Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160228194417/@comment-26205772-20160326084457

Well, I assume stuff like that works a lot differently in fiction than it does in media. Reasons for "losing one's sanity" are really, really variable. If you take out mundane phenomena driving people off the edge, you have someone like the Ice King, who lost his insanity from an artifact within the show's context. That's something a little therapy isn't going to fix. Hell, really, a little therapy isn't realisitically going to fix anything. That's where outright rehabilitation comes in, and it can become hard to rehabilitate someone once, say, everything they know and love has been taken from them and they've also received brain damage on top of that.