To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Do it from the heart or not at all.
Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?