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<blockquote data-quote="Atticus_of_Amber" data-source="post: 315111" data-attributes="member: 2683">Post Traumatic StressJust an idea off the top of my head...In Martin Seligman's book What You Can Change and What You Can't&nbsp; he presents a chillingingly persuasuve case for whay post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as opposed to depression and anxiety, can't be cured.His argument seems to be that many of us know or suspect, in a rational, intellectual sense, that life is precarious, that all that we love and care about, all that gives our lives meaning and makes life worth living, could be snuffed out at any instant. Moreover, those of us who are agnostic or athiest (or those who doubt their faith) know, at a rational level, that without thesethings our lives can become meaningless.However, people with PTSD don't just know this, they feel it, every moment. Some horrible event irrefutably proved to them the futility of caring about anything. Perhaps one minute they were kissing the love of their life and the next all they held in their arms was a corpse; perhaps they saw their child die in front of them; perhpas they watched a civilised town, full of people they had known and liked all their lives, transform in a matter of days into a slaughter house of &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot;. Seligmans' theory is seems to be that people with PTSD are incurable because they have &quot;seen the Truth&quot;. Stripped of the ordinary, everyday illusions of security, they simply can't lead normal lives.I see Cthulu sanity loss as like that. Imagine you discovered that not only were you an alien accident with respect to the universe; but that YOU were wrong and the Mythos creatures were the ones with a right to exist? Like PTSD, recovery would only come with fooling yourself that your revelations were wrong...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Atticus_of_Amber, post: 315111, member: 2683"] [b]Post Traumatic Stress[/b] Just an idea off the top of my head... In Martin Seligman's book [I]What You Can Change and What You Can't[/I] he presents a chillingingly persuasuve case for whay post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as opposed to depression and anxiety, [B]can't[/B] be cured. His argument seems to be that many of us know or suspect, in a rational, intellectual sense, that life is precarious, that all that we love and care about, all that gives our lives meaning and makes life worth living, could be snuffed out at any instant. Moreover, those of us who are agnostic or athiest (or those who doubt their faith) know, at a rational level, that without thesethings our lives can become meaningless. However, people with PTSD don't just [I]know[/I] this, they feel it, every moment. Some horrible event irrefutably proved to them the futility of caring about anything. Perhaps one minute they were kissing the love of their life and the next all they held in their arms was a corpse; perhaps they saw their child die in front of them; perhpas they watched a civilised town, full of people they had known and liked all their lives, transform in a matter of days into a slaughter house of "ethnic cleansing". Seligmans' theory is seems to be that people with PTSD are incurable because they have "[I]seen the Truth[/I]". Stripped of the ordinary, everyday illusions of security, they simply can't lead normal lives. I see Cthulu sanity loss as like that. Imagine you discovered that not only were you an alien accident with respect to the universe; but that YOU were wrong and the Mythos creatures were the ones with a right to exist? Like PTSD, recovery would only come with fooling yourself that your revelations were wrong... [/QUOTE]

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