There isn't a significant difference between the way a person who is catastrophizing is treated by psychiatry, and the way a person with reasonable concerns about their situation is treated.

There isn't a significant difference between the way a liar is treated by psychiatry, and the way someone who is telling the truth is treated by psychiatry.

There isn't a significant difference between the way someone who is having a disproportionately intense reaction to something is treated by psychiatry, and the way someone who is having a reasonable, common, and/or expected reaction to a difficult situation is treated.

And I think that’s because, up until that point, they didn’t see variants or the people on those “inferior“ timelines as equal beings to themselves.

They dehumanised them.

They didn’t care about the Variants dying, because for them they‘re just the left overs of a fucked up timeline. And their job is to remove those left overs and fucked up timelines. They didn’t think about it. That‘s what they believe & what the TVA teaches them as well.

But then they suddenly find out, that all of them are Variants too.

And it makes them feel weird. Guilty. Maybe even sick. Because that means every single Variant they pruned, every being on every single not-sacred-timeline they pruned, was a person.

Just like them.

Not inferior but equal.