PSYCH 126: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Clinical Deep Dives · Sep 18, 2026 · 49m

Medlock Holmes enters an immense Neo-Victorian institution called The Citadel of the Unfinished Alarm.

At the centre is a vast clock frozen at the moment of trauma.

Outside the citadel, the danger has passed.

Inside, however, bells continue to ring.

A veteran ducks at the sound of a car backfiring. A survivor avoids a street that resembles the place of an assault. Another wakes from the same nightmare night after night. A fourth scans every room for exits.

Holmes immediately recognises the defining paradox of post-traumatic stress disorder:

The event belongs to the past, but the nervous…