{"id":261,"date":"2016-05-10T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=261"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:43:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:43:51","slug":"mental-health-may-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=261","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health May: Your Brain, an Occasionally Unreliable Narrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ZbvQusMO56U\/VzEL3M7VAaI\/AAAAAAAAF4E\/Tc7Uo9UHkpwlcixEZSKlqohnzjaDm4FkgCLcB\/s1600\/mental_health_month.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mental_health_month.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nIf you\u2019ve read The Great Gatsby, Lolita, or Wuthering Heights, you may recognize the phrase. It\u2019s used to describe a narrator who isn\u2019t telling you or can\u2019t tell you the whole story. They could be na\u00efve or they could be intentionally withholding information or they could be lying for their purposes. They might even tell you they\u2019re unreliable\u2014the Holden Caulfield approach.<\/p>\n<p>And anxiety? Depression? They\u2019re unreliable narrators. They\u2019re lying\u2014or at least not telling you the whole story.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Teens and adults need to know what a big, fat, stupid liar depression is. Emery Lord blogs <a href=\"https:\/\/twloha.com\/blog\/when-your-mind-is-an-unreliable-narrator\/\" target= _blank>at <i>To Write Love On Her Arms<\/i><\/a>and reminds us both how to sniff out an unreliable narrator in a novel &#8211; and in our brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve read The Great Gatsby, Lolita, or Wuthering Heights, you may recognize the phrase. It\u2019s used to describe a narrator who isn\u2019t telling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,55,67],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mental-health","tag-nonfiction","tag-tsd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8919,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}