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. / Someone is after you. / The whole world is out to get you.
Cause
Wearing a tinfoil hat.
Effect
Large focus hit, +1 Sen, -1 Col. Progresses slowly but steadily.
ADHD
Cause
Debilitator shells.
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.
Dependent Personality
Message
YOU MUST HAVE MORE DONGS AROUND YOU
Cause
Unknown
Effect
Stress when not being around other people. Also FIVE HUNDRED GOD DAMN LINES of "YOU MUST HAVE MORE DONGS AROUND YOU"
Kleptomania
Cause
Unknown
Effect
You'll grab random items from the room you're in. Very annoying.
Hypochondria/Munchausen Syndrome
Message
Maybe you'd get more attention if you pretended to be sick...
Cause
Unknown.
Effect
Unknown (Nothing seems to happen. I have Hyperimmune so that could be why?)
Claustrophobia
Message
You feel like the walls are closing in on you.
Cause
Spending time inside the broom closet.
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.
Anorexia Nervosa
Message
You are saddened by your gross body proportions.
Adds 'You feel like a fat pig.' to your status line.
Cause
Unknown
Effect
When you have any fullness, pleasantly full, full or uncomfortably full, you will immediately vomit. -1 to Cool on top.
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.
Bipolar Disorder
Cause
Unknown
Effect
No apparent effects. Very hard to diagnose.
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