How does your world handle mental health?
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Personally, my world called Tenereb has many different ways of approaching mental health, but I will focus on the central part of the continent, which is where my main story is. <br><br>In central Tenereb, there are a lot of what you would call witches. There are two kinds of magic: magic from power, and magic from blood. Magic from power is a magical power that has been passed down in families for a very long time; for example, magic to make a scenic and beautiful garden, magic to kill swiftly without pain, magic to make a house out of sticks and leaves. Magic from blood is the kind of magic where the magic user bleeds for their magic, and it is largely healing. <br><br>Healing in this world is a lot different than this world, as magic is involved, and if somebody is hurt and bleeds too much, they will have the blood drained from their body and put in the ground to call a healer. A healer is very hard to become; they have to bleed enough to heal whatever is wrong with the person. For example, if a leg is broken, they need to bleed enough to heal a broken leg. The process of becoming a healer is very difficult, and it is not a job that is to be taken lightly, because it is very hard to do and you will need to bleed your whole life in order to be a healer. <br><br>Because of how physically demanding healing is, many people are scared to become a healer, which is why there aren't that many of them, and you need to bleed a lot to call one, which is also a very dangerous process and can leave you very dehydrated. <br><br>Because becoming a healer is so difficult and so dangerous, many people fear people with blood magic, and many people think that healers are nothing but tools, and that they are weak in the head because they are willing to bleed constantly in order to help other people. This is why healers are not to be trusted in this world. <br><br>Many years prior to the events of my story, a particular healer was very respected, admired, and adored in her town. She was the only healer there was, so she was a very important person. She was very kind and selfless, and she did everything in her power to make sure her people were healthy and happy. <br><br>Out of nowhere, she just left. She left the town and her people and went to a very large city. She was very sad, and became a recluse, and refused to bleed. She refused to heal. She refused to do anything at all but keep to herself. <br><br>It turned out that she was bleeding so much when she healed that she was slowly figuring out how to take all the pain away from the world. She figured out that she could heal anything, fix anything, make anything right, and she was going to do it. She was going to heal all the pain from the world. <br><br>One day, she realized that the pain would never go away. No matter how much she bled, no matter how much she healed, there was always going to be pain. There was always going to be something wrong with the world. She realized that healing was a waste of time, and she left. <br><br>She refused to heal, even when people begged and pleaded with her to do so. She lived the rest of her life in sadness, and people never forgot the story of her. <br><br>Because of this, many people think that healers are sad, selfless, weak people. They think that they are all dumb, and that they will eventually realize that there is no point to healing and become recluses that will never heal again. <br><br>From there, the story became exaggerated. People said that the healer was slowly losing her mind, and she realized that she had to bleed to death in order to fix every problem in the world. <br><br>And from there, the story changed more. People said that all healers slowly lose their minds, and healers that go too far are called "Eldrids". <br><br>Eldrids are healers who have lost their minds and are bleeding out too much to heal things. The jobs of the people with magic from power are largely to regulate the healers and make sure they don't bleed too much. They are largely feared by the public and sometimes even seen as demons. <br><br>So, how does your world handle mental health?
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