Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

Fetish ?

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

A political hopeful?

captain_spalding said:

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

A political hopeful?

That’s about right isn’t, a Young Liberal party member

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

from Urban Dictionary

Schizophilia
The obsession one has to be or consider themselves “crazy”, or insane, and ultimately the thing people who try to be unique often associate themselves as.

A schizophiliac with often claim to have the following disorders: Bipolar Disorder, Dissociative Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, any neurological or pathology related illness. To be a schizophiliac however, one isn’t legitimately diagnosed with any of these, but often will perform an internet diagnosis.

It’s most common in females (scene/emo and/or fangirls), attention whores, hipsters, and Tumblr-users.
Emo Girl #1 “Omg we’re soo random”
Emo Girl #2 “IKR probably cause we’re bipolar”
Emo Girl #1 “Def yeah, we are insane!”
Me “No, you just have schizophilia”

“I am crazy, I’m literally insane, I probably have like, schizophrenia or something I’m that insane, look at this picture I drew! Would a sane person draw it? No! lol” -Commonly spoken on deviantART or Tumblr by girls with schizophilia. #girls#attention whores#misdiagnosis#schizophrenia#insanity#tumblrfag#internet#scene#emo#angsty#edgy
by opisnotafag May 11, 2013

not really an attraction to but a claiming of mental health disorder….

mollwollfumble said:

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

define ‘unhealthy’

Bubblecar said:

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Bubblecar said:

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

The obsession one has to be or consider themselves “crazy”, or insane, and ultimately the thing people who try to be unique often associate themselves as.

A schizophiliac with often claim to have the following disorders: Bipolar Disorder, Dissociative Personality Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, any neurological or pathology related illness. To be a schizophiliac however, one isn’t legitimately diagnosed with any of these, but often will perform an internet diagnosis.

It’s most common in females (scene/emo and/or fangirls), attention whores, hipsters, and Tumblr-users.

from

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schizophilia

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

define ‘unhealthy’

Only has sex with mad people.

Beaten by Arts

mollwollfumble said:

Bubblecar said:

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Depending on the crime you don’t get a get out of jail free charge, they can lock you up in a psych ward

mollwollfumble said:

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

define ‘unhealthy’

Only has sex with mad people.

I am having issues with your terminology.

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Bubblecar said:

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Depending on the crime you don’t get a get out of jail free charge, they can lock you up in a psych ward

and even with a mental illness you can still be held criminally responsible

competency v’s culpability

Arts said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Depending on the crime you don’t get a get out of jail free charge, they can lock you up in a psych ward

and even with a mental illness you can still be held criminally responsible

competency v’s culpability

Yes the person I just processed was diagnosed with a mental illness and was on meth when he started two fires one of which damaged a church he got a suspended jail sentence

>In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks

People who are genuinely troubled by mental illness would not be impressed by that claim.

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

Bubblecar said:

I’ve never heard of schizophilia.

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Depending on the crime you don’t get a get out of jail free charge, they can lock you up in a psych ward

And if you think that is the easier option, good luck to you.

buffy said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

It’s the desire to be mad, or be thought of as mad.

In modern society, claiming to be mad has a lot of perks, such as avoidance of work, is used as an excuse for intollerable behviour, and get out of jail free. As well as making yourself seem less boring than you really are.

Depending on the crime you don’t get a get out of jail free charge, they can lock you up in a psych ward

And if you think that is the easier option, good luck to you.

Yea, can’t say any of the people I saw sectioned thought of it as a ‘perk’; most were so off the reservation it usually took a few months for them to realise where they were and what they had done.

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Or is it more of an attention seeking fad so make out you are cool, what you said is true though

Cymek said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Or is it more of an attention seeking fad so make out you are cool, what you said is true though

Robert : You’re gonna be okay.

Catherine : I am?

Robert : Yes. I promise you. The simple fact that we can talk about this together is a good sign.

Catherine : A good sign?

Robert : Yeah.

Catherine : How could it be a good sign?

Robert : Because crazy people don’t sit around wondering if they’re nuts.

Catherine : They don’t?

Robert : No. They’ve got better things to do. Take it from me. A very good sign that you’re crazy is an inability to ask the question, “Am I crazy?”

Catherine : Even if the answer is yes?

Robert : Crazy people don’t ask, you see?

Catherine : Huh.

- ‘Proof’ 2005

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

a philia isn’t a mental disorder.. it’s a ‘love for’

a phrenia is a metal disorder

Arts said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

a philia isn’t a mental disorder.. it’s a ‘love for’

a phrenia is a metal disorder

So if your wife’s name is Ophelia you love her, but if its Ophernia your nuts

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Correct. The name “schizophilia” is an informal one, not a medical one. So it’s not classed as a mental disorder.

