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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5843225" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>When working within the social structures they started in, yes. Well, when the parents are psychologically sound...</p><p></p><p>Let me put it this way: It is reasonable to assume that every person on the show is suffering from PTSD the likes of which humans have rarely seen.</p><p></p><p>In the real world, we send men and women trained to handle violent scenarios to war, and a significant number of them come back broken, some of them so badly that they become violent, others such that they need support and counseling to remain a functioning member of society. And these are people who at least knew that, in the end, they'd be able to return home.</p><p></p><p>The folks on Walking Dead don't have the training, they don't have that hope of home, there is no support structure, and they had pretty much every other person on Earth turned into implacable monsters that want to eat them. Daryl, the person who was arguably the best prepared for this new world, has experienced outright hallucinations under stress. Several of the folks we have seen have attempted suicide when faced with what has happened.</p><p></p><p>You want to continue thinking of them as if they should be acting in sane and rational manners, or do you want to consider them as folks who are hanging on to sanity with their fingernails, for whom sane consideration itself is an accomplishment?</p><p></p><p>This is my problem with the "armchair ZA survivalists". Everyone's talking as if people should be (and they themselves would be) immune to the psychological trauma that accompanies violent change. I find that implausible.</p><p></p><p>If the show took place, say, 5 years after the ZA, I'd agree with you. Anyone who didn't get back to rationality after a while would likely have died before 5 years had passed. But we are still just a few months post-ZA. Recovery takes time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5843225, member: 177"] When working within the social structures they started in, yes. Well, when the parents are psychologically sound... Let me put it this way: It is reasonable to assume that every person on the show is suffering from PTSD the likes of which humans have rarely seen. In the real world, we send men and women trained to handle violent scenarios to war, and a significant number of them come back broken, some of them so badly that they become violent, others such that they need support and counseling to remain a functioning member of society. And these are people who at least knew that, in the end, they'd be able to return home. The folks on Walking Dead don't have the training, they don't have that hope of home, there is no support structure, and they had pretty much every other person on Earth turned into implacable monsters that want to eat them. Daryl, the person who was arguably the best prepared for this new world, has experienced outright hallucinations under stress. Several of the folks we have seen have attempted suicide when faced with what has happened. You want to continue thinking of them as if they should be acting in sane and rational manners, or do you want to consider them as folks who are hanging on to sanity with their fingernails, for whom sane consideration itself is an accomplishment? This is my problem with the "armchair ZA survivalists". Everyone's talking as if people should be (and they themselves would be) immune to the psychological trauma that accompanies violent change. I find that implausible. If the show took place, say, 5 years after the ZA, I'd agree with you. Anyone who didn't get back to rationality after a while would likely have died before 5 years had passed. But we are still just a few months post-ZA. Recovery takes time. [/QUOTE]
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