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WCDT Strips 3456-3460 (10th to 14th April 2017)
blt:
--- Quote from: Tova on 10 Apr 2017, 04:50 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---Basically, I think that we can say that Bubbles is somewhat neurotic.
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I'm not sure I'd go quite that far.
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Maybe in terms of the meaning of neurotic as being mentally ill, but Bubbles is just about the definition of neuroticism on the Big Five scale.
Tova:
I'm unfamiliar with that, actually.
Okay, well let's break this down a bit more.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---She's nervous about how people will react to her ...
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Does that count as neurotic when she has completely valid reasons for being nervous about how people react to her? I'm not sure it does. I'm no psychologist, though.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---... she's nervous about the possibility that Faye is ignoring her ...
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I don't think so, but maybe I'm misunderstanding this one. She's annoyed about being treated as a subordinate. That's neither nervousness, nor is it about feeling ignored.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---... she's nervous about whether she can care for a potted plant ...
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I don't see this either. She's rather heavily invested in it, more than one might expect, but she does not appear to be nervous about it in any way.
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---She's someone who needs a lot of reassurance and communication to help her handle her fears.
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Well, she handled them quite independently before Faye came along, so I don't see that either.
I certainly wouldn't have drawn that conclusion from her reaction to recent events. I thought that her reaction to the way Faye is behaving was perfectly sane and not even remotely "neurotic."
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Tova on 10 Apr 2017, 05:56 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2017, 04:29 ---She's someone who needs a lot of reassurance and communication to help her handle her fears.
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Well, she handled them quite independently before Faye came along, so I don't see that either.
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Actually, she didn't even come close to handling them independently. She just hid in her cell, occasionally had angry outbursts and tried to eschew all but the most necessary social contact with others. Yes, Corpse Witch reinforced those behaviours but they were still there to start with.
I'm not saying that Bubbles is 'insane' in the specific definition or even broader terms of the word. What I'm saying is that she has genuine emotional difficulties (some if not all of which are certainly trauma-induced) and this leads her to react in extreme ways to social and personal pressures.
Tova:
Yes, you are right for sure. She has emotional difficulties without a doubt, unfortunately.
Her emotional difficulties may well even interact with the way she deals with the disagreement she has now had with Faye. We will soon see.
I don't think that her reaction to Faye's unilateral decision-making indicates any kind of emotional difficulties, though. Her reaction is quite understandable to me. I guess that is what I was really trying to say.
sitnspin:
Having emotional difficulties and being neurotic are not the same thing.
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