Okay, I kinda scanned through the reasoning for not using crazy. I missed what PWMD was the first time. I guess mental illnesses are included in the mental disabilities part of PWMD?
Old trusty soda machine. I push you for root beer, you give me Coke.
Willow ,'End of Days'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
askye - Jan 03, 2012 2:13:21 pm PST #8073 of 10459
Thrive to spite them
§ ita § - Jan 03, 2012 2:16:07 pm PST #8074 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But the sort of mentally ill that Drusilla is *is* a negative connotation. I don't want to get into a debate if they all are, but she damned sure is. Give her a word, dammit.
DavidS - Jan 03, 2012 2:25:55 pm PST #8075 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
But the sort of mentally ill that Drusilla is *is* a negative connotation. I don't want to get into a debate if they all are, but she damned sure is. Give her a word, dammit.
Right, it's problematic to call her craziness "mental illness" since she's actively evil in a bizarrely unstable way. It makes her evil ways sound like she's got a deficit of neurotransmitters - like she's not choosing it - but I don't think you can separate the evil from the crazy in her case.
P.M. Marc - Jan 03, 2012 2:27:12 pm PST #8076 of 10459
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
How the hell is he going to handle Normal Again?
sj - Jan 03, 2012 2:30:42 pm PST #8077 of 10459
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I can't even imagine how to describe what Angel did to Druscilla, other than to say that he drover her crazy or insane.
Scrappy - Jan 03, 2012 2:38:41 pm PST #8078 of 10459
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
You could say he damaged her.
askye - Jan 03, 2012 2:39:30 pm PST #8079 of 10459
Thrive to spite them
would describing her as a vampire with psychosis be acceptable? Or a psychotic vampire.
Her behavior fits the technical definition of psychosis
Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality, usually including false beliefs about what is taking place or who one is (delusions) and seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations).
You could say Angel drove Druscilla to a mental breakdown that left her in a permanent state of psychosis that is made worse by her lack of a soul.
le nubian - Jan 03, 2012 3:07:38 pm PST #8080 of 10459
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
but she is cray-cray!
brenda m - Jan 03, 2012 3:20:56 pm PST #8081 of 10459
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Man, wish I'd thought to record that.
le nubian - Jan 03, 2012 3:47:39 pm PST #8082 of 10459
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
You know, I don't see Dru as Luna Lovegood. Luna is so much stronger than Dru ever was pre-vamp.