'shrinks', a preacher, 'counselors'... but most of them as once-offs, where most would recommended Ritalin or some-other-similarly-veined drug that started with an A (for ADD). One non-once-off wrote that I spent entirely too much time in imaginary worlds, but given that schizo is not a title that psychologists want to give to children... it may not have been "diagnosed" (I don't have the file on hand, which is a shame, because it's a good solid laugh).

I tend to distrust 'diagnosis' (self or otherwise), which in my experience are often made with limited knowledge and/or in haste. I'm aware of my experience (excepting rare blackouts), tend to articulate it well, have probably not learned everything about it, and believe that most existing 'diagnosis' are entirely too broad in scope...

But am I mentally ill, regardless of diagnosis? Hard to say... something is bizarre, and sometimes more than a little terrifying... but on the whole? I survive, and function in society... usually without incident. It is not so much an illness as a distraction, and it provides as much pleasure as it does terror... I seek therapy only to aid my control over the reshuffling. Estrogen does a lot for me, in that it helps me to the self confidence to reject and destroy the negatives... perhaps I don't need therapy... but it doesn't do everything.

Whatever the cumulation of it all is... it is severe... but only particularly dangerous if I'm placed into a position where occasionally-rather-convincing external visual/auditory hallucinations can have a significant impact if I chose to ignore them, and they happen to actually be real. Worse if it's an external overwrite, or internal is distracting and overlays the external. A 'spiral' while driving, and I would do my damn best to pull the fuck over. Slowly. Hopefully not hit anyone

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Yes, but the POV made that story much more enthralling then the last third person story. See third person works when there is a lot point of view characters, or if you want to be super descriptive with the world. Like asoiaf or harry Potter. For the story you had there a first person POV like the hunger games is best.

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Bear in mind I'm partial to first person because it throws the reader right in the driver seat as opposed to the more distant third person.when you use third person I prefer a Isaac Asimov type style that is very clear and concise and does not use much description, that said George martin has a great style too.

Perhaps, I also put a lot more work into this one, as it's a fresher memory, that ultimately had more impact than a "that's nice" good-news sort of announcement. Still, taking it under advisory

First person can also be intensely confusing. I'm intentionally using this to my advantage in one of my projects (hard to understand DID without seeing it through someone else's eyes). I'm not picking anyone else's style of writing; I'm not cognizant of their idiosyncrasies. There's no overarching plot, just a base framework of "at some point mention the reason I am making this thread", and then it's just writing as it comes to me Unless I read it back to myself, and I find that I can do so much more in the same essential space, like rotating puzzle pieces, or a rubik's cube made out of the dragonballs