Cyberpsychosis is a terrifyingly dangerous condition that is far too prevalent in the cyberpunk universe. But what if what we’ve been told about it is a lie? By the end of this video, I hope to have you rethink what we know about cyberpsychosis.
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Cyberpsychosis is one of the most personally terrifying concepts I’ve ever seen in anime. The idea of someone losing themselves and being thrown into a bloody rage, endangering even the people closest to them is a nightmarish thought. We’ve been told that cyberpsychosis is caused by the increased use of cyberware, but is this actually the truth? After extensive research I’ve compiled the most prevalent theories surrounding cyberpsychosis and the major implications they have. My goal in this short video is to change your perception and present my case that cyberpsychosis is not what it seems.
The people of Night City are conditioned to believe that cyberpsychosis is caused by the increased use of cyberware but isn’t this definition a bit too convenient? It places the blame on the individual rather than the products or the living conditions of Night City. In this video I discuss the various examples of proof that cyberpsychosis is not what it seems as well as the most popular fan theories surrounding cyberpsychosis. From cyberpsychos being controlled, to rogue AIs hacking people, to corporations and governments inventing the condition, to a conspiracy to create products that deliberately cause cyberpsychosis, these theories are sure to make you rethink what you know about cyberpsychosis!
I’m Bumper Jumper, dedicated to exploring the deepest and most profound stories in anime, video games, movies, and TV shows. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this in the comments below!
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Emanuele Pia
13.07.2023there are some shards in the game that tell you what cyberpsycosis really is
Schrödy Brodie
13.07.2023In the 2020 TTRPG I used to have as high an EMP stat as possible in order to give a buffer for borging heavily later in the campaign.
dizdiz haok
13.07.2023Adam Sandler !!!??? 🥹🤣🤣🤣🤣
ShamanFryd
13.07.2023I prefer the "defective" product idea. The main character in the anime was able to maintain control over a military grade piece of equipment and several other mods with no psychological issues, only physical ones. However after the flash forward and him integrating his buddy's fist, who had cyber psychosis, into himself did he start having psychological issues. This implying the fists were the defective product.
I will admit though, in this scenario it implies the military tech is a product with no issues. Which would make the company's surprise that he was able to wield it with no psychological issues a bit odd.
Shafkat Ctg
13.07.2023wtf is atom smash
Atha Larik
13.07.2023Iirc 2/3 of all Maelstrom gangoons are Cyberpsychos. So that kinda put a tiny hole in the theory.
However, you might be onto something with Smasher. Before his transformation, he was already the least human soldier/ merc around. A known monster who loves killing. One who believes that collateral damage is a must in every mission. How is he immune?
Alex Cook
13.07.2023Of course it's not real dipshit. Some mofo made it up for a game🤣🤣🤣🤣, acting like there's something deeper to it. Yall are weird as fuck
TheIhplodur
13.07.2023Maybe Cyberpsychosis is a Virus implented in military Cyberware or a failed upgrade to Bersekermode. But after the Cyberpsycho questline, I realy think someone controlls them. Maybe someone makes BD Videogames where the players take controll over real persons without knowing.
Hectic1 Tech
13.07.2023Imo its population control. They see too many pple living in crime infested shitholes so they flip their switch. And politicians and celebs get controlled into doing what they want
Ultra Bex
13.07.2023With things like this I like to look at a biological perspective, because I think that can help understand the phychological one as well. I think that in general, cyberpsychosis is the result of your nervous system, hormone system and your brain just not being able to keep up with the chrome.
This is why I also think Adam Smasher is immune, because I think he also upgraded his brain and bodily systems to keep up with his ridiculous amount of chrome.
From what I read, psychology can often have an effect, but not directly change the results of an injury, which woulde explain why someone like David had high resistance, he had high humanity and the stubborness to back it up.
As for V, it is stated the the Relic chip has nanobot-ish technology that both rewrites his brain and heals his body, plus with psychological support from various characters like Misty, Mama Welles, Panam, Vitkor, Johnny etc., I think V has justifiable reasons to be so resistant.
And I agree with the theory that Maelstroms have high resistance in their genes, I can imagine that generations of people with highly chromed parents can increase their natural resistance
NO NAME
10.07.2023Did this dude say Adam Sandler at 3:56 like a few times LOL
Nattyboro
10.07.2023In the game Regina alludes to the idea cyberpsychosis may be far from what we think it is and only time will tell and the game stops short of shining a light on the topic. I think its possible cdpr could be playing the long game with this and in the end maybe it will be the main focus, possibly even a huge twist revealing the truth. Guess we'll see
Nattyboro
10.07.2023Also Johnny states the worst thing about arasaka/soul killer is that it can turn you into someone else without you even knowing it…quite the coincidence
_N
10.07.2023Bruh, you really called "Adam Smasher" "Adam Sandler." Twice. And a bunch of Maelstrom are cyberpsychos.
rando
10.07.2023David was experiencing cyberpsychosis when he was falling through the air with lucy lucy managed to bring him back to his normal state.
