Topic: People I've known with weird mental disorders
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC started this discussion 3 years ago#107,036
I'm going to keep this as a list of mentally disordered people that I've met. Also for others here to document as well
1. Once when I was an early teen, I knew a boy who believed that he was the only real person in existence
He believed that everyone else were npcs with no thoughts that didn't involve him and their world and lives didn't exist when not around him. This was before everyone called each other npcs over politics
He also believed that he would never going to die/was immortal. He would pull risky stunts like jumping off of high places and when he didn't die, that was further proof to himself that he was immortal
Sometimes I think of him and wonder if he ever grew out of this idea or if he is actually deceased from his risky behavior
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 13 minutes after the original post[^][v]#1,202,251
2. I once knew a female resident who had "Truman Show syndrome"
She was a patient at the facility and believed that her entire life was being filmed and broadcast on a TV station that only certain people were able to view. Evidently She was less paranoid at home but being forced into a new environment ratcheted up her beliefs greatly
I've never met anyone so anxious and being around her made me sick with anxiety. It was like the room was spinning
Whenever I did any care for her, I'd never expose any of her nudity and I would also block her body with mine (to hide her from the cameras). I would also say out loud, things like "We're so boring, no one would bother watching us"
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3. I once knew an elderly resident who believed he was Jesus and also a tree. We called him Treesus
He was dying because every time they gave him water, he would let it burble out of his mouth to water his roots
The DON brought in a very religious member of the admin staff to try and convince Treesus to swallow liquid
He began discussing the Bible with the resident and referred to him as "Mr Smith". Treesus replied very indignantly "Son who are you calling Mr Smith? I'm the King of Kings"
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4. Once I knew a resident named Fanny who was schizophrenic and had tertiary syphilis. She had caught it from having sex or being raped in a mental institution. When many were closed down in Florida, they just dumped the people wherever
She would have periods where she felt like and acted like a baby and we would treat her as such. She was black and deathly afraid of Asians. She would also have periods where she'd experience war flashbacks and act like a kamikaze fighter pilot, though she had definitely never been in the army
My favorite hallucination of hers was a talking cat named Dishrag. He would follow her around and beg for money. I liked it when she'd talk in his cat voice for me
She used to tell me a story of how she left an abusive husband and escaped with her kids. I found out later that was all a fantasy, though she called them the same names and gave the same story for years
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5. We had a resident who was black and female. We got a black male nurse and the resident immediately accused him of raping her and would do so loudly whenever she saw him. "That's the nigga what raped me!"
It was honestly very funny and he would power walk away with his hands in the air
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6. We had another black female resident who was convinced that "black male nurse" (another man and reoccurring character) was this guy named Walter that she knew from the ghetto. She talked to him like she hated him but had to love him because they were family
She liked to accuse him of being up to no good. Whenever she saw him with the medicine cart, she'd accuse him of having stole it
I've met a few people who halfway joke about the npc thing and being the only one really alive, but I've never met someone who actually took it seriously
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 30 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,202,302
7. Once I knew a resident named Billy who had a stroke and lost most of his verbal abilities. Afterwards he could only say "fuck "and "goddamm"
Interestingly, the way he would say these plus gestures made him a very effective communicator
The other residents would sometimes coach him to speak other words and it worked occasionally. Especially his name or the word no. But he would say them phonetically like an alien who was learning human speech but had never heard it
He was a very handsome guy and reminded me of the Marlboro man. I brought my nephew into the facility when he was around 3 to meet the patients and Billy was the only one he wasn't afraid of
I later found out that he had been in some Irish gang in his youth and he committed crimes related to it but in America
Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 2 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,202,344
I had paranoid delusional ocd and thought I was the antichrist, sold my to the devil to win at super Mario 3 slot machine in the toad house, was a werewolf, my dad was secretly a vampire, my mom was replaced by a clone/robot, believing that inanimate objects came to life and that if I lost anything I owned that I was a murderer horrible person, and many other things
Also horrible anxiety that woood result in my heart constantly missing beats and pounding in my chest
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8. I once had a coworker who was a physical therapy assistant. She was around 50, black and a good worker
About every year or slightly more, she would have a major mental health crisis
One time she had gone about two years without anything happening and we were all happy for her. But she was losing weight and she had never been overweight
Sadly, we found out that she believed that her kitchen was being haunted by glutton a demon that made her overweight. It led to another mental health hospital stay and we all mourned her setback with her
She also had an interesting way of letting us know she wasn't doing well mentally. She would leave notes in the break room about how she wasn't doing well but addressing them from a friend
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC (OP) triple-posted this 3 years ago, 8 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,202,438
I'm also going to use this thread to document end of life oddities
1. Once I knew a white elderly resident who was visited by kind, African American angels
She loved it and would often call me into the room in an attempt to share these positive experiences with me
Recently, I was reading about a woman who runs a hospice center that facilitates dignified end of life care for people and also records things she notices about people who are dying
Frequently dying people see kind entities that are nicknamed "friendlies" who visit during during their last time on earth. For some reason, white people tend to see black "friendlies"
That's interesting to me as I only heard of this years after knowing that particular resident
Anonymous J replied with this 3 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#1,202,475
@1,202,302 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Reminds me of Uncle Jimmy from S Town (limited series podcast that is like a work of art). He got shot and the bullet remains in his brain, limited vocabulary but still very expressive.
Ps: if you listen to S Town on Spotify
(and you definitely ABSOLUTELY should) go in knowing NOTHING. It's twisty turny.
> Reminds me of Uncle Jimmy from S Town (limited series podcast that is like a work of art). He got shot and the bullet remains in his brain, limited vocabulary but still very expressive. > > Ps: if you listen to S Town on Spotify > (and you definitely ABSOLUTELY should) go in knowing NOTHING. It's twisty turny. > >https://youtu.be/g2MGRl-UzEg
Anonymous J replied with this 3 years ago, 6 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#1,202,569
@previous (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Start with episode one. It's a limited series, only 7 episodes. It's basically a biography, but it didn't start that way and it wasn't supposed to be that. It's gold.