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Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-30 13:20:47


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Case #7: Fridge (Field work)

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3641853

Today I encountered this poor fellow, undergoing an episode of monomania.

The subject of the subject's idée fixe is a woman named Rosa^1. Rosa enjoys the company of her acquaintance Fridge, but this fondness is requited a hundredfold. My initial suspicion resulted by the inappropriate reaction of his partial separation from his obsession.

My preliminary diagnosis was confirmed upon witnessing his further actions. Fridge pursues the girl, to the detriment of his closer relations, determinedly and unabashedly. Other areas of his existence are neglected and ultimately eradicated.

She is, understandably, alarmed by the exacerbation of his attentions, and attempts to evade him at all costs. When his approaches are rebuffed, his response is wholly inappropriate and noxious. He even refers to her as a 'trophy'.

This is as much a matter for law and order as psychology, and, accordingly, I have alerted the relevant authorities. If he does not overcome his mania independently, it could mutate into fully-fledged erotomania, and the ensuing harassment would be intolerable for all concerned.

^1 A pseudonym.

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3641979

I continued my observations at a greater distance. The fluctuation of mood he experiences when he is given first positive and then neutral attention by Rosa is commensurate with the victims of other mania such as bipolar disorder.

From his comment at 11:55:51 in my log, especially, it is clear that his entire existence is staked on contact with the object of his desires.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-30 15:08:26


awesomely bitchtastic beta 2.o
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fridge was already showing his affection for Rosa in the previous game!

1)IN the first few lines, he asks Rosa to be given back to him
2)He says to Rosa he's 'coming for you sweetheart'
3)Fridge tells Rosa he will be gentle with her. ewww

Fridge, you disgusting boy!

heres the proof: look at the public chat: http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3641853
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-30 15:11:47


awesomely bitchtastic beta 2.o
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btw fridge, the part about me(nike) being at agressive's house playing warlight and having tea with him at the same time is fake. :P
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-30 15:31:08


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Indeed, there is a wealth of evidence for my diagnosis, I omitted a large part of it from my case notes to spare his dignity.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-30 17:17:11


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Dear Ozymandias Melancholia,

I have come across an interesting character of which I need you to psychologically analyze closely. I've played many games with him, and he seems very vulnerable to certain tactics. Upon closer analysis, I find that he is shallow in thought and whimpers into a corner when defeated. He considers himself a king of a certain template, of which his insecurities work to his advantage. To this date, not many people can defeat him on it. I wonder if this template is a platform for his own deeper psychological issues? I feel myself shiver when encountering him on this template. He swells into a monster and attacks without abandon. What's odd is that I have not encountered him act like this outside of this template. No, I would say that he is like that of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde! Perhaps worse, the duality of his persona is frightening.

References: http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3634844
http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3582043
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-31 01:56:20


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Lolowut, I have analysed the games you have shown, and can see no basis for your claims.

However, it appears that he is suffering from 'ozymandias melancholia', a kind of philosophical depression, a sort of weltschmerz, specifically related to mono no aware. It is the morose sense of futility felt when one considers the immutable transience of everything in the Universe.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.


Although the famed poem from which the name of the affliction is derived concerns a powerful person, Ozymandias's yearning for permanence is eminently relatable. Moreover, it is his civilisation as a whole which no longer remains; nor will ours. It is this inevitibility which fuels the pathos.

It may be argued that it is a inherent pessimism and obsession with death which drives this view of the world, but if the perception is accurate, could it be described as a pathology? Hence, the only thing wrong with the prospective patient is the unsubdued cognitive dissonance that this schizophrenic world creates, and the neuroticism produced therefrom.

In summation, there is nothing wrong with O.M., because what is wrong with him is simply what is wrong with our world.

And that answers the question of the meaning behind my username. Wait, that wasn't the question? Oh yes, I recall now.

