Talk:Yang Xiao Long/@comment-4010415-20170821082816

If/when Yang sees Adam again, I want her to have a lot of anxiety instead of instantly being okay seeing him in person again. And maybe, afterward, she would be frustrated with herself and say something like "I thought I was ready."

It's one thing to think "I'm gonna face the thing that traumatized me", it's a whole other to actually be in the same room as that thing or find yourself back in the same or a similar situation. It's similar to when we're watching a movie and we're like "That guy's being an idiot! I wouldn't do that!" We think we wouldn't, but we don't really know until we're actually in that situation, in the reality of it. You look at it with your imagination, where it's not real, while you're in a calm state of mind. But it's an entirely different experience when it is real and you have a more fearful state of mind.