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Sahuagin posted...

you can be physically tormented to such a degree that you would beg for death, and it's exactly the same for psychological and emotional torment. just that psychologically healthy people have no experience of anything like this.

if I could reach into your mind and turn the knob for "positive emotion" all the way down to basically zero, and the knob for "negative emotion" up to 500+%, you'd be horrified. you'd do anything to get out of this emotional state, but when this is happening to you, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. it's intense suffering with no tangible remedy.

Even when it stops you keep having difficulty afterwards if you have lived through a period where all you have wished for is death with no way of obtaining it. It's extremely hard to recover from that. Even if you do, anytime bad stuff happens it's easy to fall back into a "I don't care about anything" state and it's almost impossible to live a life where nothing bad ever happens.

Of course, if you do take on responsibilities with such a history, then you made a choice and need to be responsible for it. Anyone who has lived through that and continues to be a productive member of society should be applauded, but then again you probably would never know they did.

Just because life sucks, and people can be monsters, does not mean you need to be one as well. I think most people who live through such experiences end up dead early, or end up hating everyone/everything and self destructing (in jail etc). The few who don't probably dedicate their lives to preventing others from having to live through such things.
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