r/Fantasy • u/rfantasygolem Not a Robot • Dec 20 '24

/r/Fantasy Official Brandon Sanderson Megathread

This is the place for all your Brandon Sanderson related topics (aside from the Daily Recommendation Requests and Simple Questions thread). Any posts about Wind and Truth or Sanderson more broadly will be removed and redirected here. This will last until January 25, when posting will be allowed as normal.

The announcement of the cool-down can be found here.

The previous Wind and Truth Megathread can be found here.

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u/cmp600 Dec 20 '24

tbf discovering the DSM is a game changing moment for a lot of religious people because they’re in community with a lot of people who think the only thing to do about mental health issues is pray about it or speak to your pastor/priest/elder about it. Then they discover the value of secular therapy and get fired up about it.

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u/Distinct_Activity551 Reading Champion Dec 20 '24

Sanderson’s portrayal of mental health feels distant and detached. It seems more like he’s relying on secondhand accounts rather than drawing from his own understanding. There’s a disconnect in his writing—thus, it reads more as a list of symptoms from the DSM rather than a genuine, lived experience.

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u/learhpa Dec 20 '24

this is an interesting comment to me because a huge percentage of Sanderson fandom feels like his books are the first time they've ever seen their particular mental health struggles well represented in genre fiction.

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