@agmoore, you make feel very special! Thank you for taking a lot of your time to go through my work and provide me such meaningful feedback! I am overwhelmed by it ❤ I like Christophe too. He is full of prejudice, but he is not bad. He just doesn't know better. He is a being in transformation.
I was fascinated by the way you presented the two perspectives the audience can see the Abandoned Houses' protagonist from. That was something I only realized when I read some of the comments. It was an eye opener for me, as a fiction writer. It is funny, because that same outcome happens in research. Especially in qualitative research.
The observations you made about the post about depression reminded me of a study that analysed changes in dendritic spines seen in animal models, by Mitra and Sapolky (2008), who injected high doses of corticosterone in rats, for one entire day, to represent intense stress. After 12 days they saw that the rats had sprouted more dendrites in their amygdala neurons. This was sufficient to produce long-term anxiety and depressive behaviour.
I read the comment you left me last night to my husband. He was in awe of your words and the wisdom they convey. I am seriously considering to begin to draft something that will either be what I will later call my book, or something that eventually direct me to that path 😊
That makes me happy! And reading your blogs was a valuable way to spend my time:)