undiagnosed mental disorders of WoT

[hippie-joe]

rand- obviously has multipule personality dissorder

moridin- bipolar

mat- audio halucenations of dice rolling around in his head

lan- simi-suicidal tendancies

perrin- he's fighting the urge to go completely animalistic, and turning into a wolf mentally

what else is there? i'm sure there's a lot more...

[Terez]

I'm sure Bela could give us a good rundown.

[Brita]

Lanfear is narcissistic

Masema is a megalomaniac

Moggy is agoraphobic

[Belazamon]

Faile is insufferable.

What? It's a condition. Honest.

[Terez]

Oh come on, she's alright lately.

[Nazbaque]

Rand has claustrophobia as well as MPD and halucinations

Min has halucinations

Alivia has Stockholm syndrome

Nynaeve has involuntary muscle thingy

Demandred has the Oidipus complex

Aginor... well who knows

[Jonai]

So basically, everyone's fucked up.

[Belazamon]

So basically, everyone's fucked up.

Except Thom. He's just decrepit.

[Jonai]

Thom's sexy. What about Jain Farstrider? Amnesia?

[Davian93]

Thom's sexy. What about Jain Farstrider? Amnesia?

Probably a whole host of issues...possible stockholm syndrome from his time with Ishy, PTSD from that same experience, chronic depression from witnessing the destruction of Malkier...

[Weird Harold]

Except Thom. He's just decrepit.
Thom's a compulsive extrovert -- although he has given up the gleeman's cloak and stopped trying to be the center of attention all the time since he met Rand.

[hippie-joe]

yeah that's what i was lookin for keep em comming. lol

[Weird Harold]

yeah that's what i was lookin for keep em comming. lol

Are you by chance looking to see if every character can be classed as an undiagnosed mental problem?

[GonzoTheGreat]

Fain may be sane. Sure, he thinks everyone is out to get him, but he is also entirely correct about that.

[Mat is Better]

Hmm...
Egwene suffers from Gender Identity Disorder :D

[Nazbaque]

You mean she is a gay man in a woman's body or something MIB?

[GonzoTheGreat]

She is a woman, which means she's mental, disorderly and mentally disordered. Or perhaps that's just because she is Egwene.

[Oatman]

All channelers are addicts.
Lan suffers from a very severe case of a very serious condition, known as 'pussy whipped'. Loial suffers this to a lesser extent.

[Brita]

lol!

[FelixPax]

All channelers are addicts.


Um...isn't Mat a reformed sex addict? :D

[Oatman]

Um...isn't Mat a reformed sex addict?

I think he'd count as a former sex slave.

[hippie-joe]

Are you by chance looking to see if every character can be classed as an undiagnosed mental problem?

that wu\ould be funny wouldn't it?

i just find it interesting

i agree, everyone that can channel is an addict.

lol

[GonzoTheGreat]

Based on the descriptions of how they like being "complete", the sul'dam are also addicted.

[Oatman]

Based on the descriptions of how they like being "complete", the sul'dam are also addicted

And sul'dam are, technically, channelers.

[GonzoTheGreat]

Well, not quite. They could be, but I think it is more accurate to say they are touchers.

They do not channel the One Power, they merely touch it.

[Oatman]

Well, not quite. They could be, but I think it is more accurate to say they are touchers.

They do not channel the One Power, they merely touch it.

That's kind of like saying voyeurism isn't sexual deviance because they aren't actually having sex, they are just watching.

[GonzoTheGreat]

Pretty accurate, yes. The difference may be, though, that the average voyeur doesn't have an eager damane around when you're insulting him.

[Jonai]

You could call them Sadists too.

[Crispin's Crispian]

I don't think I'd call Demandred's problem Oedipal. You could sort of argue some screwed up Oedipal thing with Rand--he's blind, he can't kill women and he has no father.

Can you believe people are bringing kids into that world? Has no one thought of the children?!

BTW, Aviendha has a severely low self-esteem, and Berelain is an exhibitionist.

[GonzoTheGreat]

LTT may be entirely sane, considering his circumstances. At least, his reaction to those circumstances could be classified as rational.

[Terez]

LTT may be entirely sane, depending on whether Rand is in a frame of mind to do the right thing and ignore his crazy thoughts (example: must not kill Taim!) or do something stupid and ignore his rational thoughts (example: Callandor in Altara). Fixed.

[tworiverswoman]

Hmm...
Egwene suffers from Gender Identity Disorder :DEgwene doesn't have HALF the issue with this that Balthamel, aka Aran'gar, aka Halima, has...

As I recall, he's gotten so used to being female, even though he still dreams of some of the things he used to do when he was a womanizer back in the AoL, he's wearing the Halima body...


Elaida has some of that megalomania, I do believe. Not to mention some Control issues.

[GonzoTheGreat]

Oh, yes, Elaida is what Egwene is aspiring to be.

[Jonai]

Something not quite right about theorylanders diagnosing mental illness in others. I'm pretty sure sanity is a bar to membership. :P

[Terez]

Something not quite right about theorylanders diagnosing mental illness in others. I'm pretty sure sanity is a bar to membership. :P
They say it takes one to know one...

[Mat is Better]

I don't really think Egwene had GID. I just wanted to pin something on her because I don't like her.

She actually seems entirely sane to me, but she is very naive.

[Jonai]

They say it takes one to know one...

I'm as sane as Rand.

[Terez]

I'm as sane as Rand.
That's not saying much, dear.