1 This is a video of Eva’s memory.
As we walk with you through Eva’s room, you will find “home” videos of Eva’s memories. Here, we have an actress playing Eva, reading out the words of excerpts of 4.48 Psychosis (a favourite text of ours).
As we walk with you through Eva’s room, you will find “home” videos of Eva’s memories. Here, we have an actress playing Eva, reading out the words of excerpts of 4.48 Psychosis (a favourite text of ours).
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3 The orange keywords are linked to a compendium for more in-depth reading.
3 The orange keywords are linked to a compendium for more in-depth reading.
There is a performativity to this, a dramatization of her own experience before she is able to talk about her negative emotions and state of being. This is a common phenomenon in therapy sessions too. One can become adept at detaching and observing their own behaviour, even dramatizing it.
However, this could be a way of deflecting one’s overwhelming emotions. Letting yourself feel the full weight of emotions may seem too daunting to confront.
More than anything else, these are signs of a person struggling deeply with depression. What we see here is a distress signal — I am struggling in flashing neon signs, uploaded to the internet, the most public of spaces.
It helps.