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* Nancy spends nearly half of ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'' in a state of deep distress, which isn't surprising considering she already has trauma from being wrongly accused of killing her children and is now going through the exact same thing again, [[spoiler:not to mention having been a victim of domestic abuse]]. She slowly starts [[SanityStrengthening getting better]] after her family and friends demonstrate they're on her side, encouraging her to finally face and open up about her trauma. By the climax, she's much more stable and ready to fight tooth and nail to bring her kids home safe.
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* In the backstory to ''Literature/FunnyBusiness'', after Jeannette grows old enough to understand that she hurt people by abusing her powers, [[spoiler:she essentially loses the ability to ever be happy again]]. Of course, her parents noticed her sudden change in behavior but did not know of its cause, and once they started to worry about her mental health, she inflicted them with LaserGuidedAmnesia and pretends to be a CheerfulChild from then on, so that nobody would worry about her. She keeps the {{Masquerade}} up right up to the present time of the story.
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* The human protagonist in ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/wiki/series/humans_dont_make_good_pets Humans Don't Make Good Pets]]'' suffers a breakdown after one of the soldiers he was fighting mourns another he killed. He realizes that up until that point, he'd killed hundreds of aliens without knowing who he was fighting or why.
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* ''Literature/{{Sapphire}}'': [[spoiler:When Boris kills Ivanka. He even tries to shoot himself, but backs down before pulling the trigger.]]
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* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheTemplar'': Jeremy gets one after [[spoiler:shooting and killing someone for the first time. It doesn't help that it was a head shot, meaning the guy's brains exploded everywhere.]]
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* Literature/{{Starwalker}} (a.k.a. Starry) experiences this when the implications of the StableTimeLoop act as a LogicBomb.
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* Vatsy, from the dark-humor webstory ''Literature/VatsyAndBruno'', suffers one of these shortly after receiving the following rejection letter:
-->To whom it may concern: We do not regret to inform you that this submission is unusable, unintelligent and frequently illegible. We do not regret that your mental seepage, poured in such an ungainly fashion on your half-cent-per-thousand-sheet paper, will not be gracing this or any future publication of the Writer's Guild World Newsletter. We do not regret that you will -- most probably -- die alone, penniless, unloved and foul-smelling. We do, however, regret that we were exposed -- even through this protective screen of incomprehensibility -- to this most unspeakable body of work. We regret that our sanity and our lives can never be whole again after even a brief perusal of your first page. We regret that the stink of hideous purple prose and suspiciously fecal ink will forever saturate our desk space. Most of all, we regret that you had slithered, like a diseased rat infiltrating an unsuspecting granary, into this world on whatever dark day you were born (from the art inherent in your prose, we would estimate about a year ago.) If we ever see the name 'Vatsy' -- or that name spelled differently, or any name with a superficial resemblance, or anything that even reminds us of you -- on any volume, essay, poem, or bill that ever crosses our threshold, we will ensure that you will not survive the night that follows. Wishing you well, The Writer's Guild.
-->To whom it may concern: We do not regret to inform you that this submission is unusable, unintelligent and frequently illegible. We do not regret that your mental seepage, poured in such an ungainly fashion on your half-cent-per-thousand-sheet paper, will not be gracing this or any future publication of the Writer's Guild World Newsletter. We do not regret that you will -- most probably -- die alone, penniless, unloved and foul-smelling. We do, however, regret that we were exposed -- even through this protective screen of incomprehensibility -- to this most unspeakable body of work. We regret that our sanity and our lives can never be whole again after even a brief perusal of your first page. We regret that the stink of hideous purple prose and suspiciously fecal ink will forever saturate our desk space. Most of all, we regret that you had slithered, like a diseased rat infiltrating an unsuspecting granary, into this world on whatever dark day you were born (from the art inherent in your prose, we would estimate about a year ago.) If we ever see the name 'Vatsy' -- or that name spelled differently, or any name with a superficial resemblance, or anything that even reminds us of you -- on any volume, essay, poem, or bill that ever crosses our threshold, we will ensure that you will not survive the night that follows. Wishing you well, The Writer's Guild.
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* Oh, ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', where would you be without these?
** In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy", Tennyo is attacked by ghosts from her past as The Star Stalker and she finally remembers. She remembers being a soulless, heartless monster capable of wiping out entire civilizations in her efforts to fight {{EldritchAbomination}}s. She ends up nearly catatonic. For days.
