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Item #: SCP-7000
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-7000 requires no particular special containment procedures. Due to worldwide trends, incidence of SCP-7000 is likely to be nearly if not fully masked. The majority of potential instances will recede with normal treatment and not attract attention as unusual phenomena. Civilians lost to SCP-7000 will likewise be dismissed as ordinary suicides, homicides or other missing persons cases. Foundation personnel are to be screened for incidence of SCP-7000 as part of regular evaluation. Positively diagnosed personnel that reach the terminal stage are to be issued exploration recording equipment and abandoned in a suitably isolated area. Recovery is not to be expected.
Description: SCP-7000 denotes a hitherto hypothetical psychological condition afflicting human beings. SCP-7000 appears closely related to common depression disorders, but exhibits some distinguishing features.
The greatest risk factor for SCP-7000 is a history of depression symptoms. Lesser risk factors SCP-7000 shares with common depression include high functioning autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, a family history of alcoholic or other drug misuse, and under or unemployment.
Risk factors not in common include: higher socioeconomic status, especially if inherited as opposed to earned, advanced educational attainment, employment relating to science, technology, government, finance, and related fields, and explicit knowledge of and/or connections to anomalous phenomena.
Due to SCP-7000's terminal effects, limited information about its civilian casualties is available. However, SCP-7000 is estimated to affect Foundation personnel at a ██% greater rate, resulting in ███ lost personnel annually. Information relating to SCP-7000's effects is therefore mostly drawn from interviews, logs, and studies involving Foundation personnel.
SCP-7000 manifests in the same manner as common depression, as a period of altered mood persisting for about two weeks. Seasonal changes, pregnancies, and other life transitions likewise appear to play a triggering role. During this period, subjects report overwhelming feelings of futility and despair, disrupting their work performance and social relations. Apathy, reduced appetite, and worsened sleep quality exacerbate these effects.
Beyond this point, subjects exhibit dramatically increased energy and stamina. Greater focus, clarity, empathy, and alertness have all been reported. Some testing suggests an actual increase in intelligence is included, but sample sizes remain too small for confidence. Most subjects also report diminished sleep or even insomnia, but do not exhibit typical negative effects. Food intake tends to increase to greater than normal.
Personality changes in affected persons are more dramatic. Subjects retain earlier feelings of guilt and inadequacy but report being motivated rather than hampered by these. Social relations begin to stabilize during this period, but then worsen as the subject loses patience with typical persons that do not share their state of heightened activity.
Subjects entering this state of the illness demonstrate greater job performance, healthier personal habits, and greater altruism, but this eventually progresses to obsessive behavior. Subjects begin to persistently offer unsolicited advice to friends, family, colleagues, and other acquaintances. The content of this advice is benign, but often couched in unrealistic suggestions or moralistic lectures. This predictably strains interpersonal relationships.
Subjects also begin to alter their style of living. These changes are also typically benign, but can become quite radical should the condition persist for more than a month. Common observed changes include: dietary modifications, emphasizing bulk grains and other unprocessed foods, while deemphasizing meat and other protein sources; the abandonment of most forms of entertainment not involving personal exercise, interpersonal socialization, or both; avoidance of automotive travel; liquidation of personal assets and possessions and use of the funds obtained for charitable purposes; and an increase in religious identification, for persons that are already religious.
The terminal stage of SCP-7000 involves the disappearance of the subject through unknown means. This is at present theorized to occur in all cases of SCP-7000 and in no cases may be subject be recovered by any means. Subjects following daily routines may be found missing at various times and places, typically partway through a task. Constant surveillance of SCP-7000 positive subjects in or out of containment is futile. Subjects are inevitably found to have been erroneously not placed under surveillance, or placed under surveillance and then erroneously released.
Clothing and other carried or worn objects are not left behind, suggesting that victims are abducted by some form of dimensional apportation. Homes, vehicles, or other locations personal to affected subjects do often display signs of disorder, but this is attributable to the eccentricity of the later stages of the conditions. Signs of violence, however, are absent, suggesting that subjects either consent to their egress or that the entity or phenomenon responsible is so quick or so powerful as to take them without warning.
Various means of containing subjects have been attempted. Subjects confined to secure quarters are invariably found missing with no sign of forced entry or any evidence of access by unknown parties. The same holds for subjects assigned to humanoid entity containment cells, even those rated for Euclid or Keter class entities. Subjects assigned to advanced esoteric containment devices such as reality anchors or temporal sinks have been found to disappear as a result of human error and miscommunication regarding containment procedures, suggesting that the entity or phenomenon abducting personnel is either capable of altering reality in a manner that existing equipment cannot counteract, or that it is aware of these technologies and is deliberately separating its victims from them.
Due to the above facts, SCP-7000 is at this time considered to be a Class XII (Personal, Absolute, Irreversible) threat to human life. Research is ongoing.
Addendum 7000-1: Exploration Attempts
While retaining custody of SCP-7000-affected personnel has proven impossible, electronic equipment carried remains functional past the point of disappearance, making exploration practical.