Pronunciation: /rɪˈɡrɛsɪv ɪnˈsænɪti ˈsɪndroʊm/
noun
1. A psychological and metaphysical condition observed in individuals who experience cyclical temporal regression, typically triggered by death, and return to a fixed point in their personal timeline. The syndrome describes the progressive erosion of sanity and the conscious adoption of a fractured psyche as a direct result of the accumulated trauma from repeated deaths and lived experiences across multiple timelines.
2. The defining state where the subject ceases to perceive regression as a failure or a punishment, and instead weaponizes the process. By deliberately absorbing the existential dissonance and psychic feedback of their fractured existence, the subject transforms latent insanity into a source of power, strategic insight, or unconventional ability, viewing each life and death as an experimental data point for achieving a superordinate goal.
noun
1. A psychological and metaphysical condition observed in individuals who experience cyclical temporal regression, typically triggered by death, and return to a fixed point in their personal timeline. The syndrome describes the progressive erosion of sanity and the conscious adoption of a fractured psyche as a direct result of the accumulated trauma from repeated deaths and lived experiences across multiple timelines.
2. The defining state where the subject ceases to perceive regression as a failure or a punishment, and instead weaponizes the process. By deliberately absorbing the existential dissonance and psychic feedback of their fractured existence, the subject transforms latent insanity into a source of power, strategic insight, or unconventional ability, viewing each life and death as an experimental data point for achieving a superordinate goal.
Characters like 'Kim Gong-Ja' from the manhwa "SSS Class Suicide Hunter" and 'Encrid' from the manhwa "Eternally Regressing Knight" use their eternal regression curse as a tool and a method to get stronger, meanwhile also obtaining the insanity of being able to tolerate pain and death tens and even hundreds of times without giving up. This is the definition of the 'Regressive Insanity Syndrome'
by relentlessR3 October 19, 2025
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by BottomSub February 23, 2021
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I’m a Cajun and I’ve never seen the world so insane before.
i.e. WTH you’re Lebanese, what are you doing in Louisiana in the first place.
i.e. WTH you’re Lebanese, what are you doing in Louisiana in the first place.
by confused cajun man January 13, 2021
Get the I’m a Cajun and I’ve never seen the world so insane beforemug. xemous-stimsx: it's insane i mean neurodivergent how the horrors never stop
wowiezowie-1987: i'm legitimately insane i mean neurodivergent about Serial Experiments Lain
wowiezowie-1987: i'm legitimately insane i mean neurodivergent about Serial Experiments Lain
by eatingknees July 20, 2024
Get the Insane I mean neurodivergentmug. Not as insane as thinking your entitled to an indefinite about of labor and that you are the arbiter of what constitutes a "good enough" quality of life.
Truckazord "This is insane!"
Hym "This duel has only just begun, Truckazord! And now I'll activate my continuous trap card! HUMAN WAVE TACTICS!"
Hym "This duel has only just begun, Truckazord! And now I'll activate my continuous trap card! HUMAN WAVE TACTICS!"
by Hym Iam November 26, 2023
Get the This is insanemug. by anonymous August 20, 2024
Get the Insanitymug.