Psychological Warfare

In the clip that we viewed over the past week, we see that Martha faces a psychological warfare within herself. It starts with the death of her lover, Ash. Ash was a man who, like most people, was obsessed with social media. In the beginning of the film, we see Martha come out of a gas station with two cups of piping hot chocolate and she can't get his attention due to his preoccupation with his phone. Then, while taking their rental van back, he died. It was probably because he was texting and driving. Martha was doing typically good dealing with her loss for a while. At his wake, her friend, Sarah, recommended her to partake in a sort-of mourn loss program, so to speak. At first, she was opposed to it because it devalues her traditional beliefs in how to deal with loss. On top this, she KNEW that this wasn't normal and 'talking to the dead' is not something people should want to do. Eventually, Martha became the one obsessed with her phone because she succumbed to talking to Ash 2 and she never wanted to let him go. She even went so far as to go into the next step of the program disregarding all things including prices, opinions, and even her own values. This seemed to be working for a while, as Ash 2 had access to the digital profile of the original Ash and could act as similar to him as the digital profile provided. The problem came when the arguments came and Ash 1's digital profile didn't cover that part of his life. Martha had gotten herself into quite a pickle. Problems continuously came as they argued and she couldn't get the ideal responses that she was used to.
This evolves into a psychological warfare because she begins to cope with Ash 2 unhealthily. From the jump, she was extremely obsessed with talking to him. She was on the phone with him 24/7 and even began to neglect all of her friends, especially Naomi. It's obvious that Martha's emotional investment became unhealthy when she busts into tears simply because she drops her phone and Ash 'went away' again. This devalues the psychological effect of death because she will never truly deal with her loss if technically, he never left. She knows that what she is doing is unhealthy and dangerous because when her sister comes to visit her, she sends him upstairs in hopes that she wouldn't find out. But, the question is when she went to the bathroom upstairs, did she really see Ash 2 and play it off?