Man, this thread moves so fast! o.O
Re: Oghren -- Wait, wtf?? He can die? In camp? I never knew this! O.o
Re: PTSD -- Most ofwhat Imay have to add about this has already been brought up, but here's some 2cents anyway -- Ihave PTSD from sexual abuse as a child. My husband has PTSD from his work in the USMC. My brother-in-law also has PTSD from deployments. So it's something I'm very familiar with from different angles. All of us are on medication (low dosages, thank goodness and nothing "heavy") to aid with anxiety which, for us, seems to be the common defining "symptom" of our struggles, though in my case I also naturally have a chemical predisposition for anxiety -- it's biological as well as symptomatic of actual life experiences. Anyhoo! We are all three of us fulluy functioning members of society, with work, families, etc. Do we struggle? Sure, each of us in different ways. But with therapy and - if/as needed - medication I'm pleased to say we're doing very well.
The thing is, "PTSD" has become something of a catch-all phrase thrown around kind of willy-nilly by laypersons these days. When in truth it manifests differently for each individual and can be caused by a myriad of things. Some treatments are more effective than others for each individual. Some suffer far more severe forms than others, depending on things like: How soon they recieved treatment;physical as well as mental/emotional damage from the causing event; support systems; personal awareness/acknowledgement... it's complex, to say the least.
Ultimately no one can just snap a finger and cure you with their love, their pills, their treatments plans, their double-fudge brownies.... though, you know, love and brownies always helps
BUT! Love and support and acceptance definitely helps, no doubt about it. Myself and my husband are in full agreement that neither of us would be in the healthy state of mind/body/heart/soul that we are blessed to be if it wasn't for finding each other, cheesy as that bloody well sounds!
To bring this round to Cullen talk: I, personally, hope that if he is a companion, the devs didn't try to impose a true case of still-struggling PTSD on Cullen or, well, anyone. Because, frankly, these games don't devote the level of character detail and in-depth growth that real life allows or a novel can expound on, etc. Which, for me, ultimately leaves the attempt feeling shallow, stereotyped and... ill-timed/ill-advised. I'm not saying that Cullens past shouldn't be brought up in-game: of course it should! But I hope - especially if he IS romanceable - that he's at a point within himself that he's healed enough to be recovered. When I say "recovered" I don't mean "healed" -- frankly, one is never "healed" from most forms of trauma that severe. You move on, you learn to deal with it, you learn and live and - if you're lucky - you become better within yourself, not because of the event but because of all it takes to survive in a healthful manner. That is a mentality that can give itself over to being ready for the kind of - let's face it - quick paced, not-all-that-much-delved-into romance that these games usually afford "on screen" [barring whatever fabulous head-canon we come up with] .... I'd be happy to play out my Inquisitor connecting with a Cullen at that point in his life. Utterly broken and still in a totally head-****** place? Nooooot so much.
er... that rambled on WAY LONGER than I intended. And now the baby is demanding sustenance so I must flee again to the shadows of off-line/lurkdom.
LIKE.
Retour en haut
'd me with the same picture. 
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Look at the earrings. 
well, I'm still holding out hope for a great part as an important/recurring/hopefully-romanceable NPC!
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