Mental illness

Mental illnesses are status effects that are very hard to get rid of and can often effect you for odd reasons, either because you read/wore the wrong thing or because you have a particular mutation. Things that cause mental illnesses commonly are Buckethead's bucket, which will give you a random mental illness when worn, but not if you already have one. Aside from that, Hideous Freaks and Abominations reclone with one, and sometimes two. Players with the vampire mutation get mental illnesses when they get hungry enough. While mental illnesses are inconvenient, they rarely come without at least one upside, making them somewhat a mental form of rad mutations.

(incomplete)List Of Mental Illnesses

Christianity

Cause

Reading a bible

Effect

You go to heaven rather then limbo when you die. Masturbating and having sex makes you cry. You will also gain a descriptive line stating that you are an asshole.

Republicanism

Cause

Unknown

Effect

-1 to brains.

Damnation

Cause

Unknown

Effect

500 stress per heartbeat. Spawns new mentals. Absurdly hard to cure.

Paranoia

Cause

Wearing a tinfoil hat.

Effect

Large focus hit, slight buff to Senses.

Aspergers

Cause

Wearing a fedora, getting hit with a spergnade.

Effect

Gives you a text filter and renders you unable to emote properly.

Ailurophobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

You get stressed when around cats.

Megalomania

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect.

Delusions of grandeur

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Makes you brag random, incorrect things.

Kleptomania

Cause

Unknown

Effect

You'll grab random items from the room you're in. Very annoying.

Hypochondria

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Unknown

Claustrophobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Constant stress gain while indoors. Status screen will say "you feel like the walls are closing in on you"

Nymphomania

Cause

The Goo Fountain in Hellfire

Effect

Randomly doses you with the Rapinex drug, causing you to take off your clothes and prematurely dissipating your endorphins. The benefit to this is it means you can whore more often, if that's your thing. A downside is that you end up getting stressed if you go too long without sexual contact.

Arachnophobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Stress and fear around arachnos, cave spiders, etc.

Agoraphobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Stress from being around people, more people escalate the effect.

Bulimia Nervosa

Cause

Unknown

Effect

When you have any fullness, pleasantly full, full or uncomfortably full, you will immediately vomit. Adds the message 'You feel like a fat pig.' to your status line.

Voices in your Head

Cause

Admins use this to punish people.

Effect

Causes you to see various nets that aren't really there. Can be very annoying at times. No other documented effect.

Narcolepsy

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect.

Insomnia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect.

Zalgo

Cause

Clones/ripperscrubs in Weezer Village. As with all disease it can be granted by the admins and gods. It spreads from player to player who occupy the same square like a plague.

Effect

You scream 'HE COMES! HE COMEEES!' and eventually you start bleeding from eyes and taking damage. Final result of all of this is horrible anguish and death. You are also contagious to other players.

Cure

You can cure it by converting to Christianity, done by reading or hearing someone read a bible at you. The bible and be acquired from Father Sam who wanders the areas around Freedom City.

Saurophobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

You get stressed when around anything with scales. This means dinosaurs and people with Snakeskin

Cure

Have a player with decent Medic skill psychoanalyze you.

How to deal with the screaming purple bears in your head

Depending on how severe your mental illness is, it could be simple to remove, or a giant nightmare to do so. At the higher intensities, psychoanalyzing a mental illness can be one of the hardest medic skill checks available. It helps if you are reclining on a comfortable piece of furniture when being psychoanalyzed. If you have enigma, you are so mysterious you can't even share your own inner mental workings, so you must rely on someone with Empath to help, they may or may not be willing to do so as their ability to cure mental illnesses has a chance to just take it from you and give it to themselves. If you need help, just politely ask on tradenet and someone would most likely be willing to assist, if not, maybe try to just enjoy the interesting perspective a mental illness gives you, sometimes they have some really neat effects.