this is turning a little bit into a dan goodman stan account ?? which was not my intention but i'd just like to note how perfect this line from i've been is-
-because honestly i think it encapsulates the entire musical. the whole thing, the message, the point, the intention. the doctors lie, but it's not really lying, is it, when nobody actually knows the truth of it. diana is strung along, told the medicines will work, told the ECT will work, and none of it does. natalie is told her mother will be back to normal soon, but what even is normal, when you've lived like this, on the edge of a cliff, your whole life? gabe doesn't know either, and it's hurting him too, because real or not, the character that we get to know is experiencing the same things that the rest of the family is, if not to a harder degree, because he is inside her head. and dan, all he's been doing, all he can do, is hope and try his hardest to keep going, because he's been trying his hardest to understand, but the truth of it no one really knows. mental health is not given enough attention, and even when it is, still, the professionals don't always know the truth. fuck this fucking musical for making me weep AGAIN.
