You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.
I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.
When you are expending much energy on someone else's demise, it's like you weaken your psychic immune system.
I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.
Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.
As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.