Sorry if this isn't the right board to ask this.I'm writing two very deep characters and I'm a little over my head. I need to do a lot of research on some mental illnesses before I truly begin.I've read a great deal of articles about it on the internet

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Anonymous 10/11/14 (Sat) 06:59:48 No.266

Sorry if this isn't the right board to ask this.
I'm writing two very deep characters and I'm a little over my head. I need to do a lot of research on some mental illnesses before I truly begin.
I've read a great deal of articles about it on the internet but it's all most vague and not as in-depth as I had hoped it to be. I'm hoping there's more.
Character 1 was kidnapped at a young age, held against their will in a small office alone, and the rare instances when they were not alone, they were being manhandled and raped.
Before all of this occurred, they were exposed to murder and sociopath behavior. The closest real life comparison I could make would be a child being raised by Brazilian drug kingpins.

Character 2 is both a psychopath and a narcissist.

tl;dr what is some dependable material one could read about the effects it has on a child to grow up in an extremely toxic 3rd world environment, the long term effects rape has on a child, and characteristics and mannerisms people suffering from psychopathy and narcissistic personality disorder have?

Anonymous 10/13/14 (Mon) 06:59:04 No.289

A quick Google…
https://www.google.com/search?q=my+story+rape+effects+psychological

…brought up some in depth articles:
http://www.giftfromwithin.org/html/journey.html
http://www.power2u.org/articles/trauma/annas_story.html

I have no idea about dependable sources though, or where to look in general. Studies are always too esoteric to be practical, for me.

I don't think you'll find in-depth reporting on particular 3rd world cases, you generally just get that broad description of widespread trends.

Particular stories can provide a certain insight, and in practice writing the characters probably entails more than adding issue X's behaviour traits to Y's. It helps if you can draw from general knowledge about psychological behaviour, fight or flight, mental health issues in general. Personally I would write characters around something I know a lot about, because I would also want creative freedom.

I find this is a good resource in general, you will get an outline of different psychological stereotypes here:
http://personalitypage.com

>characteristics and mannerisms people suffering from psychopathy and narcissistic personality disorder
I would just do a lot of Googling and figure it out via intuition. That might not be practical for you, but I don't have any better ideas.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2008/08/04/how-to-spot-a-narcissist/

http://psychopathyawareness.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/the-list-of-psychopathy-symptoms/
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/a/psychopaths.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pROu77TvZzA