Kataztrophikk
10.07.2023You said Adam Sandler once lmao
Eliot Saintjean
10.07.2023Yea… you'r defintly the dumbest content creator around cyberpunk i have ever see, GG man, GG🤣🤣🤣 You'r a fucking 🤡 that's becoming funny at this point 😂😂😂
Dom D
10.07.2023Anyone else notice he called adam smasher Adam Sandler a few times?
Amber Skye
10.07.2023MaxTac are composed of ex cyberpsychos hunting cyberpsychos so there's definitely a cure for it
Amber Skye
10.07.2023The Rogue AI theory is the more plausible one they can hack the cyberware of an individual and make them turn to cyberpsychos
ryanz
08.07.2023Kill them and then recruit new people go life
dumbsterdives
08.07.2023Think its important to mention that almost every cyberpsycho we fight in 2077 has some external factor that caused them to go fully berserk. Like Lt. Mower, the Militech agent in Watson who was promised healthcare when she became symptomatic but instead was ambushed by a hitsquad, or the reality tv star who was poisoned into a coma, forcibly implanted with a ton of invasive combat implants, and given a forged letter from her twin telling her she was marrying the victim's fiance, all for the sake of a dramatic season finale. Most cyberpsychos are essentially just normal sufferers of psychosis, and their chrome is an easy scapegoat when the world finally makes them crack.
蘿安娜
08.07.2023jesus, you didn't play the game, did you? cyberpsychosis is a normal hack, just like suicide. there's no conspiracy theory to it and it's also untrue to imply she's the only one who can do that.
蘿安娜
08.07.2023adam smasher is cyberpsycho, not immune to it… :/ the most uninformed vid i've seen…. :/
Eric Rosario
08.07.2023I recall Mike Pondsmith explains how cyber psychosis can affect anybody and is not limited to Chrome junkies, so someone with bare minimum of cyberware can suffer from it as someone chromed out can't get it.
Death Gunner gaming
08.07.2023Yeah not getting ride of them permanently give them new cyborg solider to clean memory and make own pawn
Andrew
08.07.2023ah yes the legendary mercenary adam sandler 3:39
Comicsluvr
08.07.2023IMHO, true cyber-psychosis is a mixture of things.
In Cyberpunk 2020 a brief story from the Media Lifepath shows a Media character trying to get her 15 seconds of fame by coaxing a recently-arrested serial killer into trying to attack her. She'd heard rumors that a specific series of military cyberware was prone to failure and that the perp had such cyberware. Based on this, failing implants can clearly be one source of cyber-psychosis.
The CP 2020 system, as you mention, has the Humanity stat. Characters with a high Humanity are better able to interact with and read the intentions of others. Therefore, once your Humanity starts to decline from cyberware implants, you lose your connection with Humanity. It becomes harder to see people as people and eventually, paranoia may set in because you lose the ability to tell how a person feels so everyone becomes a potential enemy.
As for MaxTac, one of the treatments for cyber-psychosis is the shutdown or removal of most or all of the victim's cyberware. If MaxTac brings in someone and the most damaging parts of their cyberware are turned off or removed, AND they receive treatment, then it makes sense that they could become stable enough to work in a team.
It's plausible that people that are already psychotic might be more resistant to cyber-psychosis as their brains are either hardened against the damage or they simply no longer possess the normal feelings that other people do.
Subedsiber36
08.07.2023I believe that it’s real but the way I believe it works is that a cyber psycho is named that when a person with psycho tendency’s goes beserk while having cyber ware and as we all know cyber ware can be hacked leading us to some cases where it’s just people who were actually insane and people who were hacked to be insane
madcapHPS
08.07.2023Yea… I'll stick with the table top explanation, and assume the Anime was using it's visual medium to get the point across to people unfamiliar.
Goliath
07.07.2023Pro because take a bullet in His Head ?!!!
Mr J
07.07.2023"psychosis isn't real" I bet every psychologist will laugh upon hearing that.
KnightPage
07.07.20234:23 half of maelstrom members are high functioning cyberpsychos or on the edge of being psychos
savagepatty
07.07.2023Cyber psychosis the mental disorder isn’t the same as the quick hack. The quick hack is just called that since it can temporarily overwrite programming and alter perspectives.
There is a radio segment in the game about a corpo deep state that controls the population.
Check out the Garry storyline
Skyrim is for the Nords
07.07.2023The fixer that studies cyberphyschosis always says the media lies. So everything we think we know could be wrong. Propaganda is every day for the corpos
daniel Artok
07.07.2023The last is actually better than I expected. It makes sense that in hungry money world like that implants producer AKA the corpos would benefit the most of it.
