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This almost could have been [[Truth in Television]], insofar as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a real mental illness, but a character who Goes Mad From the Revelation usually is portrayed in a more generic insanity, often resembling Freak Outs, [[Heroic BSOD|catatonia]], schizophrenia or most commonly, psychotic mania with [[Laughing Mad]]. Sometimes, if you whack someone with the "insane stick" enough times, they'll get [[Bored with Insanity]].

 

 

The extreme form of a [[Freak-Out]]. May take the form of a [[Heroic BSOD]] where the thing isn't going to start working again. If the whole nature of the universe is opened to you because of your velocity, this is [[Ludicrous Speed]].

 

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* Poor, poor [[Past Sins|Nyx...]]

* In the setting of the [[Mass Effect]] fanfic ''[[Inglorious Boshtets]]'', this is what happened to many people who viewed the porno magazine ''Fornax'''s "Forbidden Issue," which featured Tali's idiot crewman Prazza performing a sanity-blastingly obscene sex act that thankfully [[You Do NOT Want to Know|remained]] [[Noodle Incident|undescribed]].

* "Need to Know", an episode of the 1980s ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', featured William Petersen investigating an insanity epidemic in a small town. It turns out a resident has discovered the meaning of life, but to hear the secret is to go crazy.

** In another episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'', a [[Those Wacky Nazis|retired Nazi general]] returns to the death camp he worked at, only to be [[Laser-Guided Karma|tortured to insanity by the ghosts of the people he murdered]]. Let's just say they showed him ''everything'' they went through while in his "care".

* When [[Battlestar Galactica|D'Anna]] learns the identities of the Final Five Cylons, it appears to be so overwhelming as to at least render her comatose. Only a borderline example, though, because she does get better.

** An alternate interpretation is that the mechanism in the Temple of Five that showed her the images also fried her brain, hence her gibbering and her [[Psychic Nosebleed|nose bleeding]]. When she ressurected, emotionally overwhelmed as she was, she was not insane.

** ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'', on the other hand, plays with this. Reading arcane texts, for example, can slowly drive you over the brink, as you'd expect exposure to the Necronomicon would. So does exposure to god-like aliens or their avatars or anything else that every natural law is struggling against. Realizing that the [[Body Horror|Doahanoids]] you [[Shoot the Dog|vaporized with a charge cannon]] ''weren't'' isn't good for your grip on reality, either. However, since the [[Japanese Media Tropes]] the game adds to the Mythos call for a certain level of idealism, society at large is [[Genre Savvy|entirely aware of these effects]], and [[There Are No Therapists|There Are Therapists]] to reduce or eliminate the dementia characters gain.

** The ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' adventure "City Beneath the Sands" actually turns this trope ''against'' the [[Eldritch Abomination]]. {{spoiler|If the heroes fail to prevent the bad guys from linking their sleeping god-alien's mind with the collective subconscious of human dreamers everywhere, it's the ''god'' that goes mad, overwhelmed by contact with millions of human psyches (which are just as disturbing to it as vice versa). Sleepers worldwide just mainline [[Nightmare Fuel]] for a night.}}

* Archaon was a templar of Sigmar who read a forbidden manuscript and went batshit after learning the truth about the Gods including his own Sigmar.

** The past three editions of the Eldar codex have all contained the following quote: