YMMV / Psychosis (Matt Dymerski)

• Alternate Character Interpretation: One way to look at the ending is that John wasn't right about the entity, but that in reading his story, the reader themself has contracted the same psychosis that he has The Asylum series lends some extra credibility to this theory, with the doctor (seemingly) undergoing Sanity Slippage after his meeting with John and remembering his story. A major supporting element of this are the 'nerve filaments' mentioned in the last paragraph; is the doctor truly just a puppet of the alien entity, or are the nerves his own, transmitting his thoughts that tell him to not believe the ramblings of a madman?
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some readers have opted to ignore the ending which confirms that John was right all along about the entity, with the reasoning that the ambiguity of his (and everyone else's) situation makes for a better story.
• Tear Jerker: Despite being a genuinely terrifying story about a man's descent into madness ^note  or is it?, the ending where he pokes out his eyes, is confined to a mental hospital, and drives away his love interest with his (maybe) delusional fears is utterly heartbreaking, especially for those who have personal experience with mental illness, whether they've suffered from it or someone they love has.
  That’s the worst part, the part I almost can’t handle. The thing comes to me, masquerading as Amy. Its recreation is perfect. It sounds exactly like Amy, feels exactly like her. It even produces a reasonable facsimile of tears that it makes me feel on its lifelike cheeks. When it first dragged me here, it told me all the things I wanted to hear. It told me that she loved me, that she had always loved me, that it didn’t understand why I did this, that we could still have a life together, if only I would stop insisting that I was being deceived. It wanted me to believe… no, it needed me to believe that she was real.

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