Status Updates From The Walking Dead Psychology...

Positive psychology - not what’s “wrong” with a person struggling with mental illness, but a focus on the good traits that can help them heal and thrive in their lives.

Solastalgia - a kind of existential suffering, as opposed to nostalgia.

“The zombie genre as a whole excites us biologically & awakens an unconscious longing. The walkers clear away what distracts us & exposes not only who we are now but who we might like to become.”
Apocalypse: “a word generally meaning ‘a revelation,’ derived from the Greek ‘apokalypsis’ (“to take the covering away.”)

“We welcome the simplicity of decluttered lives and a clear and present danger we can confront physically. Walkers offer something tangible we can kill.”

“I think there has been a sense from 9/11 on that the system is breaking down, and we want to know what the end game is psychologically…what all this is leading to.”

“Apocalyptic narratives offer the fantasy of a worldwide do-over. With most of the world’s population and technology out of the way, life becomes more savage but also simpler in many ways.”