[Text] Mental Health Questions Backdated to Yesterday

[firstbump]

((OOC Content Warning: Right now no real warnings, but Ardbert's from a world without mental health asking how to learn more about it, although he knows enough for various reasons to be sensitive about the subject. I'll add warnings to individual threads if things come up.))

[[ Now that both Era and Emet-Selch are unconscious, Ardbert feels free to ask this question. It's in text, as to not make anyone feel like they have to answer with video or voice. Also, because it lets him work with the wording. This is... sensitive. He needs be careful about his responses. ]]

How can I learn more about mental health? The natives haven't schools and their books and videos speak naught of it. My world's healers only know how to treat bodies not minds.

I know the basics of basics. I will never be qualified to treat people but I want to be absolutely certain that the impact of my actions and words are positive not negative.

Do we have any psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, books, anything? Much of what I've already learned is through ways that others in worlds like mine can't experience. Isn't that a dangerous thing in a world that needs love to survive? Shouldn't that be fixed?

[[ EDITED TO ADD. After getting information from Noct and Tony, Ardbert adds this to his message, along with the relevant info that goes with it: ]]

There are some resources. I didn't know where to look. There are therapists and the like, as well as a number to call if you need it. Don't be afraid to reach out. There's nothing wrong in needing help.

Comments

[firstbump]

You'll have my axe. ... or a hand, if that's what you need.

Thank you, Noct.

[carbungle]

[After a few minutes, attached to Noct's reply is a photo of a small caricature doodle of Ardbert with an axe for one hand, looking very determined.]

np anytime

[firstbump]

[[ A couple of minutes pass as Ardbert breathes quietly and looks at the picture, running a hand over the edge of the picture, just under the axe. It makes him smile. He's going to have to ask Era how to save this picture to his phone when she wakes up, as he's forgotten. ]]

I didn't know you could draw. Thank you, Noctis. Needed that smile.

[carbungle]

no big deal its just a hobby

glad it helps tho, i can send more stupid stuff @ u

[firstbump]

A good hobby.

I can't say no to more "stupid stuff".

[carbungle]

[Rather than a normal response, around 20 minutes later another image arrives, this time a 'chibi' style of Era, drooling and sleeping, buried in a pile of birds.]

[firstbump]

Ha! You've caught her likeness, all right. Could see me doing the same. She looks pretty comfy.

[carbungle]

just be sure 2 take ur axe hand off first

[firstbump]

It's already off. Era doesn't let me take it upstairs.

[carbungle]

lol sounds good. ill add u in

[firstbump]

Let's see who you think drools more: me or her.

[carbungle]

[A little while later a fresh doodle arrives, or rather an altered one; Ardbert has been added to the bird pile, slumped against the side of it. Beneath them is a pool of drool, trickling from both mouths and making it impossible to tell who's the bigger contributor.]

[firstbump]

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