stalked || woosan ✓

•

Explanation chapter haha

schizophrenia
a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

People with schizophrenia might hear, see, smell, or feel things no one else does. The types of hallucinations in schizophrenia include Auditory. The person most often hears voices in their head.

San showed signs of schizophrenia in the beginning, he was detached from his friend group. when they were at the sleepover san didn't want to be there, but he still wasn't used to that strange feeling he had which caused him to stay.
_______________________________

the feeling San had of being followed?

delusion
an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder.

or
psychosis

Psychosis is characterized by an impaired relationship with reality. It's a symptom of serious mental disorders. People who are experiencing psychosis may have either hallucinations or delusions. Some people with psychosis may also experience loss of motivation and social withdrawal.

*mini note on where psychosis was shown
social withdrawal = San ignoring his friends in the later chapters. the note, wooyoung, the leaves, the sounds he heard.
________________________________
san wasn't followed at that time and when he "heard" someone step on leaves in chapter Y that was a hallucination.
________________________________

hallucinations
an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present.

the leaves didn't happen in chapter Y, nor was San followed to begin with. as time went by he and everyone else didn't know he had schizophrenia because this was normal life for him and him being a quiet person everyone thought he was just shy.

when he told his friends about it as yunho said, they watched a scary movie and san was "scared" so they took it as that. they weren't able to get much into it because san started distancing himself from them so they lacked information of what really was happening.
________________________________

the signs of schizophrenia he showed in the beginning of the story was the start of it fully developing and taking over his life getting bigger and bigger.

wooyoung wasn't real as we all saw. he was a made up character san came up with.

how wooyoung was created: when san was 4 and entered school for the first time; he didn't have friends. wooyoung was an imaginary friend he made up back then to fill in the empty gap. wooyoung disappeared as san grew up that's a normal thing usually :)

but san never made friends after wooyoung disappeared so he was by himself till yunho mingi yeosang seonghwa jongho and hongjoong came along. but again, he was detached from them as we always saw so he felt more lonely mentally.

as he got older (san and everyone is 17) his mind slowly brought wooyoung back. (when he created wooyoung wooyoung was also a child) so his mind made a grown wooyoung unknowingly. wooyoung only appeared a couple weeks after the whole panic of him being followed ( as i said in the chapter in which he appeared in)

but notice how san had a more uplifting mood when wooyoung was here? because even though he had forgotten this was his imaginary friend from years and years ago he thought of child wooyoung as a new person.