[Event Post] Super Therapy Time

[theheadmonarch]

::So, let's say you've been traumatized by the events of 2 weeks ago involving giant killer robots, or you just feel anxious or whichever. Well, you can either come to be as a Guidance Counselor at Duel Academia, or find my private small practice I'm running in the city for non-students (i.e. Anyone out of High School). Both of which are professional.

As to how I'm doing both ventures, well a wizard did it. And that wizard happens to be me, Noriko. Time Loops for fun and profit.::

Comments

[theheadmonarch]

That's not a bad thing. Don't be like me and waste the springtime of your youth getting your entire mind sucked out by a star squid, Ms. Singer.

[shiningsylvia]

...Is that literally, figuratively or sexually? I can never tell around here.

[theheadmonarch]

Literal. Not fun. I'll spare you the details other than, let's for simplicity's sake, say I'm... oh, say, a practicing witch. Saying anything else is too big a scale and I'm not going to turn your therapy into a farce.

[shiningsylvia]

I think I get it. Since they're pirates, that means there's probably like giant squids also.

[theheadmonarch]

Probably also sharks and alligators.

[shiningsylvia]

Yeah, it's dangerous. I can't duel a shark.

Except that one kid who's name is Shark, but that's different.

[theheadmonarch]

... That is different, but do you have any feelings on the incident you'd like to express? Things like that are so stressful.

[shiningsylvia]

Yeah, I...

I don't think I actually feel anything. I've just felt kinda out of it. Like I was scared, for sure. When I saw people die and...

The whole thing just felt like I was on autopilot. It still does.

[theheadmonarch]

... Could be Depersonalization. Which is fairly expected for a traumatic incident like this.

[shiningsylvia]

Is that good?

[theheadmonarch]

It's expected as a mental self defense mechanism but the fact you had to do it is bad, and if your brain connects the incident to your emotions proper, you might have a mental breakdown.

[shiningsylvia]

Oh, jeez. That sucks.

How do I not do that?

[theheadmonarch]

Might be more accurately "Shell Shock" PTSD, thinking on it but the two and anxiety have a lot of common similarities and chain effects. Exposing yourself to the same conditions is probably a bad idea but ultimately I'm your counselor and if you don't listen to me, well, that's how it goes.

[shiningsylvia]

I guess so? Isn't anxiety the weird breathing thingy?

[theheadmonarch]

That's more likely part of a panic / anxiety attack, but constant stress, worry, pit-in-the-stomach feelings all happen.

[shiningsylvia]

So...

Do I just wait it out and see if my I start crying a lot?

[theheadmonarch]

Could be seconds, could be days, could be years, could be never. This isn't likely developmental PTSD, where it's ground into the core of your being, most likely, but PTSD has the weirdest triggers, unfortunately.

[shiningsylvia]

Well, I've been dueling fine. Or, about the same. After everything happened with Jason and Garlandolf, I felt a lot better about stuff. Wouldn't like... getting back on the dueling bike fix that so I don't explode at all?

[theheadmonarch]

Not saying don't Duel. I'm saying be very careful about dueling Space Wizard Pirate Nazis.

[shiningsylvia]

Yeah, but. I'm dueling fine, so the breakdown stuff would be connected to the space wizards on space whales. So if I do go beat up them up because a scary rich kid told me to before my brain connects to emotions again, I should have like 0 PTSD, right?

[theheadmonarch]

That's. Not. How. PTSD. Works.

[shiningsylvia]

Well, what happens if they just attack again? Then the PTSD would be like 500, right?

[theheadmonarch]

It depends, but exposing you to what was the original trauma tends to return on the trauma. Now you might not have PTSD, but. War's still never a good thing.

[shiningsylvia]

Well, yeah. But...

I feel restless, I guess? Restless and empty. Going to fight would give me something to do, and maybe help me feel better if I can take down the people that killed all those people.

[theheadmonarch]

Again, that's ultimately up to you to decide. I can tell you not to do it, by at the end of the day, I'm just your guidance counselor and school therapist.