Medically, it could be considered a type of Munchausen, which is factitious.

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Correct. The name “schizophilia” is an informal one, not a medical one. So it’s not classed as a mental disorder.

Medically, it could be considered a type of Munchausen, which is factitious.

I suppose it depends on how far you take it, talking about it casually, compared to taking mind altering drugs so you wig out and people think you are mentally ill is a whole different level

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Correct. The name “schizophilia” is an informal one, not a medical one. So it’s not classed as a mental disorder.

Medically, it could be considered a type of Munchausen, which is factitious.

You all know I was joking.

Right?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So, if you have schizophilia you think you have a mental disorder, when you don’t really.

But schizophilia is a mental disorder, so you really do have a mental disorder.

But if you really do have a mental disorder, you don’t have schizophilia, so you don’t have a mental disorder.

… and so on.

Correct. The name “schizophilia” is an informal one, not a medical one. So it’s not classed as a mental disorder.

Medically, it could be considered a type of Munchausen, which is factitious.

You all know I was joking.

Right?

Right :-)

I wonder how many mental illnesses I could convincingly fake if allowed to practice for a week. I’m pretty sure I could manage:

• Paranoia
• Hearing voices – demonic possession
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Depression
• Anxiety – social phobia
• Claustrophobia

I may or may not be able to convincingly fake:

• Agoraphobia
• Aspergers
• Bipolar

I could not fake, no way:

• Hysteria
• Addiction-related problems
• ADHD
• PTSD – nightmares
• Sex-related neurosis
• OCD
• OCPD
• Psychopath

Mental Illness – for fun and profit.

One of my old jokes is of person who has both claustrophobia and agoraphobia – who spends all their time running into and out of the closet.

> Robert : No. They’ve got better things to do. Take it from me. A very good sign that you’re crazy is an inability to ask the question, “Am I crazy?”

This is not actually true.

Neurotics know they’re crazy, it’s part of the definition.

It used to be said that psychotics did not know they were crazy, but this was only true before the development of effective meds. A psychotic who goes off their meds knows that they’re crazy.

mollwollfumble said:

. A psychotic who goes off their meds knows that they’re crazy.

No.

mollwollfumble said:

> Robert : No. They’ve got better things to do. Take it from me. A very good sign that you’re crazy is an inability to ask the question, “Am I crazy?”

This is not actually true.

Neurotics know they’re crazy, it’s part of the definition.

It used to be said that psychotics did not know they were crazy, but this was only true before the development of effective meds. A psychotic who goes off their meds knows that they’re crazy.

Maybe so.

But, certainly not all crazy people know they’re crazy. Look at Donald Trump. He thinks he’s a genius while 99% of the world can see he’s nuttier than a Scorched Peanut Bar.

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

define ‘unhealthy’

Perhaps I can define ‘unhealthy’ more clearly.

The attraction of a psychiatrist or a psychiatric nurse to a mad person can be considered healthy.

An unhealthy attraction would include one in which the person suffers from the attraction, one where person starts to take on some facet of the mad beliefs as their own, one where the mad person gets madder (psychologists call this “enabling”) rather than saner as a result, or one that isolates the person from sane society. So count that as four different types of “unhealthy”.

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

This is what I mean.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

This is what I mean.

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

This is what I mean.

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

Same with my generation. I didn’t kill any aborigines or make anyspecies extinct. I didn’t create cancer causing chemicals and habits. I didn’t create the waste producing society.

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

This is what I mean.

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

Same with my generation. I didn’t kill any aborigines or make anyspecies extinct. I didn’t create cancer causing chemicals and habits. I didn’t create the waste producing society.

Some of the problems that exist are no ones fault its the cost of modern society, others though are covered up or ignored and that’s inexcusable

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Correct. The name “schizophilia” is an informal one, not a medical one. So it’s not classed as a mental disorder.

Medically, it could be considered a type of Munchausen, which is factitious.

You all know I was joking.

Right?

Right :-)

I wonder how many mental illnesses I could convincingly fake if allowed to practice for a week. I’m pretty sure I could manage:

• Paranoia
• Hearing voices – demonic possession
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Depression
• Anxiety – social phobia
• Claustrophobia

I may or may not be able to convincingly fake:

• Agoraphobia
• Aspergers
• Bipolar

I could not fake, no way:

• Hysteria
• Addiction-related problems
• ADHD
• PTSD – nightmares
• Sex-related neurosis
• OCD
• OCPD
• Psychopath

Mental Illness – for fun and profit.

One of my old jokes is of person who has both claustrophobia and agoraphobia – who spends all their time running into and out of the closet.

I think it would be hard to fake the rambling disjointed conversations the mentally ill sometimes have, nor some of the more elaborate conspiracy threads they manage to weave together, not the usual conspirinaut twin towers stuff which I don’t think it mental illness as such, but the more personal listings of a lived life.

