Mental illness

Mental illnesses (also called mentals) are diseases that are usually hard to get rid of and give you Fun effects.
The most common causes are wearing fucky headgear, being a hungry Vampire, using Carrie or recloning as a Freak/Abomination.
There are only three cures for most: A good doctor, an Empath or death. Mentals become much harder to cure the longer someone is affected by them.

How to deal with the screaming purple bears in your head

Depending on how far the mental has progressed, it could be simple to remove, or a giant nightmare to do so. At the higher intensities, psychoanalyzing mental illnesses are 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 the rare Empath to help, they may be able to absorb your mentals for a fee.
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.

(incomplete)List Of Mental Illnesses

Christianity

Cause

Reading a bible, looking at one of the Jesus pictures or just hanging around them for long enough.

Effect

You have an increased chance of going to heaven when you die. Masturbating and having sex stresses you and makes you cry. You will also gain a descriptive line stating that you are an asshole.

Depression

Cause

Plant whisperers get this from cloudy weather.

Effect

-1 to all stats.

Republicanism

Cause

Unknown

Effect

-1 to brains.

Damnation

Message

You feel something dark scratching at your soul.

Cause

Attempting to scam Jesus.

Effect

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

Paranoia

Message

You're feeling watched. / The whole world is out to get you.

Cause

Wearing a tinfoil hat.

Effect

Large focus hit, slight buff to Senses.

ADHD

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Nukes your Focus, keeps you from sitting or reclining in place for very long, +1 reflex.

Aspergers

Cause

Wearing a fedora, getting hit with a spergnade.

Effect

Gives you a text filter and renders you unable to emote properly. +1 brains, debuffs Focus.

Ailurophobia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

You get stressed when around cats and players with Cat Ears.

Megalomania

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect.

Delusions of grandeur

Message

You realize you are actually even better than you thought!

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Makes you brag random, incorrect things. Has a chance to buff cool and/or nerf reflexes/senses/brains.

Kleptomania

Cause

Unknown

Effect

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

Hypochondria

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Unknown

Claustrophobia

Message

You feel like the walls are closing in on you.

Cause

Unknown

Effect

Constant stress gain while indoors.

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.

Robot Enlightenment

Message

In one powerful moment of realization, it's as if the world of machines has been laid bare before you. The circuits, gears, wires, all of it; they seem at once a testament to the perfection of utility and a holy reminder of the power of the human intellect.

Cause

Unknown.

Effect

Unknown. Very hard to diagnose.

Satanist Dementia

Cause

Drinking satanist blood(?).

Effect

Some stat debuffs. Makes curing Damnation look like a walk in the park, with instant failures at 50 medic total.

Schizophrenia

Cause

Unknown.

Effect

Makes it appear as if players and admins walk into your tile and attack you.

Insomnia

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect.

Persecution Complex(?)

Cause

Unknown.

Effect

You'll receive random Stars, cams will start tracking you and security will chase you down. It's all in your head.

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