13 Reasons Why it takes a number of important issues in its final season, but one of the main issues is a continuation of a story we have been following since season one: the Clay of the deterioration of mental health. Despite the fact that his health takes a big turn for the worse this season, there have been suggestions that he suffers from anxiety of the first season, when his parents ask him if he wants to go back to your medication after the death of Hannah Baker. They are worried that their nightmares may come back and offer you the option to speak with someone who is not a parent of the family: in this case, a therapist.
In season two, the Clay begins to have visions of Ana, interrupting his attempts at intimacy with the then-girlfriend of Skye. It could be seen as distressing psychosis or obsession, but the extreme pain it can also distort the way you think. Hallucinations of dead loved ones is a common phenomenoneven for those without a mental illness, and also with those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. It can be a way the mind deals with an unexpected and overwhelming loss. Whatever the problem, it is clear, then, that the Clay deal with more generalized anxiety.
Season three features of an episode literally titled, “There are a Number of Problems With Clay Jensen,” but we don’t have concrete answers about your exact issues. In the course of the season, we see it cycle through a range of extreme emotions, including anger, but their anxiety is manifested mainly in the relentless desire to protect his friends after Bryce’s murder at the cost of his own sanity.
The fourth and last season, the Clay has a complete mental breakdown as a result of a combination of troubling factors. Not only that usually have intense nightmares with the now deceased Bryce and Monty, he hallucinates during his waking hours. Receives phone calls in which the caller claims to know the truth about Monty and her need to find the identity of the caller isolates of Ani and his friends. He is suspended from school after appearing in the Valentine’s Day dance with a knife, and when he was allowed to return, he experiences feelings of paranoia, thinking people are talking about him when they are not.
“Go back to school after a suspension for two weeks was like coming back from the war”, she says to her therapist, Dr. Ellman. These therapy sessions we finally provide some answers about what is going on with the Clay. He confirms that he is suffering from anxiety and trying not to feel anxious just makes things worse. However, it is not until later in the season that we learned the full extent of the Clay of the diagnosis.
Following the school’s active shooter drill, Clay cries on the Main Bolan and steals a gun from an armed guard. He was placed on a stretcher, and when the next episode starts, he is locked up in a hospital, while your therapist explains to his parents that there was a malfunction of some kind. The break is put into perspective at the end of episode eight, “Acceptance/Rejection,” when the Clay is confronted with footage of themselves the fire of the Main scene, Bolan car. He has no memory of doing so until this time, when the memory and others come flooding into your consciousness. Suddenly, he realizes that he is the one who spray-painted “Monty is framed” in the school, locked Jessica and the members of the football team during the seniors ‘ camping trip, and destroyed the school security cameras.
Dr. Ellman confirms that the Clay is to deal with the dissociation, which, according to the Mental Health of the united states, is a “mental process that causes a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memory and sense of identity.” Despite the fact that Dr. Ellman does not specifically call, it seems that the Clay has a form of the disease called amnesia psychogenic, that the inability to recall personally significant memories. Your condition is likely to be triggered by all the personal trauma and loss has been resolved through the seasons.
By the series finale, Clay comes clean to their classmates about the suffering of anxiety and depression”, but mostly anxiety” — in his graduation speech. “No matter what happens, keep moving”, he says, “to Get through it. Choose to live in. Because even on the worst of days, there are people who love you.” While he is talking to his peers, is clear that really speaks to himself, ensuring that he can live through his anxiety and depression.
If you or someone you know would like more information on any of the mental health problems that are discussed here or at the fair, visit Substance abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National helpline or call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline for more help and resources.
— Additional reporting by Maggie Panos
