Does it exist? Like, if a character started hallucinating or was going through some kind of mania, would other characters classify it as schizophrenia, or would it automatically default to “old gods did it teehee”? I know depression exists because Velen explained that Anduin wasn’t eating, drinking, or getting much sleep after his father died. Although such things can also be related to anxiety.
Not asking this because “muh representation” or anything like that. I just think it’s an interesting topic.
All we see of Azeroth is everything that has to do with warfare. I’m sure it exists. Teldrassil was traumatic. This is quite a sensitive subject, and I don’t want this to become another “LGBT represenation” topic.
You have to remember you’re talking about a planet where it’s inhabitance went “holy hell is that Sargeras stabbing the planet? Meh, must be Tuesday.” So in a world where everyone has PTSD then everyone is “normal” I’m assuming.
Did you forget about Medivh? In all forms of lore (books, comics, game, and the movie) he was characterized and deemed and viewed by others as being insane, having hallucinations, mania, etc… even he thought this himself…
however we all know the core reason was that he was possessed by the avatar of sargeras, but regardless of this, he was regarded as being mentally unstable by everyone around him, including by himself…
I don’t trust the writers to handle those issues properly nowadays.
They’d probably have the nuance of a brick through a window about it and muck it up entirely.
Since mental illness is almost always just what everyone has but TOO MUCH of it, I’d say that there is obviously mental illness in WoW. We run across people doing fairly inexplicable things quite often. We’ve seen characters consumed by vengeance in destructive ways. We’ve seen religious mania. We’ve seen people so depressed in Westfall that they can’t get off their butts and kill a pig for dinner. . .
You think we are actually god killing murder hobos? We got rolled by a lvl 2 boar in the starting area and the last 15 years have been a fear induced hallucination.
The Holy Priest Artifact Weapon in Legion is described as healing mental as well as physical wounds.
T’uure is one of the purest physical embodiments of the Light in existence. The dynamic energies that flow through this artifact can heal wounds both physical and mental. They can inspire hope in times of overwhelming darkness, and fortify timid hearts with courage.
This topic should just be not spoken on the wow forum. Total idiocy, I mean the people who obviously don’t understand what it’s like to have a mental illness
Yeah… I can’t even stand it when movies portray mental illness issues.
Wasn’t there a dust up lately over a movie someone made that… poorly displayed various mental illnesses?
We definitely don’t need to go sprinting into a minefield when it should be completely avoided.