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WCDT strips 4046-4050 (15 - 19 July 2019)
Wingy:
Not to change the subject from mental illness, but can anyone read the board behind Hanners? Advice is 2, Good advice is 69 (snrk!), and above that is a scribble I can't read and "no" as the price. What doth the scribble sayest???
Tova:
Affogato.
Oenone:
It’s also possible Hannelore thinks she’s “better” because she’s been practicing her self care skills in a context wildly divorced from her daily life. It might be that when she’s presented her old triggers she struggles more. We might see a return of JUICY or her mom, both of which would test her.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 18 Jul 2019, 07:25 ---We might see a return of JUICY or her mom, both of which would test her.
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Or it's revealed that her mom facilitated her adventures somehow/had someone watching over her and she has to juggle the righteous fury at her mother for interfering after being cut off against her insecurities and self-doubt creeping in ("How much of my success in this journey was my own?").
I agree that her mom doesn't seem to be the type to handle someone (even family) standing up to her well or just let it go. I can see her skirting the exact terms Hanners set in their confrontation and things coming to a head. That said, it would be interesting to see her mother's perspective on their relationship change. We've always seen her treat motherhood as some kind of obligation or liability, but Hanners has demonstrated that she can take on her mother's aspect as much as her father's or her own. This might have been the first time her mother has truly seen herself in her daughter and I'd love to see the aftermath of that.
She's still an asshole for using her daughter as a tool for corporate negotiation (I just want to be clear).
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 18 Jul 2019, 07:25 ---It’s also possible Hannelore thinks she’s “better” because she’s been practicing her self care skills in a context wildly divorced from her daily life. It might be that when she’s presented her old triggers she struggles more. We might see a return of JUICY or her mom, both of which would test her.
--- End quote ---
Oenone, please correct me if I'm reading it wrong, but the way you cast that first sentence using quotation marks makes it sound to me like you believe Hanners is deluded in her belief that her condition has improved.
I would argue that if she feels better and is finding it less challenging to negotiate the world around her, she IS better. If it takes a JUICY or Beatrice level trigger to disrupt her day now, that's still a major improvement. Her threshold used to be much lower.
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