006: Group Introductions and AMAs - Second Round

[tarnishedavenger]

[Armstrong hates to do this after so many people have introduced themselves in locked channels, but they at least need to put on a show of meeting for Jorgmund's sake.]

So, we've got a few new people here since the last time we did something like this. Time to get introductions done and over with. Just list your name, powers, if any, relevant facts, and, if you feel like it, answer reasonable questions that people have. We'll be able to function together more effectively if we know more about each other. Keep it sensible and try not to wheedle out any dark secrets.

Or, you know, old people can tell people why Taco Tuesday is the best.

Comments

[greyaria]

Post-traumatic stress disorder. It's a common reaction in soldiers.

[greyerrant]

Can you explain how it manifests?

[ I mean you could basically ask yourself Garviel, not that you know how PTSD works. ]

[greyaria]

Hmm, it's got quite a few symptoms, but they fall into categories--flashbacks and other disturbing recollections, including nightmares, depression and emotional numbness, especially survivor guilt, and increased arousal such as insomnia, irritability, or hypervigiliance.

[greyerrant]

Do you... see people? People that are dead, I mean.

[greyaria]

Mmm, hallucinations aren't a common symptom, but they can pop up in cases where the patient experiences a lot of dissociative episodes.

[She has some suspicions about whom "the patient" might be.]

[greyerrant]

I see. How does one treat it? [ I mean aside from letting them garden or fight through it or sending them to the company chaplain.]

[greyaria]

The standard treatment is neural remapping, but if that's not available, [idk some space future drug] and cognitive behavioral therapy.

[greyerrant]

We use hypno-indoctrination to protect against this, I believe, and sessions with our chaplains.

[ Which is way not sufficient.]