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"See, usually, if I hit my head on something, I feel worse afterwards, help me out here."

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"Sometimes I feel worse but sometimes I feel accomplished, and like I have a better sense of myself, and like I've expressed how I feel so now I can believe myself about it and go do something."

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"What I do about needing to get my feelings outside of myself is I write them down," she says. "And then I can look at them on paper and they're not chasing each other around in my head, and I can see if they make sense the way I can evaluate a book."
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"When I'm upset enough to bash my head I'm usually too upset to sit still and write."

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"Are there any things that would help calm you down from there without literally involving hitting your head?"

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"Jumping in cold water, maybe? What's wrong with hitting my head?"

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"In general if you start hurting yourself it will scare people."

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"I could do it alone in my room?"

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"...I guess that does solve that problem, although I still wish you'd think of something else."

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"I don't understand why."

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"I don't like thinking about you being hurt even if it's you that's doing it and you have a reason, because I love you."

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"I love you too, but if you were doing a thing that was important to you and it hurt, like glassblowing in a really hot furnace or something, I wouldn't be sad."

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"You wouldn't even try to invent a spell to keep me cool while I was doing it?"

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"Well, yeah, I would."

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"That's why I'm trying to figure out something that isn't hitting your head."

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"Maybe a spell that has really dramatic effects so I get the expressive feeling? But doesn't hurt?"

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"Sure. An illusion lightshow or something. Although if you're too upset to write you might be too upset to cast anything and you're often out of mana."

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"Not a lightshow. Something blast-y."

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"Um, what would you be blasting?"

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"Water? I could blast water at the cobblestones. It cleans them."

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"Okay, so we can maybe invent you a water blast spell."

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"Yeah. Then I'll do that instead of hitting my head."

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"What if you're upset and out of mana, or too upset to concentrate on a spell?"

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"Hit my head. Or jump in cold water, or something."

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"Maybe we will think of something else eventually. Jumping in water isn't that bad."
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