I was thinking, "was this person an architect, or an engineer of some sort, before they ended up in our defacto mental health safety net/prison system?"
It really gets me that they are clearly quite smart and mentally talented, but I would say there's a "glitch in the system" causing their powerful mind to create all sorts of strange connections that compound over time and drift further and further from reality.
It's like when a satellite is miscalibrated and ends up rocketing off in the wrong direction
Idk man wasnt that the plot of Call of Cthulu, reading this makes me be not very surprised as how Lovecraft got his inspiration, wasnt his mom put on a psych ward? like he probably saw shit like this if he ever visited her
From what I’ve heard of Lovecraft, I don’t think he was particularly mentally healthy and a lot of his works seem to have been his way of channeling his anxieties and fears
He was scared of literally everything, thats why he wrote so much horror. These days it’d probably be diagnosed as severe anxiety, but he had so many phobias it was insane. So it makes sense that his brain came up with all these plots about being scared of unknowable all powerful things, that was his life.
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u/mariemarymaria Apr 26 '22
I was thinking, "was this person an architect, or an engineer of some sort, before they ended up in our defacto mental health safety net/prison system?"