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A SCI-FI PARANORMAL WEB SERIES
BENNIGHT BROTHERS
Mental illnesses, disorders and differences tend to be very misunderstood by the general public. This is a list of mental illnesses Suffered by the Bennight Brothers and Rey Kaylan and a widely believed stereotype of each one. There are other mental disorders world wide and as we prgoress through our series we will be shedding light on all of these disorders.
Diseases of the Mind
Bipolar Disorder (Carter) (Carter
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (Brice)
General Public Opinion: Manic episodes are enjoyable times of great creativity.
Fact: People who suffer from bipolar disorder have alternating periods of depression and an elevated mood known as mania. Mania usually involves feelings of happiness, energy, inappropriately high self-esteem, and lack of inhibition or self-control. This can allow creativity to come more easily, if a manic person will just use their ideas, without considering how good or bad they are. Some artists or writers with manic depression actually do not want treatment, because their manic episodes are so useful to them, even if the depression is miserable.
On the other hand, there are a lot of negative aspects of mania, like a shortened attention span and a lack of sleep. The lack of inhibitions can cause spending sprees that the person cannot afford, inappropriate social behavior, or dangerously reckless actions. Mania can also cause irritability and a short temper, as much as it can create pleasant feelings, and it may impair a person’s life as much as depression does.
In addition, most people with bipolar disorder aren’t unusually creative in their manic phases, if they are not naturally inclined to be creative in the first place. (It might be that manic depression is just more noticeable and interesting in artists and writers, causing us to hear about them more often.) Plus, not everyone with bipolar disorder actually gets full-fledged mania. They can be diagnosed with the disorder if they have episodes of depression alternating with episodes of positive feelings that are not as extreme as mania. Like a lot of disorders, there are various severities of problems that all earn the diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Schizophrenia (Warner) (Wa Wrner
General Public Opinion: Schizophrenic people hear voices in their heads..
Fact: Contrary to what a lot of people believe, not all people with schizophrenia hear voices in their heads. Auditory hallucinations are very common in schizophrenic people, but they are more likely to hear voices coming from some object outside of their body than inside their mind. Plus, not everyone with schizophrenia experiences the same symptoms.
They may have hallucinations (actually seeing or hearing things that don’t exist), delusions (believing unrealistic ideas), disordered thoughts, lack of affect (no appearance of emotions), or, in catatonic schizophrenia, even a lack of desire to move at all. Schizophrenia is a complicated disorder with a wide range of possible symptoms. (Note that alternate personalities is not one of the symptoms. We already covered that disorder.)
General Public Opinion: People with OCD are always obsessed with the danger of germs, and usually are very particular about neatness.
Fact: I can’t count how many times I’ve heard people say that they’re OCD because they’re very neat or careful about cleanliness. Most people seem to think that people with OCD are neat freaks and/or germophobes, not realizing that it’s a lot more complicated than that.
OCD is an anxiety disorder with two characteristics. First, people with OCD have recurring unwanted thoughts (obsessions), usually of something they find disturbing or not at all in their character. It’s common to have an obsession about germs or contamination, or of not having properly locked their doors so burglars can’t get in, but it’s also common to have thoughts about something terrible happening to their families, about hurting or even killing someone, doing something forbidden in a religion they strongly believe in, or any other undesirable idea.
Second, these people think that doing some certain ritual will get rid of the danger. It could be washing hands, keeping their house in perfect order, checking that the door is locked, thinking certain words, avoiding odd numbers, or just about anything imaginable. Doing this compulsion doesn’t make the thoughts go away for very long, so the ritual is repeated.
Not everyone who has OCD cares about germs, or does the rituals that we usually hear about. Not everyone even has compulsions an observer would actually notice, since a lot of them are mental. And perfectionism or neatness? While some people with OCD are perfectionists, this is more associated with another disorder.
If you liked the first entry, you’ll love this: the disorder is called Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, and it’s actually a different thing. One major distinction is that people with OCPD consider their habits to be part of themselves and desirable, while people with OCD are often very disturbed by their disorder.
Multiple Personality Disorder (Rey)
General Public Opinion: "Oh Multiple personality disroder isn't real, it's all in their head". People often confuse Disassociated Identity Disorder with Schizophrenia.
Fact: Dissociative identity disorder is a mental condition that’s interesting on many levels. Perhaps most intriguing of all is how some sufferers not only exhibit personality and behavior changes as they switch between their different identities, but some also have measurable physiological variations between each persona. For instance, one of a patient’s personalities may need eyeglasses and another won’t. Or, one identity might be diabetic and another will have perfect health. In such cases, it isn’t simply a matter of the patients thinking they need eyeglasses or insulin, their bodies actually go through legitimate alterations, such as differences in intraocular pressure or blood sugar levels.
In one case, published by the American Psychiatric Press, a doctor noted how medications prescribed to a dissociative identity disorder patient had different effects depending on what “personality” took the drug. For example, when a tranquilizer was given to the person’s childish persona, it made the individual sleepy and relaxed. However, when the adult personality was administered the same drug it made him anxious and confused. Similar results were found with other patients and with a variety of different medications. Doctors even noticed visibly apparent traits, like lazy eye, would come and go depending on which personality was present.
This phenomenon is especially fascinating since no one, including the patients, is claiming mysticism is at work. On the contrary, it is a genuine example of the mind altering the body.