[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

These were the first sweets in his life. The new vivid sensation created a short-term effect of euphoria. But the more we consume food, books, sports, everything, the more our taste dulls and the more difficult it is to get the initial effect from it. The macaroni is delicious and worthy of being turned into Gochizo, but not all that unique to Shouma's sweet tooth. That's why it didn't have the same effect. Plus, it's quite possible that the creation of Bitter Gavv also had a negative effect on Shouma.

The first sweets in his life? Vivid sensation? Short-term effect of euphoria? Seriously? What about the vivid sensation of seeing his mom being brutally murdered in a cold-blooded manner right in front of his two eyes only several hours before? His mom was brutally murdered right in front of him, and his nervous system still had neural connections for euphoria from eating candies?

PTSD and shell-shock are what happen to a person who experienced intense level of distress, very often due to seeing and or being subjected to intense abuse, violence, and other forms of severe traumatic experience, especially life-threatening violence and physical abuse. Have you seen people with PTSD? Have you seen videos of war veterans with shell-shock? When presented with pleasure, they usually only respond with a brief moment of little smile at most, and then return to depression 95% of the time. Some war veterans with shell-shock are even showing signs of disturbing behavior similar to schizophrenia. Unless they've received intensive, very long-term psychotherapy, people with PTSD have difficulty experiencing pleasure and happiness, let alone euphoria. It's pretty much the opposite: People with PTSD have severe difficulty in enjoying simple things, let alone enjoying things that they previously really enjoyed.

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Zolda

The first sweets in his life? Vivid sensation? Short-term effect of euphoria? Seriously? What about the vivid sensation of seeing his mom being brutally murdered in a cold-blooded manner right in front of his two eyes only several hours before? His mom was brutally murdered right in front of him, and his nervous system still had neural connections for euphoria from eating candies?

PTSD and shell-shock are what happen to a person who experienced intense level of distress, very often due to seeing and or being subjected to intense abuse, violence, and other forms of severe traumatic experience, especially life-threatening violence and physical abuse. Have you seen people with PTSD? Have you seen videos of war veterans with shell-shock? When presented with pleasure, they usually only respond with a brief moment of little smile at most, and then return to depression 95% of the time. Some war veterans with shell-shock are even showing signs of disturbing behavior similar to schizophrenia. Unless they've received intensive, very long-term psychotherapy, people with PTSD have difficulty experiencing pleasure and happiness, let alone euphoria. It's pretty much the opposite: People with PTSD have severe difficulty in enjoying simple things, let alone enjoying things that they previously really enjoyed.

But Shouma doesn`t give birth to Gochizo within 12 hours. "Brief moment of little smile" is enough to get first minions. Regarding PTSD and veterans, I seem to live in a country that is at war on its territory. And I can say that all people are different. Someone hasn?t left the basement for 10 years, and someone during an air raid is more worried about the lack of public transport and huge prices than about the possibility of death due to a drone or missile. And by the way, I can confidently say that during an air raid, fewer and fewer people are hiding in shelters, although the likelihood of death has not changed much. So a person gets used to everything. With large individual exceptions, of course, but still.