Negativity

Negativity is a mission in Grand Theft Auto V. This mission is the first phone session between Michael De Santa and Isiah Friedlander.

Overview
Negativity is unlocked after the mission Mr. Richards, Dr. Friedlander will send a text message to Michael saying that he haven't heard anything from him and ask if he doesn't want to do a phone session. The mission can be completed at any time by calling Dr. Friedlander and will be available until Derailed.

Description
Isiah will ask how Michael is, to with Michael respond that things have been terrible for him. Dr. Friedlander ask if he have been "acting out" again and Michael's response will depende of the last mission that the player did before the session:
 * Mr. Richards - Michael says that his life have been awful and that he are making some bad decisions, he mentions his family leaving him and that they don't even take his phonecalls. He also reveals that he met Solomon Richards and that they are working together and now he is a movie producer. Dr. Friedlander says that he is glad things have been looking up, but he also says that Michael should not look for validation outside of himself, he says that validation isn't a label.

Isiah then ask if Michael had any other violent outbursts, Michael response will depend of the player's actions in the game, sometimes Michael will say that he feels like two different people and that he doesn't like neither of then, he can also say that he hurts other people without thinking and then feel bad about what he did, and other times he might say that he killed someone on the way to the clinic and that he is a sick hipocrite. Regardless of what Michael will say, Friedlander will give an advice that the player can accept or reject.
 * Reject advice - Michael will say that it's easy for Isiah to judge and that he had a tough childhood.
 * Accept advice - Michael will say that there's a part of him that he just can't seem to control.

Friedlander then asks Michael about his sexual behavior, again Michael response depends on the player's actions, he may say that he had throughts but didn't had any problem or he may say that he have been an good boy and didn't had any problem at all.

The hone session continues with Michael saying that he is kind of doing better, to with Isiah says that therapy can really help him and because of this he should be plased with what he is doing. Isiah then says that he needs to stop the session and that phone session are a little more expensive, but very fulfilling.

The mission ends and Michael loses $1,500 dollars to pay for the phone session.

Trivia

 * The name of this mission can only be seem if the player complete the phone session with the autosave enabled or save the game manually after the session ends. Then go to the load game option in the pause menu and the name of the mission will be displayed in the last save.
 * The name of this mission, probably comes from the beginning of the session, when Michael looks very pessimistic about the recent events of his life.

Video
The phone session starts at 13:58