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 Disorders, Mutations and Gifts
Have Mercy
Posted: Jun 18 2006, 02:32 AM


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++ Disorders
Possible Clinical Disorders. Do not choose more than four and according to the descriptions, try to follow these disorders as closely as possible:

- Suicidal: The act of willfully ending one's own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act.

- Clinical Depression//Depression: In everyday language "depression" refers to any downturn in mood, which may be relatively transitory and perhaps due to something trivial. This is differentiated from Clinical depression which is marked by symptoms that last two weeks or more and are so severe that they interfere with daily living.

- Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): An ongoing pattern pattern of disobedient, hostile, and defiant behavior toward authority figures that goes beyond the bounds of normal childhood behavior.
+ Arguing with adults
+Losing temper
+Angry or resentful of others
+Actively defies adults requests or rules
+Negative attitude
+Blames others for their own mistakes or behaviors
+Seems touchy or easily annoyed by others
+Deliberately annoys others
+Acts spiteful or vindictive


- Anorexia: (Usually Depression goes with this if your character is anorexic) The decreased sensation of appetite. While the term in non-scientific publications is often used interchangably with one of its subtypes, anorexia nervosa, there are many possible causes for a decreased appetite, some of which may be harmless while others pose significant risk for the person.

- Bulemia: It is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by intentionally doing one or more of the following in order to compensate for the intake of the food and prevent weight gain:
+ Vomiting
+ Inappropriate use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics or other medication
+ Excessive exercising
+ Fasting
Source

- Alcoholic: A dependency on alcohol characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence and withdrawal symptoms, and tolerance (increasing difficulty of becoming drunk). Source

- Drug Addiction: The compulsive use of drugs, to the point where the user has no effective choice but to continue use.
Further Info:
Understand Addiction/Abuse

- Cutting: Injuring yourself on purpose by making scratches or cuts on your body with a sharp object - enough to break the skin and make it bleed - is called cutting. Cutting is a type of self-injury, or SI. Cutting is more common among girls, but guys sometimes self-injure, too. People may cut themselves on their wrists, arms, legs, or bellies. Some people self-injure by burning their skin with the end of a cigarette or lighted match.

- Nymphomania/Satyriasis: Human sexual behavior at levels high enough to be considered clinically significant. In males the disorder was called satyriasis.

- Pathological Liar: Common disorder often caused by low self-esteem and a need for attention. Often, the liar does not realize how often he or she is lying because it becomes second nature.

- Kleptomania: Compelled to steal things, generally things of little or no value, such as pens, decorative pins, or wall decorations. They are often unaware of performing the theft until some time later. Where the obsession leads to sexual arousal, the term kleptophilia is used. Kleptomania is different from shoplifting, or ordinary theft, because shoplifters and theft steal for monetary value, or to gain possessions with intention, while people with kleptomania don't necessarily steal things of personal value.

-Pyromania: Pyromania is an impulse to set fires. It involves deliberate and purposeful fire setting on at least two occasions. There is typically tension or heightened arousal prior to the act and gratification or relief afterward. The fire setting is not done for monetary gain or an expression of anger, vengeance, personal gain, or psychosis.

-Schizophrenia: A severe mental illness characterized by persistent defects in the perception or expression of reality. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia typically demonstrates grossly disorganized thinking, and may also experience delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the illness primarily affects cognition, it can also contribute to chronic problems with behavior or emotions.

-Depersonalization Disorder - Depersonalization is the experience of feelings of loss of a sense of reality. A sufferer feels that they have changed and the world has become less real — it is vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance. A sufferer is divorced from both the world and from their own identity and physicality. Often times the person who has experienced this disorder claims that life "feels like a movie, things seem unreal, or hazy."

-Bipolar Disorder - Bipolar disorder, also sometimes called manic-depressive disorder, is a mood disorder in which a person experiences episodes of mania without other etiologies to rule out the diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Also, possible, and more commonly known, is to have extreme shifts in mood between depression and manic euphoria.

-False Memory - A false memory is a memory of an event that did not happen or is a distortion of an event that did occur as determined by externally corroborated facts.

-Anxiety Disorder:Anxiety disorder is a blanket term covering several different forms of abnormal anxiety, fear, phobia and nervous condition, that come on suddenly and prevent pursuing normal daily routines.