Dr. Lol O. Wut, I am afraid I must revoke your license to psychologize. You need to work on your definitions of abnormality.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-31 22:40:25


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Group Session: Heyheuhei and Ryan

With the assistance of two confederates I confronted Heyheuhei and Ryan's fear of commitment. The therapy was unsuccessful.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2012-12-31 22:40:46


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Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-01 04:13:18


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Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-04 00:37:32


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Thank you to my patients for your understanding while I was on holiday. Fortunately, only 7 of you attempted suicide in my absence.

Case #8: Ironheart

This young man brought himself to me in a period of despair. I am glad that he had the perspective to realise the import of the drain which he had begun to circle, before it encircled him.

The patient engaged in therapy on the pretense that he had started to fail in a competitive sphere of his life. He found these failures bewildering and queried the psychological genesis of this incongruent behaviour. He recounted to me several series of events which had occured in the near past.

In the first, he is reticent to take a useful opportunity when it is presented to him, and relinquishes it to a close rival. In the second, he engages half-heartedly in a conflict, before becoming entirely disinterested in maintaining his position. Finally, I am described an episode where the subject cannot will himself to move.

Though it was not apparent to him, the diagnosis of depression was a routine one given the obvious symptoms of low self-esteem (he feels undeserving of success, self-sabotages to gain control over the failures which he believes are inevitable, is pre-occupied with and magnifies these failures), anhedonia, and psychomotor retardation.

Though the treatment is swift and effective, many sufferers are unwilling to seek help. Gladly, Ironheart is not one of these, and was comprehensively cured. After discussing his feelings, the patient broke down, at which point I applied my palm to his face with some severity, as outlined in Professor Igneus J Schmidtson's Approaches to the Mentally Weak. I explained to him how much of a disappointment he must be to his family, with continuous detailed examples of his inadequacy. I finished with an experimental technique I am developing, in which I tell the patient that I cannot stand to listen to their incessant whining any longer, then give them the bill. As the patient exits I mention that that they are a crybaby, and are crying like a little girl.

No conclusive research has been done on this therapy, and I have no way of contacting Ironheart at this point, so I'll just assume that he is fine now.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-04 21:58:01


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24/51 posts made by me. :( bump
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-04 22:53:16


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It seems the doctor is suffering from loneliness and depression,he should get that checked.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-06 23:01:37


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Case #9: Beelzebub

This patient, suffering from multiple personality disorder, or 'Fight Club disease' to experts, was sent to me by a local law enforcement officer. As a result of his illness, he had committed various crimes, ranging from fraud and impersonation of a police car, to serial genocide and receiving anal sex in Cincinnati.

I spoke about possible treatments with the group of vigilantes who brought the patient to justice. The people's militia wanted to burn the patient at the stake, believing he had communed with the devil, and was a witch. I spent many hours campaigning for a more humane treatment, and eventually they relented and agreed to put the patient in the stocks. This therapy for the criminally weird has stood the test of time, especially amongst the more resentful schools of psychology. Theoretically, the shame incurred in the patient will prevent them from committing further deleterious acts.

A crowd assembled in the town square and we locked the vict--, um, the patient, in the stocks. Fruits and vegetables were then applied to the patient's face. It remains to be seen whether the patient has full overcome his illness.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-07 22:34:08


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fully*

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3648535

Students, please take home and study this example of paranoid schizophrenia.
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-09 20:34:59


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Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-12 12:29:31


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I might have a case for you:

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer?GameID=3703140
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-12 21:42:24


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This is a more a case for a proctologist. I am a bit of an amateur proctologist myself, so I did what I could for the patient.

I won't go into details here, since I try to keep my psychiatry and proctology patients seperate as much as possible. I will, however, offer the observation that it is somewhat unusual to require upwards of ten minutes for a single excretion session.

Incidentally, I highly reccomend the freedom provided by laptops and wi-fi.

Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-14 22:31:43


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The doctor is out, and will be for some time.

Keep in mind that there are many techniques you can use to improve your mental health which do not involve professional help, for example heavy drinking, or pretending to commit suicide to get attention.

Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-14 23:23:28


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coke also helps








coca cola, what WERE you thinking? ...
Ask Ozymandias Melancholia: 2013-01-19 00:49:55


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Are you still on retirement?
Trolli boi is back and he does need big big help.
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