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My answer for this is my answer to any question about portraying an illness or trauma: talk to people who are suffering from it. People with depression and/or suicidal ideation may not always be w...
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2019-12-08T09:44:03Z (about 5 years ago)
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My answer for this is my answer to any question about portraying an illness or trauma: **talk to people who are suffering from it.** People with depression and/or suicidal ideation may not always be willing to discuss it, but if they are, they can help you write your characters in a way that's both realistic _and_ won't be upsetting to them. For an example of what _not_ to do, I know a lot of people who were quite upset by the graphic suicide scene in _13 Reasons Why_.
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2018-09-03T11:31:15Z (over 6 years ago)
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