Category: Gaslighting

Why I become emotionally attached to fictional characters

December 13, 2021

I become emotionally attached to characters in the books I read and the TV series I watch. Not all books or series, they don’t all elicit deep feelings for me, but the characters who do are very real for me. And even to me that sounds strange. For example, when my life gets too stressful … More Why I become emotionally attached to fictional characters

Expressing our inner questions: Writing and reading as therapy

January 23, 2018

Writing was something I started as a very young girl. I could read when I was four and my earliest journals started after my best friend was killed in a fire when I was five, he was only six. That was not something I could make sense of. I wrote from the age of five … More Expressing our inner questions: Writing and reading as therapy