The Man Has Issues And Actively Maintains Those Issues - Tumblr Posts

You see, what I like to believe is that it's because of very bad psychological care when he was a kid. It's completely a fanon believe of mine and has absolutely no claim in canon, lmao

But anyway

I've heard from someone (so i can be completely wrong on this lmao) say that until the 70's or 80's it was widely believed that children just "bounced back" from traumatic events after which it was actually believed that traumatic events can actually effect a child for the rest of their lives.

So now the child psychology began yeeey! But oh no, because it's a brand new idea, they thought the exact opposite of what will help the kid with trauma should be used to help them deal with a traumatic event, not yeeey.

So what they would do is take a traumatized child and force them to say in as much detail as they can what happened to them over and over and over again.

You can see where this is going :)

So since Bruce is supposed to be nearing 50 and at this point the timeline seems about right. He would be put into therapy with the newest way to help kids :D making him relive his parent death constantly over and over again.

Making him spiral with all the ways he could've done something to stop it, ect. ect.

So basically, I like the idea of the uno reverse of "this man needs therapy" that instead he got therapy and it was so bad it turned him furry

Anyway, that can explain why he would constantly retraumatize himself. Because that's what he was taught in therapy. To just relive that moment until it got better to live with the memory, the problem being: it never got better for him.

I just realized Batman would not be able to escape silent hill

Okay so silent hill one scenario he could since that’s wandering in by chance

But silent hill 2? Where it’s a manifestation of your traumas and inner demons? And you have to accept them and let it go to escape from silent hill?

Bruce has canonically retraumatized himself multiple times rather than get over the death of his parents. He intentionally relives the trauma of his parents death rather than potentially losing his edge as Batman

He is not coming to terms with diddly, and if he did and managed to escape silent hill he’d immediately retraumatize himself for the lord knows how many times it’s already been time