To my Creative Writing class.

[puella_nerdii]

Three questions.

a) Why are you all writing about mental illness?

b) Why are the vast majority of you getting it so so WRONG?

c) Have you people considered researching these topics before you write about them? Pretty pretty please? I mean, these resources exist. Trust me. Just go to the library. Hell, go to Google

Comments

[mithrigil]

And understandably. ::hugs::

[puella_nerdii]

*hugs back*

I might be a bit of a hypocrite here because I write crazy people rather a lot, but I do my research before I write them, and I do a lot of it, even for disorders that I'm well acquainted with.

[sister_coyote]

I heartily applaud this suggestion.

[puella_nerdii]

The idea's been in the back of my head for a while, because I've seen a few really good and a few really abysmal examples of mental illness in published fiction and various other forms of media lately, and the topic of mental health and its depiction in popular culture has interested me ever since I took a class on it, so yeah. I think I might end up doing it. If nothing else, maybe I can enlighten a few people.

[lassarina]

Word.

[vespawoman]

I'm taking an Abnormal Physch class currently, and I'm rather curious as to how they're writing people with disorders :x. And, as writers, it's pretty sad they didn't do their research. Most writers I know are rather picky about details like this :x