Books, movies, etc. are always full of psi-sensitive folks going insane and offing themselves from revelation.
That's aside from them getting fucked up in other ways.
We need more of this stuff to happen to magic users... and also other psykers.
And no, my inspiration isn't 40k. It still has something to learn from Simon R. Green's Deathstalker series: espers in it all have all sorts of bad time.
There's also a bit of Starship Troopers book in there, where there's an episode at the end with a telepath just walking unprotected on a planet were MI still have to stay in power armor to survive.


