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The Nurse has PTSD or Schizophrenia? (Explain your opinion in detail please)

Antimon
Antimon Member Posts: 85
in Lore

So I've been having an argument with Orion about the Nurse having schizophrenia or PTSD. I strongly believe she has PTSD from what the devs have written in her Lore, but he thinks she has schizophrenia. I'd like to know the community's opinion on this subject.

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  • hahadrillgobrrr
    hahadrillgobrrr Member Posts: 953

    Maybe she did meth?

  • Vox_Nocturne
    Vox_Nocturne Member Posts: 545

    Honestly, it would be hard to decipher between the two, based on what little information there is about her.

    She has some schizophrenic characteristics, including delusions (her idea of purification), and the fact that it is caused by a mixture of both genetic and environmental causes over a long period of time. She has certainly the environmental side, especially with how long she worked there and her husband passing. Yet there is no evidence of genetics and a common misconception about schizophrenia is that it makes people violent: Schizophrenia does not cause someone to be violent. Also, she would become withdrawn from human contact and her personal hygiene would be affected - there is no evidence to back this. However, this does not mean she couldn't work, as schizophrenics are perfectly capable of working.

    PTSD can give an increased risk in violence but there are many times that has never happened. She has had a very traumatic past, and it is important to note that those ideas of purification could be from a schizophrenic delusion, but also from someone being pushed to the edge of sanity. They would also have accompanying mental conditions, such as depression or anxiety. Reliving her incidents over and over again in her head is very much PTSD.

    Overall, if one of the two had to be chosen, it would most likely be PTSD. Mild delusions are also experienced in PTSD, as well as schizophrenia. However, both conditions can co-exist, and putting Sally down to just one condition with so little information would be unjust for the extremely complex situation she found herself in. It's most probable that she has a few conditions gathered from her history of trauma. We'd need much more information for a proper diagnosis.

  • abc_9000
    abc_9000 Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 137

    i think nurse has ptsd because she has flashbacks of her past life when she was a nurse and she was stress when the job got to her

  • f1uffykins
    f1uffykins Member Posts: 77

    It may be a mixture of both, she has flashbacks to show her past haunts her to help the PTSD but also she has something telling her that the only way to cure these patients was to kill them and for that it supports schizophrenia