Talk:The Seventh Session/@comment-25029585-20140619001820/@comment-25030945-20140630125444

Well, I really had a lot of directions I wanted this story to go, unfortunately, there can be only one in the written form. As I was brainstorming, I was considering making this 11 sessions long, and gradually introducing a new personality of the "subject" every 2 or 3 sessions. However, it was getting increasingly difficult in my draft to produce quality sessions after about the 5th or 6th session, so I had decided to either make the ending violent, where an ominous personality presented himself and the doctor and other characters were real, or twist it to make this all have been one person living out a sick fantasy in his own mind.

Ultimately, I chose the latter. In the end, this is basically a schizophrenic's personal journal while being contained in a corrections facility. Everything except the final statement from the facility itself was completely fabricated in the mind of the subject. I personally suffer from Schizophrenia, non-violent mind you :), and can tell you that from my personal experiences and some of the things i've witnessed in mental health hospitals over the last thirteen years, that humans who suffer from mental health illnesses can create a world in their own mind that many, many normal people could never began to fathom. So, while the story is of course fiction, there is always the very real reality that people elike this could be out there. And that's where I was trying to get the scare factor in, the possibilities :)

Thanks for reading and your review Steel!