AwesomeO said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

You all know I was joking.

Right?

Right :-)

I wonder how many mental illnesses I could convincingly fake if allowed to practice for a week. I’m pretty sure I could manage:

• Paranoia
• Hearing voices – demonic possession
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Depression
• Anxiety – social phobia
• Claustrophobia

I may or may not be able to convincingly fake:

• Agoraphobia
• Aspergers
• Bipolar

I could not fake, no way:

• Hysteria
• Addiction-related problems
• ADHD
• PTSD – nightmares
• Sex-related neurosis
• OCD
• OCPD
• Psychopath

Mental Illness – for fun and profit.

One of my old jokes is of person who has both claustrophobia and agoraphobia – who spends all their time running into and out of the closet.

I think it would be hard to fake the rambling disjointed conversations the mentally ill sometimes have, nor some of the more elaborate conspiracy threads they manage to weave together, not the usual conspirinaut twin towers stuff which I don’t think it mental illness as such, but the more personal listings of a lived life.

I think the idea of being able to fake something and being able to fake it consistently with conviction are two different things. I mean you are not diagnosed on the one meeting…

One of my old jokes is of person who has both claustrophobia and agoraphobia – who spends all their time running into and out of the closet.

Or is in denial of being gay and agoraphobic and won’t come out the closer figuratively and literally

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

This is what I mean.

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

And those of us who were teenagers in the Cold War? We didn’t think we could see oblivion any time without notice? (Actually, I didn’t have a lot of angst about it, but apparently some did)

buffy said:

Cymek said:

mollwollfumble said:

This is what I mean.

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

And those of us who were teenagers in the Cold War? We didn’t think we could see oblivion any time without notice? (Actually, I didn’t have a lot of angst about it, but apparently some did)

We are having a Cold War now, USA, Russia and the Chinese this time and add in unstable North Korea would could be used as pawn to start a nuclear conflict

Cymek said:

buffy said:

Cymek said:

Kids and young adults may despair of what sort of a world they will inherit from the older generations especially as many of them as blameless

And those of us who were teenagers in the Cold War? We didn’t think we could see oblivion any time without notice? (Actually, I didn’t have a lot of angst about it, but apparently some did)

We are having a Cold War now, USA, Russia and the Chinese this time and add in unstable North Korea would could be used as pawn to start a nuclear conflict

It’s an unstable world, Syria kickoff off which involves tension with Turkey, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Pakistan and India, and the usual middle eastern shitfight but no real proxy conflicts. The Cold War was two systems in deadly conflict and supporting others in deadly conflict. I wouldn’t characterise what is going on now as an equivalent, trying to think of a better term.

The subterranean war using financial and computer networking weapons.

AwesomeO said:

Cymek said:

buffy said:

And those of us who were teenagers in the Cold War? We didn’t think we could see oblivion any time without notice? (Actually, I didn’t have a lot of angst about it, but apparently some did)

We are having a Cold War now, USA, Russia and the Chinese this time and add in unstable North Korea would could be used as pawn to start a nuclear conflict

It’s an unstable world, Syria kickoff off which involves tension with Turkey, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Pakistan and India, and the usual middle eastern shitfight but no real proxy conflicts. The Cold War was two systems in deadly conflict and supporting others in deadly conflict. I wouldn’t characterise what is going on now as an equivalent, trying to think of a better term.

The subterranean war using financial and computer networking weapons.

Plus we don’t know if most terrorists organisations are funded by larger powers to just create instability.
Also and perhaps it’s just sausage waving but various powers claiming new stealth nuclear missiles and the possibility of the weaponization of space

Cymek said:

AwesomeO said:

Cymek said:

We are having a Cold War now, USA, Russia and the Chinese this time and add in unstable North Korea would could be used as pawn to start a nuclear conflict

It’s an unstable world, Syria kickoff off which involves tension with Turkey, Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Pakistan and India, and the usual middle eastern shitfight but no real proxy conflicts. The Cold War was two systems in deadly conflict and supporting others in deadly conflict. I wouldn’t characterise what is going on now as an equivalent, trying to think of a better term.

The subterranean war using financial and computer networking weapons.

Plus we don’t know if most terrorists organisations are funded by larger powers to just create instability.
Also and perhaps it’s just sausage waving but various powers claiming new stealth nuclear missiles and the possibility of the weaponization of space

Yes all of that, which is what I meant about a more unstable world. Back in the day with the soviets and the Americans in conflict there was a possibility that proxies could be drawn back, there was back door channels, it was to the edge it hopefully not beyond. It’s much more chaotic now.

mollwollfumble said:

Know anyone?
Is it the new plague?

Follow on question. What do you call someone who has an unhealthy attraction to truly mad people?

psychiatrist