Dr. Eric Bender

That's just, it's not ethical if we bring that back in, but also it's just, who knows what's going on.

These individuals have not existed and they're great teaching tools.

And it's a great way to start conversation about mental health.

Now, when I first started, again, people weren't necessarily open to this.

There were some major comic book characters that colleagues and I looked at, and some of the people behind the characters were like, why are you doing this to us?

Almost thinking we were taking away millions of dollars because we were criticizing.

That's not the case at all.

You can actually have more psychologically deep characters, and they're even more appealing to your audience.

So people weren't always open to it.

Why weren't they open to it?

I think they were afraid of what would happen to our characters.

If we have to change this, if these guys, these psychiatrists, these doctors, these whatever, are telling people this about the character, what if we change them?

But there's been a huge change over time.

I mean, now I get calls about, hey, can you add psychological depth to our characters?

We don't want to do this

show, video game in the wrong way.

We don't want to do anything that's stigmatizing.

What makes somebody tick?

Why do they have this kind of reaction with the world around them, to the world around them?

How do they interact with people?