Therapy Theory

So, I typed this up in the video 13 section, but I thought it might get buried under comments. My fiance and I have been dedicated to watching this since I showed her a few months ago, but she came up with a theory that I haven't seen yet. My fiance is studying for her masters in mental health counseling and she saw a lot of connections between this game and common therapy practices for pulling repressed memories.

For instance, we have several children throughout the game that are known pretty well in the media and we have the full story on. None of the children seem to be connected in anyway except for the horrible things that happened to them. This is common practice in pulling repressed memories because the intention is you use examples that are common and apply them to the case at hand as a way of triggering a memory. This is used very frequently in music, art and literature. You might hear a song that reminds you of something and suddenly you remember something you repressed a long time ago. It also makes sense that this would be recorded and uploaded on youtube, as a lot of psychological practices now-a-days are put up for public viewing to educate the public. Maybe these psychologists/psychiatrists are uploading the videos to show video games are a viable medium to pull repressed memories.

It would also explain why the game is developed specifically for him. He knows what the objects are and he is the only one that possesses it; the game was designed specifically for him because only he has those repressed memories. It would also explain the censorship due to HIPAA laws that prevent doctors from providing information to the public that is private (just like if you were to go to the doctor; he can't tell anyone other than you or you're guardian, if you're under 18, what is going on with your body).

Also consider how he was encouraged to continue even though he wanted to stop. He likely didn't want to open that bag of worms but was encouraged by the therapist to continue so he could pull out those memories that he trapped away in his sub-conscious.

Specifically at the end of 13, she pointed out to the "you may stand up now." She said that this is common when you take a psych eval, at the end it says something to the extent of "you may tell the proctor your done" or "you may leave now," especially if it's computer based. This would also explain why there is a time lapse in things happening in the game, because he needs to walk away for a while to get some rest and not focus on the evaluation so much.

I don't think I gave her explanation justice and I'll get her to type something later, but I wanted to put it out there because she'd be too nervous to say anything. And if someone else has come up with this theory already, link me to it, because I couldn't find it.