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WCDT: 2430-2434 (22-26 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Sidhekin:
Nah, Clinton didn't do anything horrible. The awkwardness was already there, he just brought it to the surface. Information wants to be free, after all.
But even if not horrible, what he did was still a poor choice, and bad enough, if he in any way could have predicted Claire's reaction. And as close as those two seem to be, I see no reason to doubt that he could, unless he is terminally oblivious. Which, I suppose, he might well be ...
I've never had panic attacks myself. I've never witnessed panic attacks. But I have heard people tell of their panic attacks. It is not the actual horror that causes them. I'm not sure it is even the potential, imagined horror. It sounds more like the panic is triggered by trivial matters, and in turn triggers images of potential horror. But what Claire is displaying here (with or without scattering), is not the reaction that these people have told me about, so I suspect I'm on the wrong page entirely here. Off any map I know. :-\
Valdís:
--- Quote from: JustAQCFan on 24 Apr 2013, 08:21 ---Is it the end of the world, no... but it was still the wrong thing to do.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, also it's the first time we've seen Claire's tears, right? That doesn't exactly brush off the incident as him not doing anything bad.
Madmartigan:
Maybe I'm alone....but, better to rip off the scab quickly than do it slowly, metaphorically speaking.
I think Marten pretty much stopped worrying about it.
Claire just needed to get it out there rather than bottle it up.
Valdís:
You don't go around ripping up other people's, though. At most you tell them they ought to do that.
Neko_Ali:
Nnnnnot really. At least not in my personal experience. A lot of my panic attacks are triggered by more imagined and exaggerated things, but not minor or impossible. My biggest triggers are being around loud people, drunk people and people having arguments. Especially loud, drunk people having an argument, obviously. That stems from the fact that my father was an alcoholic. So I have very real reasons to fear that, even if it's not directed at me. Claire seems to have pretty strong issues regarding her parent's break up and possibly intimacy issues in general. Look at how she reacted when she found out Tai was going out with Marten's ex...
The physical and psychological reaction I get to my panic attacks, and from what I've heard is pretty common and seems to be what Claire is exhibiting here is triggering the 'flight' reaction. Causing me to withdraw and sometimes even have to run away from the source of the trigger, and then a long time of anxiety, jumpiness and a feeling that I am about to be physically attacked at any second until I am able to calm down. I don't talk any kind of medication for this then.
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