Terminology
A serious mood disorder that causes persistent feelings of sadness, emptiness, and a loss of interest in activities
What is depression?
This was Lydia's form of escapism
What is suicide?
This is Marilyn’s primary unfulfilled career dream that she forces Lydia to pursue
What is becoming a doctor/practicing medicine/physician?
James works in this academic profession at Lloyd College, where he teaches American History
What is a College professor/teacher?
What is Mental Health America?
A clinical term for describing the explicit intentional act of causing one’s own death
What is suicide/self-destruction?
The person, who Lydia confides in more than anyone else in her family
Who is Jack?
This material object, discovered by Marilyn in the kitchen, symbolizes her domestic containment and her mother’s traditional lifestyle
What is a cookbook/Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book?
This was James form of escapism after Lydia's death
What is infidelity (the act of having an affair outside of a relationship)?
This organization's acronym is WPA
What is World Psychiatric Association?
A psychological state characterized by profound emotional isolation and a complete lack of support from peers or family
What is alienation/loneliness/social isolation?
Rather than seeking help, Lydia concealed this from her parents
What is failing her physics exam?
Marilyn vanishes from the family home for several months to temporarily attend this educational institution in Toledo.
What is a college/university?
The core desire drives James throughout his entire life due to his experience growing up as a first-generation American
What is social assimilation/fitting in/cultural acceptance?
This number is an emergency phone number used in North America for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
What is 988?
A behavioral pattern where an individual hides extreme internal trauma behind academic success and outward compliance
What is silent success/masked depression/high-functioning anxiety?
Lydia faked this activity to convince her parents that she had an active social life
What is pretending to call her friends on the phone?
Marilyn gifts these to Lydia as a way of projecting her own ambitions onto her daughter
What are Textbooks?/Science Textbooks?
This specific material object, which James gifts to Lydia, symbolizes his desperate desire for his daughter to achieve social popularity
What is a silver mesh necklace/jewelry piece?
What is World Health Organization (WHO)?
The euthanasia and assisted suicide based on mainly psychiatric disorders rather than terminal physical illness (not widely legalized due to ethical/moral concerns)
What is Psychiatric EAS?
Lydia’s burden that she took with her to her grave
What is the lack of agency and autonomy?
Marilyn says this word that upsets James heavily
What is Kow-Tow?
James projects his own childhood insecurities onto Lydia because he lacked this specific experience during his own youth
What is popularity/social inclusion?
This organization funds the 988 Lifeline and general research on Mental Health services
What is Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)?