Yeah, it was, some had more trouble than others with the hallucinations though.
Anyway, the syndrome causes a similar reaction. At the lowest levels of infection is harmless but as the levels raise the person infected begins to suffer hallucinations. At first they just overlap with reality, like seeing someone show an evil smile when they aren't smiling at all, but at the highest levels one basically sees things that aren't there and not even your other senses serve to see that it's fake because even those are completely fooled by the hallucination.
The levels raise mostly due stress, the feeling of being chased or of having someone after your life. It may begin from something minor, like discovering a secret a friend had been hiding, normally you would brush it off or get angry at not having been trusted and move on. But with the syndrome that starts to cause you to not trust your friends, questions as to why they hide it from you and what else they may be hiding raise in your head and suddenly everything they do is to keep you in the dark about something and they are out to hurt you for asking about it. It's an extreme case of paranoia and in the best scenarios it concludes with the infected person tearing their own throat apart as a result of a nervous reaction. In the worst scenarios, besides the suicide the infected person may commit murder as a result of believing their life in danger, a kill before get killed situation.
Except that there was no one out to kill them.
[He pauses and looks at Ami with a worried expression regarding how she would take the information.]
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Yeah, it was, some had more trouble than others with the hallucinations though.
Anyway, the syndrome causes a similar reaction. At the lowest levels of infection is harmless but as the levels raise the person infected begins to suffer hallucinations. At first they just overlap with reality, like seeing someone show an evil smile when they aren't smiling at all, but at the highest levels one basically sees things that aren't there and not even your other senses serve to see that it's fake because even those are completely fooled by the hallucination.
The levels raise mostly due stress, the feeling of being chased or of having someone after your life. It may begin from something minor, like discovering a secret a friend had been hiding, normally you would brush it off or get angry at not having been trusted and move on. But with the syndrome that starts to cause you to not trust your friends, questions as to why they hide it from you and what else they may be hiding raise in your head and suddenly everything they do is to keep you in the dark about something and they are out to hurt you for asking about it. It's an extreme case of paranoia and in the best scenarios it concludes with the infected person tearing their own throat apart as a result of a nervous reaction. In the worst scenarios, besides the suicide the infected person may commit murder as a result of believing their life in danger, a kill before get killed situation.
Except that there was no one out to kill them.
[He pauses and looks at Ami with a worried expression regarding how she would take the information.]