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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners fans are debating whether cyberpsychosis is a real in-universe condition — or just a label society uses to control people who push back.
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Theory Briefing
- A fan theory argues cyberpsychosis — the violent breakdown from too many cybernetic implants — is not a genuine medical condition in the Cyberpunk world.
- The theory reframes cyberpsychosis as a social or political construct used to justify targeting those who over-augment outside corporate control.
- Edgerunners' protagonist David Martinez is a key test case, with fans split on whether his breakdown was biological or driven by grief and circumstance.
- The debate mirrors real questions about how societies label and pathologize behavior that threatens existing power structures.