Imagery
· Swollen, wet eyes
· Constricted chest
· Closed off body language
· Physical/ emotional weight
· Scars, tattoos ,body markings
· brain dump as in a dump filled with brains
· amygdala, the thalamus, and the hippocampus
· Neurogenesis
· send and receive signals,
· Stretching out from the cell body are short, branchlike fibers called dendrites and one longer, more prominent fiber called the axon.
Rousing the body, the physical stress response, fight or flight
Personification
· if a secret was a person, what would it would it look like?
o Shifty eyed
o quiet

· If sadness was a person what would it would it look like?
§ Eyes downcast and absent
§ Head in hands
§ Rain, darkness,water
§ Wading against the currant
· Deceit
o Masked, mirrored, reflected
o Squeezing all your life force out for some one else buck
o Feeding off you
· Anger
o Eyes bulging
o Skin flushed
o spitting
· Shame
· Despair
o brain dump as in "done", spent out
o collapsed
o
Understood subject
· Hiding
· Bury
· Shelter
· Take cover (under covers)
· Cache (a hidden place where you keep the truths of who you are/ how you fell)
Metaphor
· Serotonin blockers like gates, fortresses
· still born-living in the world without feeling yourself
· you’ve caught me red-handed and I’m as guilty as a thief (self-harm)
· two people/ twins/ doppleganger/ shapeshifter
· a stream of consciousness, dumping your ideas into a song
Storyline
· Transparency, invisibility, losing one's voice, and being stuck behind walls or other barriers are some of the terms used to describe the subjective experience of dissociative
· two selves, your persona that you present to the world ,and you’re the parts of your that you hide (the problem is that you slef you present makes life easier to manage, BUT you have to go home to/live with the hidden self. If you do not choose to present your true self to others you have nothing to help you coexist with/ understand your hidden self.
· a battle between the protagonist and their own psychosis/ neurosis
· not the heart but the brain
· not killing yourself, but “killing” a part of yourself- the lie, the facade
· the war only begins once the protagonist has stopped lying and accepted who they are
A. P. is awoken by a feeling beckoning to her (Rousing the body, the physical stress response, fight or flight)
b. Constricted chest, hears beating, running
c. In an exhausted dreary haze, vision blurred from tears and swollen eyes, trudges as is wading from water to whatever summons
d P. meets A. (A. is a mirror or mask or reflection that comes to life)
e. A. ask P to lay with her (covered buried)
f. A. cuts/harms/marks P.

h. P. lashes out at A. (anger/blood). A screams but no sound comes out “Kills”/ silences A.
i. P. realizes A. is her own reflection, and sees the harm she has done to herself, realize she has to heal her own wounds.