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== Web Comics ==
* Jack from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. He started off as a pretty normal guy, then he briefly got pulled into a [[Dark World]] and saw some ''very'' unpleasant things. Since then he became increasingly antisocial, paranoid (at one point he starves himself because he's convinced the Court has laced his food with nanobots to track him) and amoral (compare his treatment of the Laser Cows to his treatment of the Guard Robot). [[
* Vaarsuvius spent most of "Don't Split The Party" undergoing this in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''. {{spoiler|They ultimately recovered.}}
* Jin of ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' suffers from a bad case of this after {{spoiler|destroying the calendar machine. It was actually built at least partially for the purpose of keeping her sane.}}
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** Taken to [[Tear Jerker]] levels with people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The symptoms don't usually appear until late teenage and early adult years (16-25), so you could be mentally healthy one moment, and then the next, you gradually slip down the slippery slope towards delusions, hallucinations, mood disorders, and even states comparable to an [[Empty Shell]].
* [[Adolf Hitler]] had this towards the end of his life. A number of causes have been speculated, such as untreated syphilis or drug addiction, but nothing has been solidly proven to be ''the'' cause. Possibly, multiple factors combined in an unfortunate manner, for Hitler personally and for the rest of the world as a whole.
* John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, went from a somewhat eccentric [[Erudite Stoner]] type and a genuinely talented software engineer to an increasingly erratic and paranoid wreck (and possibly a murderer) towards the end of his life, courtesy of a combination of several subsequent business ventures going expensively sideways and his lifelong love affair with narcotics.
* Sometimes, sanity slippage is not that dramatic or serious. Several things can cause temporary reductions in your SAN score. Not having enough human contact, eating nothing but bland meals, never seeing interesting scenery, and other such things can affect your sanity.
** Sleep deprivation (such as from [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|All The Tropes]]) can also make you increasingly unhinged hinged hinged hinged hinged ahahaha...
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