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 may go to heaven rather then limbo when you die. You will also gain a descriptive line about looking like an asshole in an indeterminate way.

Republicanism

Cause

Wearing a bucket on your head (at least thats how I got it)

Effect

-1 to brains

Megalomania

Cause

Unknown

Effect

No documented effect

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.

How to deal with the screaming purple bears in your head

Mental illness is hard to get rid off, requiring either an experienced medic with costly equipment, an empath or a hot bullet to the brain. If you get a mental illness you can always whine on chatnet for someone to help you, you will be completely ignored though.