I love Brandon Sanderson and his portrayal of mental health, but he loves doing this and it really irks me.

It’s the scene where one person talks about their history and mental health problems and before they can finish, another character jumps into to finish their story in order to communicate how they can both empathise and have already experienced that kind of thing. It usually goes like this:

Person 1: “All I feel is darkness, like I don’t know how to find the light-

Person 2:”-But you know it’s there.”

”Person 1 realised that Person 2 had understood it more than he had thought.”

This is not a conversation real people have and he seems to enjoy writing them occasionally, but these scenes take me out completely.