Icing MIKUMARKO
07.07.2023it is
RUdigitized
07.07.2023I was under the impression that Johnny silverhand taking over your mind WAS cyber psychosis
Adrien Verwaest
07.07.2023there is a secret task wher a mass dack officer say thath a officer confirme that she was a old cyberpsycho but she seems normal
Mike Danger
07.07.2023I think Cyberpsychosis refers to people doing things they would normally not be doing. Whilst Maine and his crew are violent, they aren't sadistic, they care about people, and they want better lives for themselves and their friends. I don't think you could accuse Maelstrom or Adam Smasher of the same things. They are possibly living with or managing their affliction by essentially giving in to those tendencies. It doesn't bother them that much because they aren't trying to resist. Maine and David are trying to resist. They don't want to hurt people indiscriminately, and that's why it effects them.
MaxTac is an interesting case, though. Perhaps the level of violence and adreneline they endure sates them as well. it's also unclear exaclty what kind of lives they live outside of deployments. And its also unclear just how many MaxTac members there are. For all we know there are a dozen of them or less, not hundreds. Supporting this "exceptions to the rule" argument is Adam Smasher who is clearly something entirely different from conventional people, and Maelstrom gangers are also probably not as numerous as videogame mechanics would lead us to believe.
Max Levin
07.07.2023There's really no realistic reason why cyberpsychosis would exist as a specific syndrome different from any other form of delusional disorder, like standard schizophrenic psychosis or dissociative identity disorder. The only real explanation for what "causes" cyberpsychosis is that someone gets too much chrome, but there is no inherent reason, physically, why cybernetic devices would have any impact on someone's mental health. They just Do. In real life, we already have robotic prosthetics that read nervous signals to react to them, and the amputees who use them don't go insane.
As in Shadowrun, It's really just something that is meant to be a balancing factor for the tabletop game mechanically. It doesn't actually make sense as a speculative fictional element.
This is lampshaded by CDPR in the 2077 video game, where you can find an essay written by a neurologist that essentially says the same thing as the video; cyberpsychosis is just a catchall term for any serious delusional mental illness experienced by someone with cybernetics, and the public perception of cyberpsychos actually contributes to their development, like a social contagion. Even in the actual setting, cyberpsychosis is pretty much confirmed to not be a thing.
Mark Hardy
07.07.2023Cyberpsychosis is caused by fighting for ur humanity the ability of wanting to remember or feel again.. maelstrom and adam smasher are cyber psychos and have no soul however they have an agenda and purpose "kill when needed" When a soul loses its humanity, and is fighting the cyberpsychosis to feel.
"you cannot serve two masters"
卵戦士
07.07.2023I'm honestly too exhausted to say more than that you're just plain wrong
Chris Matteson
07.07.2023I like the idea that it’s both.
Cyberpsychosis is a mental state caused by overwhelming your body with implants. And some corpo netrunner also discovered how to cause cyberpsychosis by hacking your existing implants.
Nisshoku
07.07.2023I have i few thoughts to add
1. I heard some of the Maxtec are not cured they are just heavily medicated to stay stable.
2. Maelstrom is a gang, yes, but because they are thugs don't mean it's not companionship, in fact many gangs start because people want somewhere they belong.
3. Having strong empathy is a double edged sword, example if someone close dies it can effect they dramatically, and may result in mental illness, vs some who is more apathetic and let's say, violent like Adam, these things my not effect them as much as others.
4. As for V I agree with your analysis, could be the two minds, or simply being the protagonist in a rpg video game, V mental stability is just stronger than most.
Jose Rivera
07.07.2023Wtf is everyone calling adam smasher…adam sandler??
Cheesus Crust
07.07.2023I feel like its a mix of night city making people insane, people not associating with their actions because its metal and not their "real" body. Also that the implants depending on how hard they are wired to the nervous system simply fry said nervous system every time a little bit. Which would also go to the brain, thats what i think is being showed everytime David or even Adam use their implants.
Gllerm _
07.07.2023I was playing cyberpunk the other day and they started saying on the radio something about making the software malicious, somewhat like crating this virus “cyber psychosis” so they can take control of the people and make them robots, that’s why in the game they don’t want you too kill the psychos… I’m starting to get in deep on the topic also only heard the radio recording once so I can’t recall all they said
SGM Videos
07.07.2023I would suggest playing the game before making this video, yea, it would take at least 50 hours but – for example maelstrom – many speak of them as cyberpsychos + some of the quest reveal what they are doing and you understand. Than there are cyberpsychos quests where you find out it's more about what they actually think about before going psycho. So yea, the game explains it quiet well if you pay attention
Bumper Jumper
07.07.2023The Untold Truth About David’s Death: https://youtu.be/419lC7yc4_E