![]() ![]() I can’t stop thinking about her spiraling thoughts. The creators of Real Friends Shannon Hale and LeUyen Pham are back with a true story about popularity, first crushes, and finding your own path in the graphic novel, Best Friends. So reading Best Friends where Shannon Hale covers anxiety and OCD (presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both) was really interesting to see unfold within such a young character. “I wonder if I’ve got any of the 374 mental disorders,” I thought.Īnd I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones. Like Jon Ronson wrote in his book The Psychopath Test: It’s simply impossible after you read the DSM to not look for signs of a disorder in every behavior. This must be like book editors who can’t mentally stop correcting the writing they read in their free time. ![]() ![]() Speaking of, yes, I still cannot stop analyzing the characters I encounter in books. How did we all survive that? And more importantly, why do little kids act so mean? I guess that’s why I’m studying Psychology. Description: Eighth-grader Shannon’s life is more challenging than ever. The boys being mean just to appear ‘cool’, the girls being in constant competition, the petty fighting, the gossiping. Main Characters: Shannon, Jane, Heather Themes: Friendship, Betrayal, Loyalty, Family Setting: Shannon, a young woman in middle school, is followed in the graphic novel Best Friends as she makes and loses friends while looking for herself. Everything covered in Best Friends reminded just how glad I am not to be in the sixth grade *shudders*. Shannon Hale managed to yank out all those suppressed memories from those early school years. ![]()
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