#and ok so she wasn’t suicidal and being bedridden didn’t affect her income so maybe her state wasn’t as alarming as it could have been

[the-butler-siblings]

do y’all know that post that’s like

Child: ‘I’m experiencing Symptoms so I think I have Disorder’

Parent (who experiences those same exact Symptoms and that exact Disorder): ‘no you don’t those are normal things that everyone does’

yeah idk how because my brain is tired but I feel like this could apply to Artemis and Angeline... i might be completely wrong but I’m just. Thinking. (ok I ended up writing a lot more than I thought I was going to)

- Thinking about mental health being an obviously uncomfortable topic in the Fowl family (Angeline sent Artemis to a psychiatrist but I get the vibes that she thought that would make his mental health someone else’s responsibility),

- and how if a parent isn’t willing to talk about their own experience with mental illness their kid is probably gonna feel like they’re all alone in their struggle and like something’s wrong with them for having that struggle in the first place,

- and how Angeline is self-aware enough to earn a phd in psychology explicitly because of her episode in book 1

- and how Artemis was probably genetically predisposed to experiencing mental illness like the atlantis complex, and even if he isn’t,

- if Angeline had taken some time to talk to him about her mental health problems and expressed regret that she hadn’t sought more robust psychiatric treatment, he might have been more open to seeking treatment for himself before his symptoms got worse

Yeah idk I might be completely wrong but I just. Have a lot of thoughts about Angeline Fowl. And wow this really was just a stream of consciousness, and didn’t actually connect to the first bit, but uh. Feel free to add on if you want lol

#artemis fowl #angeline fowl #essays #kind of? #the atlantis complex #book 1 #idk it’s hard to judge how much treatment she got in book 1 #it mentions physicians who prescribed ‘rest and sleeping pills’ #and ok so she wasn’t suicidal and being bedridden didn’t affect her income so maybe her state wasn’t as alarming as it could have been #but I have to imagine that such a wealthy woman could have access to better treatment than That #anyway fuck every single one of those doctors