** After his initial manifestation, one of the things that kept Phase going was the belief that his intersexed [[GenderBender transformation]] was due a genetic effect called 'Gross Structural Dystrophy'. When he finds that it is actually an expression of his Exemplar trait -- a superpower that (supposedly) takes it's cues from the mutant' subconscious desires and fears -- he spends the next week in a daze, convinced that he'd brought the whole things down upon himself.
** Circuit Breaker goes through a TraumaCongaLine culminating with her [[spoiler: seeing her closest friend brutally murdered right in front of her]]. She goes through a BSOD so severe that she ends up in ARC Red for over a month of intensive psychotherapy.
** Both Fey and Kodiak experience [[spoiler: the partial destruction of their own souls]] during the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind to free Cavalier and Skybolt from the demons Hekate had placed in their minds to keep them from recovering. Kodiak is only mildly shaken, but Fey goes into a state of despair lasting weeks.
** Generator has had more than one, usually with the result that she went into an UnstoppableRage. The worst of these was targeted at [[spoiler: [[GroinAttack her own male genitals]], which she repeatedly slashed at as they kept regenerating, until she finally passed out from blood loss]].
** [[MadScientist Jobe]] goes on a rampage after learning her father had disowned her, though whether that should be classified as a VillainousBreakdown instead is a matter of perspective.
** In "Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy", Tennyo is attacked by ghosts from her past as The Star Stalker and she finally remembers. She remembers being a soulless, heartless monster capable of wiping out entire civilizations in her efforts to fight {{EldritchAbomination}}s. She ends up nearly catatonic. For days.
** After his initial manifestation, one of the things that kept Phase going was the belief that his intersexed [[GenderBender transformation]] was due a genetic effect called 'Gross Structural Dystrophy'. When he finds that it is actually an expression of his Exemplar trait -- a superpower that (supposedly) takes it's cues from the mutant' subconscious desires and fears -- he spends the next week in a daze, convinced that he'd brought the whole things down upon himself.
** Circuit Breaker goes through a TraumaCongaLine culminating with her [[spoiler: seeing her closest friend brutally murdered right in front of her]]. She goes through a BSOD so severe that she ends up in ARC Red for over a month of intensive psychotherapy.
** Both Fey and Kodiak experience [[spoiler: the partial destruction of their own souls]] during the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind to free Cavalier and Skybolt from the demons Hekate had placed in their minds to keep them from recovering. Kodiak is only mildly shaken, but Fey goes into a state of despair lasting weeks.
** Generator has had more than one, usually with the result that she went into an UnstoppableRage. The worst of these was targeted at [[spoiler: [[GroinAttack her own male genitals]], which she repeatedly slashed at as they kept regenerating, until she finally passed out from blood loss]].
** [[MadScientist Jobe]] goes on a rampage after learning her father had disowned her, though whether that should be classified as a VillainousBreakdown instead is a matter of perspective.
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* Happens to Eidolon in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' when [[spoiler: Scion]] tells him that [[spoiler: he subconsciously created the Endbringers, making him indirectly responsible for tens of millions of deaths.]] It turns out that [[spoiler: Scion]] was actually [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] [[spoiler: specifically so that Eidolon would drop his guard and let Scion kill him]].
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* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'': What does Marinell do when he finds out Proteus has his girlfriend? Storm the castle and rescue her? Devise a plan to secretly steal her away? Challenge Proetus to a duel? Nope... he lies on his bed, weeps, and can't eat or sleep until his mother Cymodoce steps in and saves the girl.
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** He has a minor one in ''Literature/FoolMoon'' as well, when he basically shuts down for a little while due to being completely worn out and despairing because [[spoiler:Murphy no longer trusts him and has arrested him for withholding information in a murder investigation, when he had just begun to regain her trust after losing it in ''Literature/StormFront'']].
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** He has a minor one in ''Literature/FoolMoon'' as well, when he basically shuts down for a little while due to being completely worn out and despairing because [[spoiler:Murphy no longer trusts him and has arrested him for withholding information in a murder investigation, when he had just begun to regain her trust after losing it in ''Literature/StormFront'']].''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}'']].
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** Bryce's reaction after Danika's murder and fighting the kristallos demon.
