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A Psychologist to an Escapist fiction writer. The answers to your Whys.
I am a Psychologist. I hear stories, mostly agonizing ones. We are trained not to take our patients home (In our minds). We are trained to be a mirror than a sponge, a mirror they could reflect upon. A wall they can lean on to in their days of miseries and yet use the same wall to support them to get up. But then, it would be a lie if I would admit I don’t think about them!
At times I feel if I could have superhuman abilities and fly back to their pasts and change things, or may be fix things for them in their present.
What wouldn't I do to help them escape their miseries? I always wish and hope if I could take all their pain away.
I try to help as a therapist, as a counsellor, as a Psychologist. But my abilities are limited in that sense.
However, my imagination is not!
Through my stories I help them escape!
Through my stories I make it happen for them, give them a happily ever after!
Through my stories, I heal myself!
The people who's lives I have touched hold a very special place in my heart, and some way or the other I give them a place in my books! An ending they deserve, may be if it’s in a remote fictional sense of way.
Thus, my books are more about Escapism.
I do not pour out their secrets there, not in a sense of breaching any confidentiality. I tell their stories, not completely though like a biography or some sort of recreation of events, if I would do that it would be deceiving them. So, It’s always a dash of reality mixed with a bit of drama, may be magic at times and then I take my characters for a ride. It is not always an entire story of one person but a confluence of characters and certain events that link particularly to no one in a wholesome way.
Off lately, I have been getting requests by my patients themselves to tell their stories. May be, I would do that someday too.
So that is my explanation or rationale of why I am a full time Psychologist who indulge herself in writing fantasy fiction or escapist literature instead of academic books or high voltage psychological thrillers. As the saying goes, don’t judge a book by it’s covers or an author by there profession even though there’s a clear link between the two.
At times I feel if I could have superhuman abilities and fly back to their pasts and change things, or may be fix things for them in their present.
What wouldn't I do to help them escape their miseries? I always wish and hope if I could take all their pain away.
I try to help as a therapist, as a counsellor, as a Psychologist. But my abilities are limited in that sense.
However, my imagination is not!
Through my stories I help them escape!
Through my stories I make it happen for them, give them a happily ever after!
Through my stories, I heal myself!
The people who's lives I have touched hold a very special place in my heart, and some way or the other I give them a place in my books! An ending they deserve, may be if it’s in a remote fictional sense of way.
Thus, my books are more about Escapism.
I do not pour out their secrets there, not in a sense of breaching any confidentiality. I tell their stories, not completely though like a biography or some sort of recreation of events, if I would do that it would be deceiving them. So, It’s always a dash of reality mixed with a bit of drama, may be magic at times and then I take my characters for a ride. It is not always an entire story of one person but a confluence of characters and certain events that link particularly to no one in a wholesome way.
Off lately, I have been getting requests by my patients themselves to tell their stories. May be, I would do that someday too.
So that is my explanation or rationale of why I am a full time Psychologist who indulge herself in writing fantasy fiction or escapist literature instead of academic books or high voltage psychological thrillers. As the saying goes, don’t judge a book by it’s covers or an author by there profession even though there’s a clear link between the two.
