Young Sasha was a sensitive and traumatized child despite his spoiled bourgeoisie upbringing in the immaculate and hyper-sexualized city-scene of St. Petersburg. He had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder for all of his life because of his inordinate memory-retention that forced him to have memories dating back to going through his mother's birth canal. The only way he was able to handle having seen his mother in this way was to hide it and pretend it hadn't happened, although he was diagnosed with an extreme case of Oedipus Complex later in life due to suppression of the memories. Otherwise, he was known to be the sanest of all the Russian composers.