You certainly weren't joking about Trilby's Notes - I thought I could cope with it as Silent Hill is much the same idea, but after it warped me to the cargo bay from 7 Days out of nowhere and started responding to everything I typed with "it hurts", I was forced to put it down.

Explain. This sounds eerily similar to the concept of ghosts and supernatural things along those lines themselves being tortured or frightened, which is my major weakness. As I've said in a couple videogame_tales posts before, if a ghost appears and says something like "Who dares disturb my sleep, all intruders shall perish," then I just go "Meh, it's an enemy," but something like "Please help me" or "I'm so cold" is so scary that I'm actually a little more nervous now just from having typed that.

That's why the warning ghost in the White Tower in Lands of Lore traumatized me as much it did, and Lands of Lore isn't even a scary game! It's a Dungeon Master clone, for God's sake.