Talk:Helen Grady (Madness)/@comment-4024158-20120807152548

The way I see it, Helen may have been suffering from Spectrophobia. Maybe at some point in Travis' childhood, she looked in to a mirror and became delusional about seeing "people in the mirrors". Telling her to kill "the devil child".

Since Spectrophobia, in Latin: spectrum means "ghost", is a morbid fear of mirrors and one's own reflections. I think it's safe to assume that Helen saw something in the mirror and told her about killing Travis. One of the reason why she had to be sent to the sanitarium.

She said something about travelling through the mirrors, right? It would have been impossible for her to travel through it because, again she was, and still, delusional about the "people in the mirrors".

In Silent Hill: Origins, the reason why Travis was able to travel through the mirrors is because of his mother's beliefs on the Otherworld by passing through it. The town can toy with anyone's mind, as long as it is related to them, so this could be possible.

I'm not sure about the abuse of Helen as a child part... but I can tell you this. She may have started her fear as a child and re-started the fear again at some point when Travis was just a child and tried to gas the both of them.
 * Spectrophobia is caused by seeing or hearing a ghost or apparition, the person could also become traumatized by horror films, television shows, or by nightmares. This fear could be the result of a trauma involving mirrors. It could also be the result of the person’s superstitious fear of being watched through the mirror. Movies relating the supernatural world with mirrors could be the cause of this fear in younger children especially.