October Novel Prep Challenge

This is a FANTASTIC idea - very timely. Society is working hard (and loudly) to destigmatize mental illness, and I also see parallels to some political issues. Off the top of my head:

- what if mental illness were normalized too far, such that society identified mental illness as a character trait rather than how it is currently considered (a disease)

- what if doctors stopped treating mental illness entirely

- (or) what if we normalized having the choice to treat our mental illness vs having it forced upon us by society/law enforcement/doctors/politicians (parallels to abortion rights?)

- (or) what if it went the other way, and mental illness was treated as a crime / made illegal (parallels to criminalization of homosexuality in some cultures?) What would your character need to do to stay out of jail / off the execution block? Would there be secret organizations supporting people with mental illness? Docs who treat mental illness on the DL, also occasionally getting in trouble for it? Since your character keeps doing Bad Things, seems likely they will get caught...


Cheers,
Michelle