mental disorders have always interested me. i wanted to be a psychiatrist for a while, but i'm sure if i had to sit there and listen to everyone's problems i would eventually need a psychiatrist of my own. i can see why many psychiatrists or therapists get depressed. it don't think listening to everyone's problems would be all that happy or optimistic. since i don't really know what else to write on that topic and would rather not write what's just going to go into my paper later, i'll write about a book i read once.
the book goes by the title identical. it's by ellen hopkins. identical features two characters. kaeleigh and raeanne. the book itself deals with an alcoholic district court judge father and a mother running for congress and a pair of identical twins. long story short, the father is also abusive to kaeleigh and raeanne is into drugs. everything went wrong eight years earlier when the twins were eight. there was a car crash. it's not until the end of the book that you find out one of the twins actually died in the crash. kaeleigh is real, while raeanne is a second personality. she's the one that copes with all of the abuse. it's honestly a bit confusing. you never would have guessed that raeanne was a second personality. but when it's all explained, it then makes a lot of sense. and it's probably one of the best portrayals of the disorder i've seen.
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