As the final moments of last week’s “Good-Bye Vibrations” implied, something was not quite right with Cecile and soon enough, both viewers and the team found out exactly how wrong things were with the return of Psycho Pirate.
She’s been trapped inside a psychic prison this whole time while the mask controlled her, working to get the actual mask so that they could create a permanent bond.
I wanted to say that Cecile had a breakdown because there are very few people who make it through life without suffering anxiety, depression, having a breakdown, needing a mental health break, needing to seek help, and her process throughout her life, of having these issues and trying to stuff them down and then, here they are manifesting themselves in the worst possible way, I felt like it was such an important message to send that it’s okay.
You mentioned specifically wanting to say depression and anxiety.
I don’t know if you noticed, the very last scene of the episode with Cecile and Joe talking, Eric felt so strongly and I agreed with him 100% that we had to specifically say in our community this is an issue.
I’m the one who’s not fine’ and usually it’s the one that you think has it all together is the one who is maybe not dealing with something or doesn’t feel safe to acknowledge that they’re having issues or like was said in the episode doesn’t want you to think that they’re weak.
What was really fascinating about this episode was how they brought back the villain Psycho Pirate with the mask, but the mask was using Cecile’s perceived weakness against her.
I will just say that moving forward Cecile like anyone else is when you confront your issues when you stop stuffing them down and you actually own them and you let people love you through them.
This episode spoke to me personally very deeply as I have some of the same experiences Cecile speaks of.
And also it’s okay to work, but we don’t have to use work to avoid dealing with life and I feel like that’s something that society, we’re all encouraged to do oh just keep working, just keep working, just keep working.