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fandomhigh2017-11-09 09:07 am
sharp_man) wrote in fandomhigh2017-11-09 09:07 am
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First Aid for Fandom | Thursday, period 1
The Danger Shop today looked like a comfortable (albeit somewhat luxurious) living room - not a body in sight.
Yet, anyway.
"Not all first aid, particularly in Fandom, involves physical damage," Hannibal said. "This past Halloween's happenings involved little or no wounding, so far as I'm aware or radio reported. However, there are undoubtedly those who have been harmed by it. Psychological damage can be more difficult to detect and treat, but it is nonetheless there."
He leaned on the edge of a table and looked them over. "It also demands an entirely different sort of first aid. In some respects, it is the same as you've been learning so far - treat the symptoms until the individual can arrive at professional help. However, in this time and place, professional help of a psychological nature is often denigrated or even shunned, and your help may be the only assistance a person gets - if they are even willing to accept it."
He smiled wryly. "Which is not to say I expect any of you to become experts in psychology and psychological damage. But learning what you can of it would certainly be helpful. Today's exercise, then, will be to speak to each other. I want each of you to come up with one thing that has hurt you, even traumatized you, in the past. Talk about it, discuss why it hurt, and work with each other to come up with something that would have helped at the time, and perhaps something that might even help now."
He held up a hand. "If you are uncomfortable with speaking of a past trauma in front of your classmates, come up with something reasonable, perhaps something that hurt someone that you've known. Solve someone else's problem if not your own. Although you would also do well to consider on your own why it is you have such issues with a thing still. And of course," he spread his hands, "should you wish professional help, please feel free to see me after class."
Yet, anyway.
"Not all first aid, particularly in Fandom, involves physical damage," Hannibal said. "This past Halloween's happenings involved little or no wounding, so far as I'm aware or radio reported. However, there are undoubtedly those who have been harmed by it. Psychological damage can be more difficult to detect and treat, but it is nonetheless there."
He leaned on the edge of a table and looked them over. "It also demands an entirely different sort of first aid. In some respects, it is the same as you've been learning so far - treat the symptoms until the individual can arrive at professional help. However, in this time and place, professional help of a psychological nature is often denigrated or even shunned, and your help may be the only assistance a person gets - if they are even willing to accept it."
He smiled wryly. "Which is not to say I expect any of you to become experts in psychology and psychological damage. But learning what you can of it would certainly be helpful. Today's exercise, then, will be to speak to each other. I want each of you to come up with one thing that has hurt you, even traumatized you, in the past. Talk about it, discuss why it hurt, and work with each other to come up with something that would have helped at the time, and perhaps something that might even help now."
He held up a hand. "If you are uncomfortable with speaking of a past trauma in front of your classmates, come up with something reasonable, perhaps something that hurt someone that you've known. Solve someone else's problem if not your own. Although you would also do well to consider on your own why it is you have such issues with a thing still. And of course," he spread his hands, "should you wish professional help, please feel free to see me after class."
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Except for Special Collections, but Special Collections really didn't come with the sort of insights that she was looking for.
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"So, what perspective can you give me on being a functionally immortal being from a society of functionally immortal beings, suddenly stranded on a world where the dominant sentient species is a race of fragile creatures that basically begins eroding the minute they reach maturity?"
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"Uh-huh."
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Which just meant her sour look was growing a little more sour.
"I think I'll stick to asking my books for further insights on the matter."
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