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** Bryce's Byrce Quinlan has two:
*** Her reaction afterDanika's murder Danika and the Pack of Devils' murders and fighting the kristallos demon.demon.
*** Also after discovering that Hunt is the synth buyer she's been tracking.
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*** Also after discovering that Hunt is the synth buyer she's been tracking.
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** Bryce's reaction after Danika's murder and fighting the kristallos demon.
** This happens to Hunt every time he's forced to kill someone for Micah.
** Bryce's reaction after Danika's murder and fighting the kristallos demon.
** This happens to Hunt every time he's forced to kill someone for Micah.
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** Kaladin also suffers this a couple of times. In in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'', it happens after being made into a bridge man, basically a slave job that is also a death sentence. [[spoiler: Syl]] is finally able to pull him out of it [[ItMakesSenseInContext by giving him some poisonous leaves]]. Later in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' he suffers two more, or arguably a single extended one. When two different groups he has befriended start killing each other during [[spoiler: storming the place in Kholinar]] ge shuts down as the slaughter happens around him and has to be dragged away. He only marginally recovers during the several day trip through [[spoiler: Shadesmar]]. When the group is trying to [[spoiler: get back to the physical realm at the Oath Gate, Syl is encourages him to say the next Oath, but he shuts down again, unable to find the Words. He recovers quickly, however, when Dalinar is able to provide a way back for them]].
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** Kaladin also suffers this a couple of times. In in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'', it happens after being made into a bridge man, basically a slave job that is also a death sentence. [[spoiler: Syl]] is finally able to pull him out of it [[ItMakesSenseInContext by giving him some poisonous leaves]]. Later in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' he suffers two more, or arguably a single extended one. When two different groups he has befriended start killing each other during [[spoiler: storming the place in Kholinar]] ge shuts down as the slaughter happens around him and has to be dragged away. He only marginally recovers during the several day trip through [[spoiler: Shadesmar]]. When the group is trying to [[spoiler: get back to the physical realm at the Oath Gate, Syl is encourages him to say the next Oath, but he shuts down again, unable to find the Words. He recovers quickly, however, when Dalinar is able to provide a way back for them]].
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** Kaladin also suffers this a couple of times. In in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''it happens after being made into a bridge man, basically a slave job that is also a death sentence. [[spoiler: Syl]] is finally able to pull him out of it [[ItMakesSenseInContext by giving him some poisonous leaves]]. Later in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' he suffers two more, or arguably a single extended one. When two different groups he has befriended start killing each other during [[spoiler: storming the place in Kholinar]] ge shuts down as the slaughter happens around him and has to be dragged away. He only marginally recovers during the several day trip through [[spoiler: Shadesmar]]. When the group is trying to [[spoiler: get back to the physical realm at the Oath Gate, Syl is encourages him to say the next Oath, but he shuts down again, unable to find the Words. He recovers quickly, however, when Dalinar is able to provide a way back for them]].
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** Kaladin also suffers this a couple of times. In in ''Literature/TheWayOfKings''it ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'', it happens after being made into a bridge man, basically a slave job that is also a death sentence. [[spoiler: Syl]] is finally able to pull him out of it [[ItMakesSenseInContext by giving him some poisonous leaves]]. Later in ''Literature/{{Oathbringer}}'' he suffers two more, or arguably a single extended one. When two different groups he has befriended start killing each other during [[spoiler: storming the place in Kholinar]] ge shuts down as the slaughter happens around him and has to be dragged away. He only marginally recovers during the several day trip through [[spoiler: Shadesmar]]. When the group is trying to [[spoiler: get back to the physical realm at the Oath Gate, Syl is encourages him to say the next Oath, but he shuts down again, unable to find the Words. He recovers quickly, however, when Dalinar is able to provide a way back for them]].
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* ''Literature/{{Inkdeath}}'': Author Fenoglio spends almost the entire book being depressed and cynical because he no longer controls what happens in the world he created, and it's going to the [[UnusualEuphemism H-word]].
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* ''Literature/{{Inkdeath}}'': ''Literature/TheInkworldTrilogy'': Author Fenoglio spends almost the entire book entirety of ''Inkdeath'' being depressed and cynical because he no longer controls what happens in the world he created, and it's going to the [[UnusualEuphemism H-word]].
