Yeah, sometimes there's value in "I recognize this, someone else gets it too" or "It's not just me, it isn't simple and easy" or all kinds of things. The whole reason fiction is broad and varied with a wide range of tones, narratives, and approaches is because lots of different people can get lots of different things, not because so many people are Problematic and refusing to enjoy Wholesome, Heathy fiction out of badness or unhealthiness. (Ugh, yeah. The whole thing where if stories don't end with people being Cured, they have to be presented as having a big epiphany or something to create the impression of a Happy Ending, because the stories of people who don't get better, or fluctuate between Better and Still Pretty Bad, or can't boil down finding value in their life into some specific big change from Bad to Better have no value. And, ironically, it tends to give short shrift to recovery in mental health memoirs, because in trying to cram in one big, dramatic moment near the end of the book it largely avoids the fairly common and realistic "Messy fluctuations up and down, with healthier mindsets and behaviors being adopted, falling apart under stress, being picked back up again, gradually getting more and longer stretches of healthier, and eventually hitting a point where symptoms either fade out or become mild and manageable enough they're a lot easier to live with". It's all "Sickness, sickness, sickness, one big and dramatic turnaround, story over!")
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