Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-4141313-20181124081953/@comment-4141313-20181125055720

RaijinRising wrote: BlizzardDragon wrote: She certainly got closer to her old self toward the end of Volume 4 with the Tai sparring session. I want to stress that just because she's not doing well now doesn't mean she wasn't doing well before. Just like it is possible to relapse with addiction, it is entirely possible (and I have second-hand personal experience with this) for someone with mental illness to have even years of strong mental health before relapsing.

I just want to make the point that just because she's doing poorly now doesn't mean she hadn't had things under more control before. Except even then she never seemed to be in a good place. The only time she seemed fine was with Tai, but after that, she was losing her temper and having trembly hand almost every scene, even in an other peaceful scene with Ruby and Weiss until Blake came up, and whenever Raven got mentioned. Both sore points on their own, amplified by the PTSD.

She was forcing herself to get better for Tai's sake after overhearing him tell Oobleck and Port he couldn't go looking for Ruby yet, making her think she was a burden to him. So she didn't really get better. She forced it. Once she wasn't around Tai, her facade broke. Just look at her interaction with Shay D. Mann. Normally, she lost it when her hair was damaged, not neccesarily just touched. There, she bashed Shay like a pinball when he attempted to touch it. She was even quicker to the trigger than she used to be.

Yang hasn't gotten better, and I've been saying it for three volumes now. If anything, all the stressors in her life now have made her '''worse. '''Before leaving Patch, she was depressed and melancholic. Now, shes perpetually agravated and close to snapping.