-Avoidant Personality Disorder: Avoidant personality disorder (sometimes abbreviated APD or AvPD), or anxious personality disorder, is a personality disorder characterised by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation. People with avoidant personality disorder often consider themselves to be socially inept or personally unappealing, and avoid social interaction for fear of being ridiculed or humiliated.

-Exhibitionism:Exhibitionism is the psychological need of a human being to exhibit naked parts of the body to other people — that is, parts of the body that would otherwise always be covered by clothes. Usually, this involves the female breasts or the genitalia or buttocks of either gender. Exhibitionism does not necessarily imply alterations of the psychiatric condition of the average, everyday individual, although sometimes this occurs, and can be threatening to those exposed, as in indecent exposure).

-Sleep Terror Disorder:A night terror, also known as sleep terror or pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia sleep disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes abruptly from the fourth stage of sleep, with waking usually accompanied by gasping, moaning, or screaming. It is often impossible to fully awaken the person, and after the episode the subject normally settles back to sleep without waking. Sometimes the night terror can be recalled by the subject.

-Munchausen:Munchausen syndrome is a form of psychological disorder known as a factitious disorder (the term "Munchausen syndrome" is sometimes used, incorrectly, to refer to any form of factitious disorder). Sufferers mimic real diseases, presenting a great problem to themselves and their healthcare professionals. The disorder is named after a literary figure, Baron Munchausen, a real person who was portrayed in fiction as a famous teller of tall tales.

-Pica:Pica is an appetite for non-foods (e.g., coal, soil, chalk) or an abnormal appetite for some things that may be considered foods, such as food ingredients (e.g., flour, raw potato, starch). In order for these actions to be considered pica, they must persist for more than 1 month, at an age where eating dirt, clay, etc. is considered developmentally inappropriate.

-Dementia: Dementia is progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Particularly affected areas may be memory, attention, language and problem solving, although particularly in the later stages of the condition, affected persons may be disoriented in time (not knowing what day, week, month or year it is), place (not knowing where they are) and person (not knowing who they are).

-Multiple Personality Disorder :MPD is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. (http://skepdic.com/mpd.html - Site I found this on)

-- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: A psychological disorder affecting individuals who have experienced or witnessed profoundly traumatic events or emotional trauma, such as torture, murder, rape, natural disasters, or wartime combat, outside the range of normal human experience, characterized by recurrent flashbacks of the traumatic event, nightmares, irritability, anxiety, fatigue, forgetfulness, and social withdrawal.


!!If there is one that is not here that you think should be added, post and let me know!!

++ Mutations (Post here to add more)

-Angel: A 98% human, 2% bird hybrid. They look completely human except for their wings, which can tuck neatly beneath their shoulder blades and become invisible to people. They all can fly, though some can read minds, fly at supersonic speeds and sense abilities and emotions through their sense of touch.

-Eraser: A 50% human, 50% wolf recombinant. They appear human, but when they are ordered to or want to, they can morph into vicious, blood thirsty wolves. Of course, these wolves stand on two feet, equipped with fur, fangs, claws, and even some very dangerous shot guns. They are one level below the Gifted as guards, but the Erasers are normally sent after mutants instead of regular patients.

++ Gifts (Post here to Add)

-Empathy: The ability to sense others' emotions at will, and possibly their surface thoughts in extreme cases.

-Shadow Sight: The ability to see events occurring a limited distance away

-Mental Barrier: The ability to either create a shield around one’s self or their mind

-Telekinesis: The ability to move objects one with one’s mind through concentrations. Can be used to redirect flying objects as well as lift heavy objects that would normally be unmovable by normal means.

-Psi wave: The ability to assault another’s mind, possibly used for interrogation or torture for those with stronger abilities.

-Mental Persuasion: The ability to send subliminal messages to another’s brain, causing them to believe or agree with something. Does not work on everyone.

-Aerokinesis: The ability to create and manipulate wind.

-Pyrokinesis: The ability to create and manipulate heat and flames.

-Electrokinesis: yadda yadda yadda, electricity.

-Hydrokinesis: The ability to control water and other liquids.

-Vitakinesis: The ability to sense and heal injury and illness.

-Biopathy: The ability to comunicate with plants and animals.

Soul Travel: The ability to leave one's body and posses objects and people, though often with the person's knowledge of being possed and rarely with the abilty of full-control over the person.
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