YES.
Therapist: What an excellent way to allow yourself to imagine hope and healing in a safe container. That’s very wise of you.
My therapist legit thought fic was a very creative outlet to process my emotions and experiences
Baby Writer Me, in the 90s and 00s, traumatizing characters both canon and original: This is amazing, can I just keep doing this?
Random haughty writers and editors: Obviously there’s something wrong with you, stop doing that to your characters.
My ADHD Therapist, many years later: Oh, that’s fantastic, please keep on doing it.
See? Those snobby editors back then were wrong all along.
Writing as therapy is well established. Fuck anyone who says different. Write. Write for your goddamn life.
(via love-lays-bleeding)
