#if only ryan coogler was directing all bucky media... 😪

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Do you think Bucky would have been okay in an extremely high security psych facility? Like, say he had access to genuinely good therapists and around the clock care in Wakanda, would he have gotten antsy and withdrawn, or would he have done well in that kind of environment?

Hmm... little from column A, little from column B? ¯_( :/ )_/¯

IMO Bucky has a sweet enough nature and sufficient mental fortitude to flourish in any circumstances.

But I do think he'd become restless, even if he made friends and got better in that kind of controlled environment.

A) Having been under the control of others, and survived on his own for so long, it would probably rankle him to have his life once again dictated for him; where he can be and what he can do -- especially after having a taste of freedom just prior -- even if the people doing it were well intentioned, this time.

B) I can't imagine he has a good opinion of doctors of any variety, which wouldn't help.

C) As a supersoldier he has a higher energy level than ordinary patients, so a pace which would seem merely restful to them would feel doubly suffocating and slow-moving, to him.

The real problem of course is how to treat Bucky in the first place.

As far as we know of this universe, all extant psychiatric treatment methods have been designed with non-enhanced patients in mind; to help people cope with traumas it is physically possible to survive (because if they weren't survivable then the patient would be dead).

...But Bucky has survived things it isn't physically possible for a normal person to survive.

So unless there has been some recent innovation in psychiatry specifically geared towards helping enhanced people, in this 'verse, there's no medical guidebook as to how to treat that.

And when you add up all the problems Bucky has simultaneously...

Losing a limb, losing all his family, all his friends, his home world, (arguably, the war), losing his memory, his partner, coping with long term brain-damage, having C-PTSD from the war, and from being tortured beyond the point of human survivability for 70+ years, the stress of being a fugitive for 2+ years, and the moral injury of what he was forced to do to both strangers and his sole surviving loved one?

Even suspending disbelief to suppose it is possible for someone in-universe to treat Bucky successfully, any one of those ^ things would be enough for a psychiatrist to treat on its own.

But all of them at the same time?!

#long post #toAyourQ #dat's me #hey nonny #bucky barnes #bucky meta #meta #mcu #mcu meta #bucky's the kind of patient where the shrink has to stop therapy because THEY don't have the spoons for HIM #(cue: Bucky's Shrink Is Hannibal Lecter AU) #thinking about it the most precious person in wakanda in terms of bucky's recovery #(apart from the royal siblings) #is someone we never got to see him interact with: #queen ramonda was married to an enhanced man for decades #who in turn suffered the moral injury of killing his own brother #what an absolute wealth of life experience that woman must have... #for how to cope as an enhanced man with trauma... #she's also much closer to bucky in terms of chronological age #if only ryan coogler was directing all bucky media... 😪 #yet each man queues the thing he loves