It's a plot kink - exactly. When you start "taking issues seriously and doing research", you still can't forget how YOUR characters are going to react to this situation. Not how they should react or how mental health professionals think they should react, but how they - as characters in your head - will react in ways internally consistent to your already-created characterisation of them. Otherwise it might as well be an essay on a survivor website where "the names have been changed" to protect the innocent, because it's not actually exploring *that* issue in terms of *these* characters, is it?
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Date: 2007-06-08 02:47 pm (UTC)